34: The Wrath of James Caan

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2011

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Based on the best-selling novel! Inspired by HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” in this episode we discuss the translation of books to the screen. Should movies be faithful to the book? Is it better if filmmmakers take liberties? And what books do we wish would be made into movies? If you don’t want to listen to this episode, just buy the novelization.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable podcast, number 34, April 2011.
0:14.6	We are back on The Incomparable. I am Jason Snell, your host.
0:18.6	Our topic today is from page to screen.
0:23.4	We're going to talk about books being made into movies or TV shows.
0:27.7	The good examples, if there are such things, the terrible examples, there are plenty of those.
0:34.6	And joining me today to discuss this, we have Dan Moran.
0:38.4	Hi, Dan.
0:39.5	Hi, Jason.
0:40.3	Scott McNulty.
0:42.2	Hello.
0:43.1	Hello.
0:44.1	And John Syracusa.
0:46.0	Good evening.
0:46.8	Good evening.
0:48.0	So this was a good idea brought up actually by Scott McNulty.
0:51.8	So full credit to him with Game of Thrones having just premiered on HBO TV series based on a series of novels by George R.R.R. Martin, and we're going to talk about that series probably a couple of times in the next couple of months, but that's not really as much the topic of tonight's,
1:11.5	uh, incomparable as it is a jumping off point. Now, uh, many of us, I think, have read the
1:18.1	novel Game of Thrones. And I think it's interesting that even after one episode, if you've seen it,
1:23.1	um, it's a very faithful retelling. And actually, I didn't get the hebi-jeebies from it like I have with some other adaptations.
1:31.3	Has anybody else just really quickly?
1:32.9	Has anybody else seen the first episode of Game of Thrones?
1:36.5	I haven't actually watched it yet.
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