this is the voice of re:mote induction.Tuesday, August 12, 2003
101 Reykjavik - Hallgrimur Helgason
a couple of years ago i saw the film 101 Reykjavik directed by Baltasar Kormakur, which is based on the book 101 Reykjavik by Hallgrimur Helgason. i quite enjoyed the film, bought it on DVD not that long ago, and watched it again. i bought the soundtrack, which worked quite well with the film. i also intended to read the book. but somehow. i never got round to it. at least till now.
i'm maybe a chapter or so in, early days yet for sure, and it is a good sized book - not too wee, not too big. but straight off i am noticing differences from the film. some of which might be considered to be major. for starters in the film lola is a flamenco teacher who arrives in reykjavik to teach dance, in the film she is straight off an icelandic lesbian, who works with alcholics anonymous, and is known as lola despite it not being her name. quite a difference! less significantly, i am pretty sure that the main character is younger in the film than the book.
curious. i wonder to what degree other things have been changed. of course book to film adaptations are always going to be a kind of fuzzy logic, taking part for the parcel, rather than the whole. some remain closer to the original than others, while some become entirely unrecognisable, for whatever reason.
no doubt more to say the further into the book i get.
a couple of years ago i saw the film 101 Reykjavik directed by Baltasar Kormakur, which is based on the book 101 Reykjavik by Hallgrimur Helgason. i quite enjoyed the film, bought it on DVD not that long ago, and watched it again. i bought the soundtrack, which worked quite well with the film. i also intended to read the book. but somehow. i never got round to it. at least till now.
i'm maybe a chapter or so in, early days yet for sure, and it is a good sized book - not too wee, not too big. but straight off i am noticing differences from the film. some of which might be considered to be major. for starters in the film lola is a flamenco teacher who arrives in reykjavik to teach dance, in the film she is straight off an icelandic lesbian, who works with alcholics anonymous, and is known as lola despite it not being her name. quite a difference! less significantly, i am pretty sure that the main character is younger in the film than the book.
curious. i wonder to what degree other things have been changed. of course book to film adaptations are always going to be a kind of fuzzy logic, taking part for the parcel, rather than the whole. some remain closer to the original than others, while some become entirely unrecognisable, for whatever reason.
no doubt more to say the further into the book i get.
Comments:
Post a Comment
