I don’t really care about Star Wars

  • Xaphanos@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Cinema has it’s own symbolic language. As does music, dance, painting, etc. They are all different languages with different capabilities. Translation from book to movie is always incomplete, just as The Divine Comedy does not move into English without significant compromise. Adaptation is the best to hope for. And even that is often too difficult to accomplish well.