The film is incredibly layered, discussing and addressing questions of origin, originality, creation, and creativity. Spike Jonze’s Adaptation (2002) also tackles this concept. Originality can be found in adaptation through passion and artistic expression. I will argue that there must be a point where storytellers need to find the artistic liberty to express their ideas and not feel restricted to specifics of another piece. However, Stam analyzes this debate of fidelity and discusses the inevitability of violations of “fidelity” between mediums and that the “betrayals” and frustration we experience as storytellers and audiences root back to our own fantasies. Robert Stam, the author of Beyond Fidelity: The Dialogics of Adaptation, pointed out that a film’s fidelity to a novel is an issue deemed by audiences to be moralistic, labeling a wrongful adaptation as a “betrayal” to the original piece and its readers (Stam, 2000). Artistically, this raises the question of to what extent do we define originality. Unfortunately, after watching these films there are always viewers that bring up the fidelity of the film to the original piece. As movie-goers, we all have seen films advertised with the “based on the book” tag line.
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