![]() ![]() ![]() This is especially true for the film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, because its literary inspiration is terrible. In some ways, the worst thing a movie adaptation can do is try to be just like the book. Perhaps it lacks some plot points or elaborately described emotional lessons, but what it brings are music and costume and atmosphere and life, and it has to do that in a way that honors the spirit of the story it’s telling. What we sometimes fail to take into account, though, are all the things this medium adds to the work. It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that the book is always better than the movie because the movie has to leave out so much detail simply by virtue of being a different medium. It’s strange to value an adaptation primary based on how closely it resembles its source materials, but that seems to be what we do. It also probably meant that I needed to get outside more. I got to 67 items and decided this meant that the film was worthless. As a teenager, I once made a list of inaccuracies between Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and its movie counterpart. ![]()
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