Re: A bottomless pit of plagiarism

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:46:07 -0700, Tim Merrigan <tppm@rr.ca.com>
wrote:

On 6/16/2025 8:16 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

Note that most versions of Dracula end in England because they are
based (directly or indirectly through an earlier movie's script) on a
stage play, not the book. And I don't think these are isolated cases.

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Also, the book is a collection of letters and diary entries, some
"originally" in shorthand.  It would be hard to maintain that in a
visual format.

Another novel done similarly is, IIRC, Wilkie Collins' /The Woman in
White/. There were probably others: this is probably a recognized
literary style.

In the /Dracula/ I have seen, the closest to this is a scene where an
orderly reads a newspaper report about small childern injured by a
"bootiful lady". In the book, IIRC, you just get the newspaper story.

You /could/ do a film of the book with characters reading the various
letters, diaries, etc, but I agree that it would work very well. As
you say, this literary style would be hard to maintain in a visual
format.
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"