So many different ways. Yesterday’s class focused on one story, Ambrose Bierce’s “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” Text versus movie. Ensuing discussion of sequence and presentation in comparison and contrast. How key plot points were manipulated–how they can be and need be, for and by the medium of film. Is the movie judged by having read the textual version, or vice versa? Are the tools of sound and visuals helpful to reader/viewer involvement, or are they a hindrance to the writerly effect? How important is following the linear narrative in such a story, with its breaks in sequence by flashback and fantasy?
Neither is more important or better than the other; each must be judged on its own. And yet, there will be an opinion formed regardless of ignorance of the technicalities or of clear knowledge of each.
That then, is what makes each an invitation.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
Nice.