• @Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12•1 month ago

      In 1995, Dylan described his reaction to hearing Hendrix’s version: “It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn’t think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day.”

      Source

    • NotNotMike
      10•1 month ago

      One thing that always stuck out to me about the book is the introduction of certain editions. The author writes about himself researching the history of the country the story takes place in and describes it as real, saying he took his son to a museum with Inigo’s sword and everything.

      I was Googling furiously when I read it because I was so confused. I was astounded that the place (and people) was “real”. It took a bit of research to find that the author just does this bit and hasn’t let it go since he wrote the book

      I’m still so charmed that he tricked me. It made reading the book that much sillier, for me

      • @BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
        3•1 month ago

        I have a similar story from a different medium:

        Frank Zappa has an album called Francesco Zappa. On the back of the sleeve, Frank describes finding out about a distant relative who composed and played music during the 18th century. After telling some friends about it, I got to thinking that Frank had invented another character (á la Ruben and the Jets), because that’s the kind of thing he would do, and felt very foolish for repeating this information uncritically.

        Years later I looked the album up on Wikipedia, and it turns out Francesco Zappa was a real musician in the 18th century (who was not actually directly related to Frank).

        He got me twice with one album.

      • @kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•1 month ago

        I had a teacher that worked for the publisher and talked about how they’d have a series of responses for people who wrote in for the part of the book where the author says he wrote his own fanfiction scene and to write in if you wanted it.

        Like maybe the first time you write in they’d respond that they couldn’t provide it because they were fighting the Morgenstern estate over IP release to provide the material, etc.

        So people never would get the pages, but could have gotten a number of different replies furthering the illusion.

  • verdare [he/him]
    4•1 month ago

    I think the anime adaptation of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End was genuinely better than the manga. Which is saying something, because the manga was already pretty damn good.

    • SkaveRat
      6•1 month ago

      The reveal for example.

      Been a while since I read the book, and the reveal was similar, but a lot better in the movie

    • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      13•1 month ago

      TBF that was a low bar to clear. They just had to make sure the show was better than a bunch of screaming children.

      However it is truly fantastic

  • SolidGrueEnglish
    26•1 month ago

    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), at the time of its release, was based on a short story called The Sentinel by Arthur C Clarke. In that story, the roots of the Tycho Monolith plot segment of 2001 of is sketched out, and then expanded as both a screenplay and a full-length novel.

    • SolidGrueEnglish
      5•1 month ago

      Oh, and then I guess it inspired Bowie’s single, Major Thom

  • @Gsus4@mander.xyz
    17•1 month ago

    Blade runner. Much better than “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” but it is only loosely based off it.

    PS: when reading a book after watching a film, it usually feels like the book is much better, fills in details, separates scenes which a film had mixed together or altogether done away with. E.g. The Shining, LotR, Dune…but for Androids I just felt “what, that’s it?”

    • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      17•1 month ago

      The truth of the matter is that a lot of PKD and Heinlien era sci-fi was very focused on exploring a single theme - that works well literary but isn’t rich enough for TV/Movie - so those works generally got richer and usually were by transitioned by genuine fans that tried to keep the theme and core message.

      • @MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
        10•1 month ago

        I feel this is mostly the case with short stories (and a lot of those works were short stories). Where there isn’t enough material for a full movie, the writers are free to add more to the story without messing much with the original. DADOES did have enough material but the movie decided to go a different direction while keeping the main theme. I wouldn’t say one is better than the other in this case as they’re pretty different.

    • Dessalines
      12•1 month ago

      They’re almost too different to compare imo, but both the book and the movie are top-tier.

    • @ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2•1 month ago

      A solid chunk of Philip K Dick’s output worked better as movies/TV than as books.

      There’s definitely something there, but the books feel somewhat unfinished/unpolished. Which makes sense, his books weren’t popular in English until after the release of Blade Runner, which coincided with his death. Maybe the popularity of the movie would’ve given him more time and resources to revise future works.

      A Scanner Darkly is the only one where both the book and the movie felt about the same quality.

    • Dessalines
      7•1 month ago

      Gotta disagree, the book is extremely entertaining, and has an element of satire that’s missing from the movie. I agree that the movie is one of the best ever made tho, and I’m not sure which one I like better, because it’s so well done.