{"id":2240,"date":"2010-01-12T18:11:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T01:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/01\/pulp-cinema\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T18:11:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T01:11:58","slug":"pulp-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/12\/pulp-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulp Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Houston Chronicle<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

There’s an art to translating books into movies<\/h1>\n

By MAGGIE GALEHOUSE STAFF WRITER<\/h3>\n

T<\/em>he Lovely Bones<\/em><\/span>\u00a0arrives in mov<\/span>ie theaters Friday. Fans of Alice Sebold’s book will see it in a new light: as part of an old Hollywood tradition that turns beloved books into major motion pictures.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a tradition with mixed results.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we deal with adaptation movies, we always compare the movie to the book,\u201d says Karen Fang, who teaches film studies and literature at the University of Houston. \u201cBut that’s not the way the film industry thinks about the issue. The industry is only interested in what’s going to make money.\u201d<\/p>\n

To studios, adaptations are presold commodities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s the pitch,\u201d Fang says. \u201cA filmmaker says, \u2018I want to makeLord of the Rings<\/em><\/span>. It will be expensive, but there are millions of Tolkienites out there.’\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n

We all know how that turned out. And that example brings up a good point.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe movie business today is being transformed by Computer Generated Imagery,\u201d or CGI, Fang says. \u201cThe big arena for adaptation isn’t adult movies but movies based on children’s books.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0Narnia<\/em><\/span>\u00a0series by C.S. Lewis.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at The Chron<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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