Jim,
Re your comments below:
> In any event, I doubt that any of us is
interested
> merely in changing your
> mind. I think the impetus on my side of
this
> discussion is to make it
> clearer that some of your statements are still
up
> for debate, and that to
> the reader/viewer who hasn't experienced TLG,
that
> his mileage on viewing
> the film may well vary from yours, which you
have,
> at the very least,
> implied was the final word, that any who
disagree
> are wrong, plain and
> simple.
If I have an opinion, and I nearly always do, I don't have it
because I believe it's wrong. I have it because I think it's
right. It follows then that I MUST think that anyone who
disagrees with that opinion is wrong. That's the point of
having an opinion.
You disagree with me. Therefore you must think I'm wrong,
plain and simple. So what? I'll defend my positions when
they're challenged, but I won't lose sleep over people
thinking differently than I do.
Why, then, if you're secure in your own point of view, should
it bother you if I think YOU'RE wrong, plain and
simple?
> And they always say that when the film DOES,
in
> fact,
> ruin the book."
>
> "Does, in fact," you say. Well, I
respectfully
> contend that Chandler's Long
> Goodbye is not ruined as a book and
reading
> experience, even if one has seen
> and hated Altman's film. I experience
them
> differently. If I wanted to
> experience them exactly the same, I'd eliminate
one
> from the equation and
> read/view the other twice.
I think it was clear what was meant by "ruin the book," in
this context. It means that the adaptation has, in some
sense, betrayed the source material. So the author of the
source material has to console himself with the knowedlge
that his book, itself, is intact, and that the experience of
reading that book is not vitiated by the movie's
existence.
And the authors who say that always say that when they think
the film betrayed their book.
To suggest that I was saying that Chandler's THE LONG GOODBYE
is no longer worth reading thanks to Altman is to
deliberately misinterpret my statement.
JIM DOHERTY
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