At 11:21 AM 5/16/02 +0000, you wrote:
> > Obviously there is John Huston's brilliant
screen
> >adaptation of 'The Maltese Falcon' (his
directorial debut, btw), one of the
> >seminal "Noir" films.
>It struck me when I was re-reading the book lately
that the script is so
>close to the original that it almost doesn't count as
"adaptation". In
>fact - I have a very visual imagination - when I
tried to read the book I
>found it impossible to visualise anything except in
terms of the film.
>Unusual - to put it mildly.
Hi Marianne,
Actually, isn't that the idea behind the most pure sort of
screenplay? Huston did cut several portions of the book, but
he kept the dialogue intact, and Hammett's description,
setting and pacing truly lend themselves to a screen
adaptation.
Brian
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