[D-community-offtopic] Why movies differ from books

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 23:55 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think I may have found the reason why so many Hollywood movies are so
> different from the books. 
> 
> In the preface of Cyrus Brady's book Secret Service, he has this to say:
> 
> 	Once upon a time a novel of mine was turned into a play. The
> 	dramatist who prepared the story for stage production sent me a
> 	copy of his efforts toward that end. About the only point of
> 	resemblance between his production and mine was the fact that
> 	they both bore the same title, the hero in each had the same
> 	name, and the action in both cases took place on this earth.
> 
> 	I was a young author then, and timid. I ventured humbly to
> 	enquire why the drama differed so entirely from the novel; and
> 	this ingenious, I might almost say ingenuous, explanation was
> 	vouchsafed me:
> 	“Well, to tell you the truth, after I had read a chapter or two
> 	of your book, I lost it, and I just wrote the play from my own
> 	imagination.”
> 
> :-)
> 
> BTW, you can read the book online or download it as an ebook yourself at:
> http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44659
> 

Crumb killed Fritz after it was made into a film by Bakshi.