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How Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" Shows How to Adapt a Great Book
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How Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" Shows How to Adapt a Great Book

Or why the best "1984" movie is "Brazil," and not any "1984" adaptation

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Feb 01, 2023
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The other day on my Discord server, a user asked whether a great book could be turned into a great movie or not.

If it could not, then why exactly would it be hard-to-impossible to adapt great books to a different medium?

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