Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!andrews From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews) Newsgroups: net.books,net.sf-lovers Subject: Books into movies Message-ID: <18@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 19:52:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.18 Posted: Mon Sep 23 19:52:59 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 24-Sep-85 00:43:47 EDT References: <497@linus.UUCP> <1839@mnetor.UUCP> <527@linus.UUCP> <273@cisden.UUCP> <692@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> <278@cisden.UUCP> Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews) Distribution: net Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 26 Summary: In article <278@cisden.UUCP> phillips@trantor.UUCP (Tom Phillips) writes: > ... ... >Did you see the "ornithopter" flapping it's wings in the movie? Did the >Baron look to you as if he was too fat to walk without suspensor globes? >The book specifically mentions that the stillsuits were a slick gray >material, not black leather. > ... ... The thing is that these are two different media, which treat stories in two distinct ways. It's easy to write a book which accurately follows a movie, but often almost impossible to make a movie which accurately follows a book. Everyone has a different idea of how faithfully a book could have been followed; in this case, the author's opinion happens to be not as hard-line as yours. I read that they tried to make the ornithopter wings flap, but it just looked too hokey on film. (I thought that the whole idea of ornithopters was hokey when I first read it!) As for the black stillsuits - I'm sure that getting suits of the exact colour mentioned in the book was not a prime consideration, and certainly can't affect the story line too too much. >Frank Herbert had a very strong motivation for lying about how good the >movie was. Money.... Why not complain instead about the totally bogus preface that Herbert put in front of the latest _Dune_ clones? To paraphrase: "I did not write _Dune_ to make money or to interest others. I wrote it merely because this story was burning inside me to be Written..." Sure. And my real name's Kchula-Rrit. --Jamie. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com