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<font size=3>At 10/9/2012 09:52 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Funny you should say that--film,
no; screenplay, perhaps.<br><br>
V-)</font></blockquote><br>
In fact the film certainly is adapted from the short story. But I
decided not to add my personal opinion that it was *very* loosely adapted
-- the short story is small and sordid; the film is large and
glorious.<br><br>
Then there's the film "The Iron Giant", adapted from the late
poet laureate Ted Hughes's children's story "The Iron
Man". The story is insipid, the writing ... um, prosaic; the
film is rich and exciting. IMO.<br><br>
Joel<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>On 10/9/2012 11:51
AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I too would avoid
"adapted" for a book ... um, expanded from a<br>
shorter writing. But --<br><br>
Was the 129-minute film "The Man Who Would be King" adapted
from<br>
Kipling's (longish) short story?<br><br>
Joel<br><br>
At 10/9/2012 07:37 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">In this context I'd avoid
"adapt" at all costs, for the reasons already<br>
given.<br><br>
JL<br><br>
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On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Damien Hall<br>
<damien.hall@newcastle.ac.uk>wrote:<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Being Different, the book
Miller adapted from that essay.</blockquote>This felt strange to me too,
and having read down the thread I think I<br>
know=<br>
why. It isn't exactly the reason given by Victor, Alice and
Geoff, I<br>
don'=<br>
t think, though it may be related.<br><br>
I don't think 'my' syntax for _adapt_ allows it to go into this frame
with<br>
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this meaning. Since what is meant is that Miller wrote a book
called _On<br>
B=<br>
eing Different_ which was an adaptation / expansion of an essay, I
would<br>
ha=<br>
ve to say<br><br>
_On Being Different_, the book into which Miller adapted that
essay.<br><br>
We know of course that you should never say Never in this kind of thing
-<br>
b=<br>
ut I don't think that I could use _adapt A from B_ to mean 'make A out
of<br>
B=<br>
', except perhaps very informally / marginally.<br><br>
Damien<br><br>
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