![]() ![]() ![]() (I’ve disliked all his films except Following on first viewing. I’ve belatedly concluded that Christopher Nolan’s film of The Prestige is a good film. The most obvious constraint is that of time: a good book simply contains too much to be translated into two hours’ viewing. To create a visual representation of, say, an epistolary novel or an unreliable first-person narrative is to accept the challenge of matching the author’s vision in a medium whose possibilities are quite different. The author has, presumably, chosen to use the techniques of prose fiction because they were best suited to the story s|he wanted to tell. When I was much younger, I had a rule of thumb that it’s possible to make a good film of a bad book but that films of good books are invariably bad. Christopher Priest, The Prestige Art Kavanagh ![]()
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