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Originally Posted by Funhouse
Flanagan's a really talented and interesting guy...
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I agree, he certainly is a fascinating guy... activist, essayist, novelist, filmmaker, Rhodes scholar!
I wanted to take a rest on his work for a month or so but I am very keen to read The Sound of One Hand Clapping soon. I have seen the film version some years back but I would like to also view it again following the novel as it is rare for an author to take up the directors chair and adapt their own work. Sure there are plenty of writer/directors and even authors-cum-scriptwriters, but I can't think of any authors-cum-directors. I'm sure there are, but not in Australia.
In fact I am increasingly being drawn to the muddy world of adaptation. I work in research and statistics for Screen Australia (formerly Australian Film Commission) and I am surprised in this country at the independence of the publishing industry and the film/TV industries, very little sourced work gets adapted in comparison to original scripts. I'm not saying that this is bad, but it certainly breaks a well worn trend that occurs internationally. But really, this is what makes the Flanagan example even more interesting, although I believe he had a bad experience in making, I thought it was suggested that he wouldn't work in film anymore!?!
If he did suggest that, he must have reconsidered it seeing as he is polishing the script for Baz Lurhmann's Australia.