Dumbing it down

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Formendacil

The effect would not have been just a more ACCURATE movie, but a BETTER movie.

Better in what way? For whom? By whose standards?

As for accuracy, well the films clearly tell a different story from that told in the book with different characters. They are therefore entirely accurate on their own terms.

Alas, though, I suspect that Rimbaud is right. It would be nigh on impossible to hold a discussion on this Forum about the qualities (whether positive or negative) of the films purely as films without it descending into a comparison with the books given the prevailing opinion (with which I do not wholly agree) that they would have been better as films had they more closely mirrored the book.