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benlehman at 09:06pm on 11/05/2007
benlehman at 09:06pm on 11/05/2007From Chris.
HBO is doing an adaption of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." But they've decided, apparently, that the book needs some changes. Namely
But the fact that Mr. Brown’s work has been translated into 17 languages and has sold five million copies around the world was not enough to convince HBO that a film version would draw a sizable mainstream audience. When the channel broadcasts its two-hour adaptation of the book, beginning Memorial Day weekend, at its center will be a new character: a man who was part Sioux, was educated at an Ivy League college and married a white woman.
“Everyone felt very strongly that we needed a white character or a part-white, part-Indian character to carry a contemporary white audience through this project,” Daniel Giat, the writer who adapted the book for HBO Films, told a group of television writers earlier this year.
I'm livid. Please, let's kick some shit about this.
HBO is doing an adaption of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." But they've decided, apparently, that the book needs some changes. Namely
But the fact that Mr. Brown’s work has been translated into 17 languages and has sold five million copies around the world was not enough to convince HBO that a film version would draw a sizable mainstream audience. When the channel broadcasts its two-hour adaptation of the book, beginning Memorial Day weekend, at its center will be a new character: a man who was part Sioux, was educated at an Ivy League college and married a white woman.
“Everyone felt very strongly that we needed a white character or a part-white, part-Indian character to carry a contemporary white audience through this project,” Daniel Giat, the writer who adapted the book for HBO Films, told a group of television writers earlier this year.
I'm livid. Please, let's kick some shit about this.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/arts/television/09knee.html NYtimes article
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That's just lame.
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This "contemporary white audience" shit, though: absurd.
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I asked them if they felt they would have to add a German POV character if they were doing Anne Frank.
Just an idea but what if...
Or maybe a happy ending based on focus group feedback.
Cue the Doomed Planet skit about Hollywood-style "fix up" of Diary of Anne Frank (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R7dVcawdQ0).
Stephen Dedman wrote in Never Seen by Waking Eyes about how he changed one of his stories to leave out a bit of Australian Aboriginal myth when readers objected that after the Europeans had stolen everything else, did they have to take the myths and use them for their own purposes too? He thought that was a fair criticism and made his story work without it.
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