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Post by Hurdy Gurdy Man on Feb 13, 2021 5:37:06 GMT
The screenplays of Jaws and Jurassic Park have one significant thing in common. Not that they are both adapted from bestselling novels, not that they are both directed by the same person, but that they take source material full of unlikeable characters and transform them into likeable and sympathetic people.
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Post by mgmarshall on Feb 13, 2021 5:49:20 GMT
I think a more worthwhile question is should A Clockwork Orange have adapted the final chapter of the novel? I've always thought that that chapter really undermines the whole point of the book. It's as if Anthony Burgess wanted to raise all these thought-provoking questions about violence, sadism, juvenile delinquency, and the nature of free will; and the when he couldn't think of an easy, black-and-white answer to them, just decided to shrug his shoulders and say "Ah, I'm sure those kooky kids will just grow out of it eventually..."
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Post by mgmarshall on Feb 13, 2021 6:00:31 GMT
Ooooh, hey! I just realized, if you wanna see Jaws with a mafia subplot you totally can. Just check out Bruno Mattei's Cruel Jaws (aka Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws. No, really.), a movie that's so close to the original that IMDb still gives Peter Benchley an erroneous writing credit for it.
Anywho, in Cruel Jaws, the mayor-equivalent's son gets eaten, and so he gets some mobster goons to go out on a boat and try to kill the shark themselves. It does not go well.
No adultery subplot, though. Instead of that, the movie opts to include some crap about the mayor-equivalent trying to shut down a local waterpark.
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