• Editorials,  Movies/Entertainment

    Novel Adaptations: Or How I Stopped Worrying About Getting Everything On Screen…

    I just picked up Angels & Demons on Blu Ray yesterday and reminded me of my experience reading this fascinating page turner and then seeing the movie some months later.  The movie was a much better adaptation than The DaVinci Code, but it still left me wanting.  This post goes out to all the fans of the “novel” out there – I sympathize with your plight.  Just like both of  Dan Brown’s brilliant novels, there are countless cases where, for instance, movies based on books suffer the unavoidable fate of having their source material, namely key elements, omitted or worse changed and in the end the fans can be pretty…