Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...freer in some way when I'm doing my own script," she says, "because I can change it constantly without asking anybody. With somebody else's work, especially a classic novel, I feel a responsibility to respect the material...
...that this "responsibility" demands a complete fidelity to the source novel. Holland's characteristic quirks and odd-ball sense of humor--in Europa Europa, she made a character's foreskin a consistent source of laughs--resist any firm allegiance to an inherited script. "For me it is more playful to make somebody else's material," she affirms; it allows her to "concentrate on the interpretation more [than] having to create everything from scratch...
...does Holland stand on Jane Campion's controversial rendering of James's The Portrait of a Lady? That film was spurned by audiences and many critics for reimagining the novel's entrapped ingenue into an emotional masochist looking for trouble. "I think the criticism of Jane and Portrait came because people didn't like the film," says Holland. "If the film had been more effective for them, they would not have nitpicked about the approach...
That's our Oliver. He often works out on the Paranoio-Flex, sculpting suspicions, buffing his grudges, until he thinks the whole world is out to get him. That's just one reason Stone, again alone among modern filmmakers, is a figure waiting to be captured in a terrific novel. The funny thing is that maybe he did it himself, 30 years ago today...
...which software written in one place worked in another. These "open" standards were one of the charms of the original Web. Every one of its millions of pages could be read by any browsing program. Opening a page was as straightforward (and error-free) as opening a novel. No more. Both firms, intent on boosting market share, have loaded their programs with noncompatible features, so data configured for Netscape can look like mush on Explorer. As exciting as it is to see such slick Web products, it's sad to see the Net's wide-open ethos finally evaporate...