Discuss the responsibility of the screenwriter to the source material they are adapting. Does that responsibility change from one piece of material to another? Does it change over time? Provide examples for your discussion from the movies we have viewed, read, and discussed.
Movies viewed :
ALAN TURING: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges (1983)
• BARBIE by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach (screenplay, 2022)
• BLACK KLANSMAN: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigations of a
Lifetime by Ronald Stallworth (2014)
• HAMILTON: The Revolution (2016,
Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, including selections of
HAMILTON, 2016, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda)
• THE LAST OF US: “Long Long Time” by Craig Mazin (teleplay, 2022)
• NOMADLAND: Surviving America in the 21st Century by Jessica Bruder (2017)
• NOMADLAND by Chloé Zhao (screenplay, 2020)
• THE ORCHID THIEF by Susan Orlean (1998)
• THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER by Stephen Chbosky (novel, 1999)
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• THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER by Stephen Chbosky (screenplay, 2012)
• PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen (1813)
• ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare (1597)
• WATCHMEN by Alan Moore (1986)
• WATCHMEN: Pilot: “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice” by Damon
Lindelof (teleplay, 2019)
This class is about From Page to Screen: Adapting Stories for Film and TV.