A Critical Dragon | Talking About Adaptation: How We Measure and Discuss 'Good' Adaptations @ACriticalDragon | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
There has been a lot of discussion about the new Amazon TV Show, The Rings of Power, questions about fidelity to the text, what an adaptation should and should not do, but how are we measuring and discussing 'good' in terms of adaptation? What are the criteria we use to analyse adaptation?
Are we consistent with how we approach adaptation?
To be honest, there is a bigger conversation to be had about canon, how canon is constructed, consideration of modern audience, casting decisions, creative decisions, should adaptations be viewed as merely representing the material on screen or viewed as new creative enterprises that naturally bring a new vision and interpretation to life... This is actually a huge topic with a lot of different nuanced points, and I don't tackle all of it, or even a quarter of it. And even with the little I did discuss, I don't want to endlessly rerecord it to try to get it absolutely right and spot on. I am likely to return to these related topics a few more times because there are some really interesting points that can be discussed. So this is not the best articulation of what I was trying to say, but I will think on it and try to put together a few further videos to delve a little deeper into adaptation.
Intro and Music by Professor Trip.
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There has been a lot of discussion about the new Amazon TV Show, The Rings of Power, questions about fidelity to the text, what an adaptation should and should not do, but how are we measuring and discussing 'good' in terms of adaptation? What are the criteria we use to analyse adaptation?
Are we consistent with how we approach adaptation?
To be honest, there is a bigger conversation to be had about canon, how canon is constructed, consideration of modern audience, casting decisions, creative decisions, should adaptations be viewed as merely representing the material on screen or viewed as new creative enterprises that naturally bring a new vision and interpretation to life... This is actually a huge topic with a lot of different nuanced points, and I don't tackle all of it, or even a quarter of it. And even with the little I did discuss, I don't want to endlessly rerecord it to try to get it absolutely right and spot on. I am likely to return to these related topics a few more times because there are some really interesting points that can be discussed. So this is not the best articulation of what I was trying to say, but I will think on it and try to put together a few further videos to delve a little deeper into adaptation.
Intro and Music by Professor Trip.
If you would like to buy me a coffee or a book, Support me on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/criticaldragon
