From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!tgd
Newsgroups: net.books
Title: Re: "The Stand"
Article-I.D.: floyd.1510
Posted: Fri May 13 08:53:11 1983
Received: Thu May 19 03:50:07 1983
References: floyd.1472 brunix.2570

Responses to meta-discussion on
"The Stand" and screen adaptations
in general:

The Stand has precious little character development to 
make up for its lack of substance.  I don't consider
the use of excruciatingly detailed biographies to intro-
duce each character necessary or interesting.(the sledge
hammer school of literary symbolism).  Try putting that
much unnecessary detail on the screen, and you'll have
an audience fighting their way to the door to try and
catch "Trashdance" (all action and no characterization)
instead.  Besides, if Richard Gere played one
of those parts, he'd ignore the screenplay and just shrug
his shoulders meaningfully once or twice to show how sen-
sitive and tormented he is.

The screenplay to Satyricon is adapted from a short narrative 
poem in Petronius' text, and not from the "whole fragmented
story".  I stand (so to speak) by my statement that it has
little to do literally with the original.


			tgd