If you have one ounce of credibility beyond your own personal beliefs, you can provide some objective and authoritative support for the imposition of this standard of adaption.
You cannot do it.
You are attempting to rewrite the rules of common sense.
You want to judge the characteristics and success of one thing by the characteristics and success of a different thing. That is not only unfair but is intellectually dishonest.
I think you and davem have had it your way here for so long that you really do not know what is happening. I probably am a nuisance as others have claimed. Those who bring up disturbing facts and refuse to accept the dogmatic irrational beliefs of a small sub group are always a nuisance.
If you do not like my characterization of slavish adherence, then remove those words. Allow me to do it for you. Now we have
Again, yet again, for the umpteenth time, I ask you not for your opinion on this standard, but please show me where some other objective authority on film says that faithfulness of a books adaption into film is the way we measure a films success
You do not like the standard accepted by the film industry of box office revenues.
You do not like the standard accepted by the film industry of reviews of professional critics.
You do not like the standard accepted by the film industry of professional peer awards.
All these are established and accepted in the film business.
If you want to substitute something that is completely different, something that attempts to completely rewrite the rules of defining success, the obligation is upon you to support that with objective and authoritative opinion other than your own.
I am not giving you my opinion of what constitutes success and quality. I am citing the standard and widely accepted measurements of what is taken for gospel within the film industry. I am defining my arguments by what is accepted for the industry.
The onus is now upon you and your like to come up with an objective and authoritative sources to support this ridiculous substitution.
Of course, you have already said the most important thing here. You cannot.
By your own words:
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You do not judge a cinderblock by the characteristics and measurements that would apply to an orange. You do not judge a symphony by the characteristics and measurements that would apply to a building design. You do not judge a film by the characteristics and measurements that would apply to a book.
And if you are then going to tell me that you are not judging a book or a film but an adaption, that has already been done by professionals who know film and know writing. They are called the Screenwriters division of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. They nominated two of the three LOTR films for Best Adapted Screenplay. ROTK won and was given the award.
These are both professional writers and people in the film industry. And you are........ who exactly that you are substituting your opinion for theirs?