I’ve been behind on my posts unfortunately because of all the work I have to do. For some reason I always get stuck with having a ton of work due in different classes all in the same week. It happens all the time. Maybe the world is conspiring against me. Anyway, the next few posts are from past dates; I have to get back in the game.
On February 28 there was a presentation of the Andrews and Chatman chapters, they spoke about adaptations and what it means to have them. Now fidelity was mentioned in the beginning of the presentation, the screenwriters staying faithful to the text. An example of doing this was where there was a beautiful woman in the novel, they tried to put one in the film as well. But not everyone might think this woman is gorgeous, so there are men watching her and basically drooling over her beauty.
I wonder if this method of adapting/portraying beauty in film is very successful. I read through my notes after our “What is good and What we like” discussion in class. This may be a good way to adapt the beauty of a character in a novel to the beauty of a actor/actress in a film. But even after someone states that a woman in the film is beautiful, not all of the viewers are going to think so.
Everyone judges someone else in their lifetime, people do it without even realizing it. Quite frankly, that is just the way things are. So, I believe that Scarlett Johansson is an incredibly beautiful woman. But a friend of mine stated that there is nothing about her that is attractive. People will judge will always judge beauty, whether its on the big screen or in a restaurant. So even with some men or women in a film saying how good someone looks as a way of backing up the fact that the character is supposed to be beautiful, it will always be disregarded by some. What it all comes down to is: who decides if the actor or actress is beautiful enough or not to portray the fictional character of a novel? Who has that power?