For Adonis in particular, I think it would be doing a disservice to the theme and story you are telling to change the medium.* So much of the point of Adonis is an examination of the concepts of gaze (male, female) and being reduced to An Object People Look At. I think that's a story that (if not only) can certainly BEST be told in movie format.
Why not a book (or even a play)? Because they emphasize words (books are obvious, but I'm sure you've heard the screenplay vs. stageplay formats idea). And why a movie? (Versus television, which of course you know I have a bias toward, so if I'M saying it...)
While obviously DVDs, the internet, and the increased HD/large screen TV experiences are kind of changing the landscape, at their cores, movies are Big Screen Spectacles, and television is Stories in Your Living Room. It needs to be a movie because it's an epic - Aidan is supposed to be (to the audience) a larger-than-life, untouchable, ethereal beauty. The person the entire crowd is watching. There's in fact that sense of camaraderie among the watchers, too - one that plays out best in a movie theater where you and a whole bunch of strangers are all watching the same thing.
It's a story about viewing, objectifying, and being an audience. That story is best expressed when those themes are folded into the medium itself.
(I mean, there are obviously logistical reasons it shouldn't be other media - but I tried to keep to why it SHOULD be a movie.)
*Which is not to say that it's not a valid choice for a variety of reasons to change it if that's what you want to do! I'm just annoyed with them for asking you when I think the medium you chose expresses what you're saying so clearly.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zaluzianskya and ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
skylark_photos
no subject
Date: 2015-12-17 03:29 am (UTC)Why not a book (or even a play)? Because they emphasize words (books are obvious, but I'm sure you've heard the screenplay vs. stageplay formats idea). And why a movie? (Versus television, which of course you know I have a bias toward, so if I'M saying it...)
While obviously DVDs, the internet, and the increased HD/large screen TV experiences are kind of changing the landscape, at their cores, movies are Big Screen Spectacles, and television is Stories in Your Living Room. It needs to be a movie because it's an epic - Aidan is supposed to be (to the audience) a larger-than-life, untouchable, ethereal beauty. The person the entire crowd is watching. There's in fact that sense of camaraderie among the watchers, too - one that plays out best in a movie theater where you and a whole bunch of strangers are all watching the same thing.
It's a story about viewing, objectifying, and being an audience. That story is best expressed when those themes are folded into the medium itself.
(I mean, there are obviously logistical reasons it shouldn't be other media - but I tried to keep to why it SHOULD be a movie.)
*Which is not to say that it's not a valid choice for a variety of reasons to change it if that's what you want to do! I'm just annoyed with them for asking you when I think the medium you chose expresses what you're saying so clearly.