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Originally Posted by SnorkleCat
Directors who "improve" upon other people's creations so outrageously are little more than parasites.
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Ouch. So by that logic then you can't make a movie like Adaptation, or The Shining, or any movie that deviates from the original material, without being a parasite?
Or how about any sort of retelling of a story? Are all the Cyrano retellings the products of parasites? Or how about the various Shakespeare adaptations that change the text or setting in some way?
You only have to admit you like the Tolkein books and leave it at that without making generalistic claims. If anything closely following a story without injecting you own artistic vision into it is more "parasitic" to the source material than is using the source as inspiration for your own vision to build upon in a unique way.
