Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Have you noticed that all the recent adaptations of classic stories are kinda strange? Think of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, 2026's Wuthering Heights, Christoper Nolan's The Odyssey, Netflix's East of Eden, and many more. In this video, we explore why recent adaptations of classic novels keep changing the central idea of the story while keeping the plot and characters intact. More importantly, after identifying the forces behind it, we talk about what we can do about it.
@Goodmakers_PaulAnleitner's video I mention: youtu.be/z9yZCle4ow0?si=rFkaMEUOHyLK9NjB
SOURCES
Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, 1967 (Spivak translation, Johns Hopkins UP, 1976)
Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author," 1967, collected in Image-Music-Text, 1977
C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy, 1955, chapter 13
C.S. Lewis, "On the Reading of Old Books," 1944
Chapters
0:00 Intro
03:38 Deconstruction
06:57 Death of the Author
08:29 Chronological Snobbery
10:08 Secularization
13:26 What we can do
Have you noticed that all the recent adaptations of classic stories are kinda strange? Think of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, 2026's Wuthering Heights, Christoper Nolan's The Odyssey, Netflix's East of Eden, and many more. In this video, we explore why recent adaptations of classic novels keep changing the central idea of the story while keeping the plot and characters intact. More importantly, after identifying the forces behind it, we talk about what we can do about it.
@Goodmakers_PaulAnleitner's video I mention: youtu.be/z9yZCle4ow0?si=rFkaMEUOHyLK9NjB
SOURCES
Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, 1967 (Spivak translation, Johns Hopkins UP, 1976)
Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author," 1967, collected in Image-Music-Text, 1977
C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy, 1955, chapter 13
C.S. Lewis, "On the Reading of Old Books," 1944
Chapters
0:00 Intro
03:38 Deconstruction
06:57 Death of the Author
08:29 Chronological Snobbery
10:08 Secularization
13:26 What we can do
