Novel Into Film
F you go to almost any picture theatre that is showing a film based on a popular novel, you will hear comments on all sides from people who have read the book; and possibly you will echo their remarks: "Oh, they’ve changed it. Why do they always have to mess about with things? Why can’t they give us the story just as it is in the book?" In Novel Into Film, a BBG talk to be heard from 2YC on Tuesday, July 29 at 8.0 p.m., L. A. G. Strong discusses this question. An author and journalist who has written many novels, poems and other publications, he has helped to make films from his own stories and also, as he puts it, "mutilated the stories of other novelists as well." He does not defend everything done by the film studios, but after dealing with 26 film scripts he says he feels competent to "look at the job without prejudice on one side or the other." Explaining why a film never follows a novel exactly, he gives some of the financial and other reasons that govern the making of a film from a book; and to illustrate the powerful influence sometimes exerted by stars, he includes a brief history of the film he helped to make from one of his own novels, The Brothers.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 988, 25 July 1958, Page 31
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226Novel Into Film New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 988, 25 July 1958, Page 31
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