At least if you take a novel (like Lord of the Rings) or a graphic novel (like The Books of Magic) and turn it into a movie, you already know what worked.
What works for a novel often doesn't work very well at all for a movie. Since a movie is constrained to be presented in two hours or so any adaptation must use a condensed version or subset of the events in the book. It then becomes the screenwriter's job to decide which events were most important. In a well written novel few scenes are extraneous, so the plot has to be changed slightly for each one left out. Condensing an epic like LotR to three two hour installments will necessarily result in something quite different from the original story, and it may be impossible to preserve what works. Remember Dune? (Of course, now I'm going to get flamed by all the people that liked the Dune movie.:) )
This is getting offtopic, but it annoys me when Christians say things like, "X is not a real Christian". I'm sure some members of the religious right would say that you are not a real Christian because you don't support posting the Ten Commandments in schools (or whatever). You and the religious right would tell me contradictory things about what defines a true Christian, and I have no reason to trust your definition over Gary Bauer's, or vice versa. There are lots of interpretations of the teachings of Jesus, and consequently lots of people making their own definitions of "Christian" that exclude people who disagree with them. Because of this I question the validity of your assertion that certain people are not "real Christians". It is only valid in the context of your personal religious views and has no strength for the rest of us.
With Clinton on his way to lame-duck-hood, does anyone know the positions of the major presidential candidates on encryption? Presumably Gore follows Clinton's lead on this, what about Bush, Bradley, Forbes, Dole...?
Well, that would have been the smart thing to do. But I think part of their getting lost was supposed to have been due to the witch clouding their minds. Simply getting lost is one thing, but they tried (with a compass) to go in a single direction and ended up going in a circle. Part of the spookiness of ending up at the same log was that it, too, could be attributed to the witch. Readers of fantasy may remember a similar situation in C.S. Friedman's _Black_Sun_Rising_, in the Hunter's forest.
Heather, Josh, and Mike are now the undead servants of the Blair Witch, who sends them out into the world (with their camcorders) to recruit more. They hop a flight to Vegas and arouse suspicion when they are able to eat the airline burrito. Once in Vegas, they begin gambling for the souls of casino patrons, but run out of money. Mike bets and loses their map of Vegas. They wander the streets, stalked by the ghost of Mel Torme, finding stacks of poker chips waiting for them when they wake up at night. (They sleep through the day because they are undead, right?) Unable to see through the Velvet Fog, they wander into an abandoned casino where the movie ends in a terrifying, mysterious final scene.
Even if ESR is right here, the contributions should still help. Fields with more funding will draw more researchers, and clearly the probablility of making the breakthrough increases with the number of minds working on the problem. Many brilliant people at my school are discouraged from, say, theoretical physics because there are not very many jobs available. So while throwing additional money at a particular project may not be very useful, funding the creation of additional jobs and laboratories does help.
The gravitational interactions would be something to worry about. Moving it closer might just make it a moon of Jupiter instead of Saturn, or an outright collision. If you avoided that, there might still be insufficient solar flux, so you'd have to get it through the asteroid belt, which brings another host of problems.
No, the Roman writers had no copyright - which is why most of the great literature from that period was government subsidized and extols the virtues of the Republic (e.g. Cicero's De Re Publica) or the Empire (e.g. Virgil's Aeneid).
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This is nuts! Tell me you're not serious.
Saying 0 isn't a number because f(x)=1/x isn't defined for 0 is like saying pi/2 isn't a number because f(x) = tan(x) isn't defined for pi/2!
What works for a novel often doesn't work very well at all for a movie. Since a movie is constrained to be presented in two hours or so any adaptation must use a condensed version or subset of the events in the book. It then becomes the screenwriter's job to decide which events were most important. In a well written novel few scenes are extraneous, so the plot has to be changed slightly for each one left out. Condensing an epic like LotR to three two hour installments will necessarily result in something quite different from the original story, and it may be impossible to preserve what works. Remember Dune? (Of course, now I'm going to get flamed by all the people that liked the Dune movie. :) )
This is getting offtopic, but it annoys me when Christians say things like, "X is not a real Christian". I'm sure some members of the religious right would say that you are not a real Christian because you don't support posting the Ten Commandments in schools (or whatever). You and the religious right would tell me contradictory things about what defines a true Christian, and I have no reason to trust your definition over Gary Bauer's, or vice versa. There are lots of interpretations of the teachings of Jesus, and consequently lots of people making their own definitions of "Christian" that exclude people who disagree with them. Because of this I question the validity of your assertion that certain people are not "real Christians". It is only valid in the context of your personal religious views and has no strength for the rest of us.
So desu, it was a Salon article. Here is the original:
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http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06
With Clinton on his way to lame-duck-hood, does anyone know the positions of the major presidential candidates on encryption? Presumably Gore follows Clinton's lead on this, what about Bush, Bradley, Forbes, Dole...?
Well, that would have been the smart thing to do. But I think part of their getting lost was supposed to have been due to the witch clouding their minds. Simply getting lost is one thing, but they tried (with a compass) to go in a single direction and ended up going in a circle. Part of the spookiness of ending up at the same log was that it, too, could be attributed to the witch. Readers of fantasy may remember a similar situation in C.S. Friedman's _Black_Sun_Rising_, in the Hunter's forest.
Blair Witch Project II
The Mel Torme Project
Heather, Josh, and Mike are now the undead servants of the Blair Witch, who sends them out into the world (with their camcorders) to recruit more. They hop a flight to Vegas and arouse suspicion when they are able to eat the airline burrito. Once in Vegas, they begin gambling for the souls of casino patrons, but run out of money. Mike bets and loses their map of Vegas. They wander the streets, stalked by the ghost of Mel Torme, finding stacks of poker chips waiting for them when they wake up at night. (They sleep through the day because they are undead, right?) Unable to see through the Velvet Fog, they wander into an abandoned casino where the movie ends in a terrifying, mysterious final scene.
Even if ESR is right here, the contributions should still help. Fields with more funding will draw more researchers, and clearly the probablility of making the breakthrough increases with the number of minds working on the problem. Many brilliant people at my school are discouraged from, say, theoretical physics because there are not very many jobs available. So while throwing additional money at a particular project may not be very useful, funding the creation of additional jobs and laboratories does help.
The gravitational interactions would be something to worry about. Moving it closer might just make it a moon of Jupiter instead of Saturn, or an outright collision. If you avoided that, there might still be insufficient solar flux, so you'd have to get it through the asteroid belt, which brings another host of problems.
Transporting the oil would be the easy part. Just drop it and it falls down the gravity well towards Earth. Aiming might be difficult though.
No, the Roman writers had no copyright - which is why most of the great literature from that period was government subsidized and extols the virtues of the Republic (e.g. Cicero's De Re Publica) or the Empire (e.g. Virgil's Aeneid).
(sorry this is a bit offtopic)