#1206 Victoria Dougherty: On Fictional Adaptations
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Okay, so uh let me ask you then, I mean, and I guess that this is uh talk asking you this is very relevant because since you are an author, since you write fiction, I guess that as an author you would have your own opinion about this subject. But what do you think? about when people adapt a book to screen, I mean they make a movie or some or a ser a TV series, something like that, and to and they change the source material. I mean to what extent or at what point are you frustrated do you get frustrated when they change the source material? I mean uh because I can talk about the example of which
Some people have been discussing a lot of the rings of power. I don't know if you watch the show or not. If not, there's surely plenty of other examples we can discuss, but uh how frustrated do you get? How quickly do you get frustrated about it? I mean, what kinds of things do they need to change for you to get frustrated?
Well, I mean That would depend on the source material and how good it is and how attached I am to it. I think sometimes if the source material was just like a great idea but not a good execution, a great idea in general, and then someone with real talent comes in and improves it, yeah, um, then that's a great thing. Um Now that that's not always the case.
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