The visual medium, coupled with the need for brevity, can do a lot of pull the chracterization into a two-dimensional plane. I was actually pleasantly surprised at Mrs. Porter, but yes, the supporting case turned into visual snapshots. And just try to depict the relationship of human and daemon in a visual medium. Can't be done, really.
I understand they actually filmed to the end of the first book, but it was a downer for the test audiences, so they sculpted it back to a more positive point in the story (and didn't leave them with a cliff-hanger). Again, foci of movies are different from those of books.
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Date: 2007-12-21 07:32 pm (UTC)I understand they actually filmed to the end of the first book, but it was a downer for the test audiences, so they sculpted it back to a more positive point in the story (and didn't leave them with a cliff-hanger). Again, foci of movies are different from those of books.