{"id":818,"date":"2007-02-20T09:48:46","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/20\/on-adaptations\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T17:13:44","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T21:13:44","slug":"on-adaptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/20\/on-adaptations\/","title":{"rendered":"On Adaptations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extracted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/2007\/02\/we-need-to-talk.html\">a lovely rant<\/a><footnote>By the way, I feel like that rant has nothing to do with me: I only read things I think I&#8217;ll enjoy, or am enjoying. I get almost no output from the Big Two, and what I do get tends to be from their boutique labels&#8211;and if I stop enjoying it, I stop buying it.<\/footnote> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaucoupkevin.com\/\">Beaucoup Kevin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While I&#8217;m at it, if you&#8217;re getting excited over <em>Watchmen<\/em> as a two-hour movie, then go <strong>fuck yourself. <\/strong> No, really, go ahead and do it now &#8211; I&#8217;ll wait.  Superhero comics have their very own <em>Finnegan&#8217;s Wake <\/em>and <em>The Crying of Lot 49<\/em> rolled into one, beautiful piece of work and you want to see it raped and reduced to a 120-minute running time?  What the hell is wrong with you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that ties in nicely with the Moore quotations on adaptation from a couple of days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Extracted from a lovely rantBy the way, I feel like that rant has nothing to do with me: I only read things I think I&#8217;ll enjoy, or am enjoying. I get almost no output from the Big Two, and what I do get tends to be from their boutique labels&#8211;and if I stop enjoying it, I stop buying it. at&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/20\/on-adaptations\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-dc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}