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> A Man Called Otto This movie is a prime example of Hollywood's "machine" doing its thing. I've read the book and watched the original movie adaptation and i

> A Man Called Otto This movie is a prime example of Hollywood's "machine" doing its thing. I've read the book and watched the original movie adaptation and if you've done that you won't help but see right through the movie's producers' attempt to "commercialize" it. In the original movie/book the woman is Indian, in the American version she's Mexican.. There's absolutely nothing wrong with an Indian woman spicing up the life of a grumpy old white man. In the original movie/book the outcast boy is gay, in the American version they're trans.. This one was absolutely tacky. Gay people are still far from accepted universally even in the US.. All in all, this just proves the fact that movie making is primarily a business trying to cater to the audience (nothing wrong with that) but any talk about "the human" or artistic aspect is pure bullshit in my book.

b112 3y ago
To be fair, re: first point, they could have just liked the actress. Or even had a prior contract deal. And really are you going to tell anyone today, they can't play a role because of their ethnicity, unless it is key, pivotal to that role? The second seems more plausible as a marketing tactic. Re: book to script, I found I go less insane, if I just think of it this way. Two people were involved in events, one wrote a book, one a script. In as those two people would have seen different things, talked to different people, been more/less involved in events, and just interpret the world differenty, as we all do, it makes sense their output would differ. Thusly, I remain sane. Or perhaps less insane.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago
  > Re: book to script, I found I go less insane, if I just think of it this way. Two people were involved in events, one wrote a book, one a script. I go further than that - I explicitly prefer seeing the movie/show adaptation before going through the original books. I'm aphantasic - reading a book, I just can't picture anything in my mind. Every character and every scenery is mostly this cloud of facts, like an unresolved promise (the async programming kind), that I carry in my head 'till the last page. Seeing a movie/show, however, gives characters specific appearance, specific voice, specific cadence. Primed with those images and sounds, I find reading source material much easier and more enjoyable. And yes, as much as adaptations differ from the original, I don't mind. I can fix the inconsistencies on the fly, or separate the book reality from movie/show reality entirely. It's not a big deal. Meanwhile, having some specific images and sounds to anchor my barely-existing imagination to, is very helpful to me.
carabiner 3y ago
I hated that movie. I'm pretty liberal but it was such blatant pandering. The message just seemed to comfort millennials; see, the grumpy boomer was a bleeding heart lib just like us all along!
- ryder9 3y ago
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b112 3y ago

To be fair, re: first point, they could have just liked the actress. Or even had a prior contract deal. And really are you going to tell anyone today, they can't play a role because of their ethnicity, unless it is key, pivotal to that role? The second seems more plausible as a marketing tactic. Re: book to script, I found I go less insane, if I just think of it this way. Two people were involved in events, one wrote a book, one a script. In as those two people would have seen different things, talked to different people, been more/less involved in events, and just interpret the world differenty, as we all do, it makes sense their output would differ. Thusly, I remain sane. Or perhaps less insane.

TeMPOraL 3y ago
> Re: book to script, I found I go less insane, if I just think of it this way. Two people were involved in events, one wrote a book, one a script. I go further than that - I explicitly prefer seeing the movie/show adaptation before going through the original books. I'm aphantasic - reading a book, I just can't picture anything in my mind. Every character and every scenery is mostly this cloud of facts, like an unresolved promise (the async programming kind), that I carry in my head 'till the last page. Seeing a movie/show, however, gives characters specific appearance, specific voice, specific cadence. Primed with those images and sounds, I find reading source material much easier and more enjoyable. And yes, as much as adaptations differ from the original, I don't mind. I can fix the inconsistencies on the fly, or separate the book reality from movie/show reality entirely. It's not a big deal. Meanwhile, having some specific images and sounds to anchor my barely-existing imagination to, is very helpful to me.

carabiner 3y ago

I hated that movie. I'm pretty liberal but it was such blatant pandering. The message just seemed to comfort millennials; see, the grumpy boomer was a bleeding heart lib just like us all along!

ryder9 3y ago
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