tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21654824.post8539126516292010739..comments2024-01-13T23:31:34.532-08:00Comments on This Book Is For You: If I Was Less of a Raging Gentile, There Would Be All Manner of Cool Yiddish Slang in This Reviewmary_mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18271776145478019619noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21654824.post-12750237805541839482007-06-01T17:43:00.000-07:002007-06-01T17:43:00.000-07:00I guess I see your point, but I have to agree wit...I guess I see your point, but I have to agree with Alan Moore - probably the popular writer whose best work is most routinely mauled on the big screen - on this one: there's the book, and then there's the movie, and if somebody wants to pay an author a lot of money to base a film on their book, eh, why not, as long as we all understand that the book has nothing to do with the movie. <BR/><BR/>(Which is to say, nothing the movie can do will change one word of the book, and if the moviemakers mess it up, well, that's their mistake to make.)<BR/><BR/>As far as the cash/selling out issue...well, having been a self-employed artist-type, writers of literary fiction (along with former leaders of cult bands, session musicians, and other folks who should know better) get a pass on me from accusations of selling out. Folks gotta eat and all, and as long as Chabon isn't going back and releasing a movie novelization that has been heavily edited, I don't see it so much as a sellout or cash-in.<BR/><BR/>In fairness, this could also be because I just couldn't get into <I>Mysteries of Pittsburgh.</I>Bradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11392485598731995230noreply@blogger.com