“Very Complex”: Unfredible Books

Today, technologies have opened great opportunities for film production, but some books still remain a “strong nut”: directors have difficulty in transferring ideas to the screen now and later. We tell you which books are “unexpected ..

Ulysses, James Joyce

The postmodern novel “Ulysses” is written by James Joyce in the flow of consciousness, which makes it difficult to perceive. For example, there is a section without punctuation. Despite an impressive volume, the plot describes about one day of three main characters. In the novel, Ireland’s old legends and politics, including many recalls. The film adaptation has the right to exist, but it is still greatly simplified and does not give an idea about the size of the book. The reason lies in the language itself. Meanwhile, Sergey Eisenstein advised him to watch and not read the book as a film, because words are made up of the images of the clips. This just the director himself did not make a film in the book.

“In search of lost time”, Marseille Proust

Marseille Proust has a complex structure: a flow of consciousness and polyphony. As it is, the reader enters the internal experiences, reflections and time perceptions of the characters, which is not realistic to pass the screen.

“Snail on the slope”, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

In principle, the Strugatsky brothers have fame as “unexpected” writers. It is enough to remember how far away from the plan “sorcerers”. Anti -Topia has a snail on the slope ”, Roma Roman in the novel” structure and is full of existential ideas. It is often difficult to perceive philosophy in cinema, so no one has received adaptation even for adaptation.

“Ant Beetle”, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

“Ant Beetle” is written in the form of a report, not just in the species of epistos (ie, in the form of letters). Strugatsky loves verbs very much, but almost does not use adjectives to describe the characters and emotions of heroes, so they remain only as functions.

“Eden”, Stanislav Lem

If Solaris’s film adaptation was very main, despite the destructive examination of the author, he did not even try to transfer to the “Eden” screen. The book belongs to the SO -Called Solid Science fiction, which includes difficult accessible explanations of science. Not all the heroes here are nothing but functions: they don’t even have names – their position only “chemist”, “physicist” positions. Scientific discovery encounters an extraterrestrial way of life called double love (a reasonable rock with nuclei transmitting different colors). Defining behavior and language is not an easy task. At the same time, it is very difficult to convey thoughts in cinema, taking into account the fact that there is almost no action.

“Endless Joke”, David Foster Wallace

We have countless number of heroes for almost a thousand pages, and the plot is so inconsistent that you stumble at every step. It does not simplify perception and numerous footnote. It is not an easy task to turn it into a thin narrative.

“Above Abyss in Rye”, Jerome Salinger

Paradoxically, the almost most popular book in the United States, which is regularly mentioned in films and series, did not receive a good adaptation. Salinger’s story is distinguished by deceptive simplicity: it is difficult to turn Holden Collda’s experiences into a cinema language. Also, with all the advantages of Russian translation, it is worth noting that this book is the best of English, but all the beauty of the conversation on the screen is impossible.

Atlant corrected his shoulders, Ain Rand

Roman Ain Rand “Atlant corrected his shoulders”, a philosophical study in the form of fiction on objectivity. It is particularly difficult to convey the 70 pages of a large -scale idea. Meanwhile, they once tried to film the book, but the film failed in a disgusting way at the box office.

“House of Leafs”, Mark Danilevsky

The oddity of the “House of the Leaves ın of the leaves lies in typographic experiments that break the templates of the classical novel. The text constantly changes the position on the page and contains fonts and colors puzzle and tips. This labyrinth book is also distinguished by many unreliable storytellers, and translation into a cinema language will become a real linguistic difficulty.

“Gravity Rainbow”, Thomas Pinchen

Thomas Pincon stands equal to Marseille Proust and James Joyce as the author of the most difficult books. In order to read them, it is important to have knowledge in different fields from history and science to pop culture. In addition, Thomas Pinchon loves the theory of mystery and conspiracy, so events borrow from an unreliable storytelling in Bleading’s Rainbow. In this context, it is almost impossible to translate the book into understandable visual images and convey ideas.

“William Folkner while dying”

The uniqueness of the novel “I Die” lies in the William Fulkner composition structure – the narrative is carried out in the form of short monologues on behalf of many heroes, including a dead mother. Polyphony creates the effect of the “speech choir olan, which reveals the benmentrism of the characters and drowns the voice of the author. If you show this on the screen, the book will lose its strangeness.

“In the Lighthouse”, Virginia Wolf

Orlando Virginia Wolf’s novel was unexpected before the release of the same film as Tilda Swinton, and now they see the book as “Lighthouse .. Although it is written in the flow of consciousness, there is almost no action at work.

“Road”, protect McCarthy

There is almost no dialogue in this novel, and the heroes do not even have their names, but even if you come with them, the main capture remains: what causes the end of the world. The land is uncertainty that makes it difficult to be transmitted on the screen.

“Ranks of madness”, Howard Lovecraft

Lovecraft’s novel influenced the films of John Carpenter’s “Alien” Ridley Scott and “something ,, but in the original form, it is very difficult to convey the behavior and appearance of the creatures in Antarctica.

Source: People Talk