Lost in Translation

Scott wraps up his Lost in Translation History of Adaptations with plenty of graphs and charts!

While Lost in Translation treats sequels as original works continuing a story started in a previous film the general audience may not agree.

After two decades where original works were the majority, the sudden turn back to the level seen in the Fifties makes the Aughts seem abnormal.

Hart to Hart will be a gay couple, Jonathan Hart and Dan Hartman, a by-the-book attorney and a free-wheeling journalist, who fight crime.

Watership Down is a good example of being able to get to the heart of a novel without losing anything in the translation to film.

The percentage of original films drops, but the majority of popular movies for the Nineties are still original works, continuing the reversal started in the Eighties.

Will the cheese return to the big screen? Eventually.

The Clone Wars is well worth studying as a successful adaptation.

Over time, though, the length of novels has been growing, not just in page count but in story.

The three adaptations, Batman, Three Men and a Baby, and Fatal Attraction, come from different source works.

It's time for the Lost in Translation July news round-up!

Welcome to the Lost in Translation history of adaptations, the Seventies.

That said, superheroes present a new American mythology, one that is still being created while building on the myths and legends of history.

Welcome to the Lost in Translation history of adaptations.

It's a short Lost in Translation News Round Up this month. Just a few of note.

Today, I delve back into Dungeons & Dragons. The first inclination is to drop a meteor swarm on it and call it a day.

The end result is that Evil Dead is The Evil Dead with a better budget but a tighter film.

Welcome to the Lost in Translation history of adaptations.

Phantom took a huge risk, adapting both the legend of Faust and The Phantom of the Opera and turning them into a rock opera.

Here is your Lost in Translation news round up.