Vertigo pierre boileau5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With Vertigo, things are a bit different. My point here is that my experience has been that there's generally something an author wants to convey that tends to not find its way into a film adaptation there have also been times when I've wondered if the screenwriters have even read the book their movie is based on. None of that comes through in the movie - in fact, the movie changes quite a bit from the original book so that when I got around to watching it, I kept hearing myself say "I don't remember that from the book" and "where did they come up with this" or other things along those lines until I had to go reread Hill's novel to satisfy my own curiosity. If you watch the film, and that's your only guide to Hill's story, you miss the story of a man who is in profound grief and is trying to rationalize a personal trauma in the only way he can make sense of things. One of my favorite examples of this phenomenon is The Woman in Black, based on Susan Hill's most excellent novel. Watching is one thing capturing more of the nuances in a story than the screenwriter can convey in a movie is another. I have this thing about reading books (or sometimes short stories) before I see the film adaptations this year's main focus in my crime reading, in and around my normal bouncing from present to past, is reading books that eventually became movies - my own sort of personal page-to-screen challenge. Originally published as D'entre les morts, 1954 ![]()
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