Lost in Translation

After three and a half years, Lost in Translation has built up a number of terms that haven’t been well defined.

As mentioned above, quality is the key. If the adaptation makes an effort to be faithful to the original work, audiences will watch.

As 2015 comes to a close, it’s time to see how the year went in terms of adaptations.

Sometime back, Lost in Translation looked at the intricacies of adapting tabletop role-playing games to a different medium.

Star Wars Rebels has the potential to strengthen A New Hope much like Clone Wars did with Revenge of the Sith.

The passage of time may be of help to The Six Billion Dollar Man.

This Jem and the Holograms movie was a flop, but it was one no one saw in theatres.

The Bionic Woman first aired in 1976, during The Six Million Dollar Man‘s third season.

It’s not a faithful adaptation of the radio play or even of HG Wells’ original work, but Spaced Invaders uses those works to create its own fun story.

Thirty years is enough time for a young man to work through the system to get to the point where he can make decisions on what to film.

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.