OT: Lost in Translation

I'm glad to hear you liked it. I was curious. Will probably have to wait for the video though.

I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

Lost in the dark...as usual.

Lol! It's a movie.

The movie - Lost in Translation.

Won heaps of Bafta's last night....

Mavis (who hasn't seen it yet)

I'm pulling for Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)!

Celine

I thought it sounded really good but haven't seen it yet.

My parents went to see it. Then my dad read the book. He said they are a

*little* different:

The movie is about an actor who goes to Japan. The book was about an archeologist who goes to China.

Apparently the original plot wasn't glamorous enough.

marisa2

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I really do think that kind of chaging of a book and still using the title should be considered either false advertising or plagerism. Even if it's OK with the author, I think a change should have to be made to indicate that they are two different stories. Just like Disney does when it changes the ending on the "classics" they remake.

Tina

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :

]I really do think that kind of chaging of a book and still using the title ]should be considered either false advertising or plagerism. Even if it's OK ]with the author, I think a change should have to be made to indicate that ]they are two different stories. Just like Disney does when it changes the ]ending on the "classics" they remake.

**smile** Clint Eastwood had lunch with Michael Connelly when he was purchasing Michael's "Blood Work". Eastwood told Connelly straight out during the luncheon that, "I'm buying your book, but you may not recognize it as your book by the time the movie comes out. You get the money with that understanding." Connelly decided it was not a problem and accepted the money.

those of us into mysteries awaited the coming of the movie. it really was a dynamite book. and Eastwood could still carry off the role of the main character [although it was a little stretch, when you remember just how old Eastwood really is!]

imagine our total shock to find out that while the movie did indeed greatly resemble the book . . . HE CHANGED THE MURDERER!!!!!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

(Jewelry) newest creations: ----------- The measure of the menace of a man is not what hardware he carries, but what ideas he believes.-- Jeff Jordan

Yes. From the point of view of the consumer (me), if I want to buy a product, X title by Y author, as advertised, I don't want to get Z product. It's one thing to sell a story to a movie maker. That's the writer's perogative. But does it give the studio the right to sell advertise it to me as the same work and then give me something different.

Tina

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :

]But does it give the studio the right to sell advertise it to ]me as the same work and then give me something different.

evidently, it depends on what the contract says.

hollywood - go figure!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

(Jewelry) newest creations: ----------- The measure of the menace of a man is not what hardware he carries, but what ideas he believes.-- Jeff Jordan