This week’s Cinema Eclectica is devoted entirely to Badaptations – those times when, in between the page and the screen, something vital goes missing. Graham’s choice is 1995’s The Scarlet Letter, in which one of the most introverted and spiritual of 19th-century novels is turned into a Demi Moore bonkbuster. Hester Prynne isn’t the only one suffering from lack of fidelity.
Being too faithful to the source can also be an issue, as Aidan discovers when he reviews the slavishly accurate L Ron Hubbard adap Battlefield Earth. Hundreds of people worked on this film and not one of them challenged John Travolta on his outfit. Finally Rob rounds us out with World War Z, a classic case of Hollywood buying up a cult bestseller, realising it can’t be turned into a PG-13 action movie, then going ahead and doing it anyway.
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