Word: adaptationitis
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What are the similarities between Dante Alighieri and Steve Buscemi? First time writer and director Hue Rhodes may be the only one. Loosely based on Dante’s “Inferno,” “Saint John of Las Vegas” follows a reformed gambler?...
Aside from that somewhat unfair assumption, it’s also clear that the first-time director and writer tried a little too hard with his adaptation of a staple of classic literature. He throws in random voiceovers that attempt to be insightful, but instead prove to be more distracting...
But Mason is himself a bold writer, and “The Lost Books” moves deftly and confidently out of the realm of adaptation into its own imagined ground. His sentences, brawny and lithe, add their own muscle to Homer’s verse. “When...
The adaptation has resulted in an increase of invasive species, which tend to disrupt ecosystems and require expensive management when they interfere with agriculture.
A new study finds that religion may have evolved as a by-product of non-religious, cognitive processes, dispelling a competing theory that religion served as an adaptation to help unrelated individuals cooperate.