It is interesting that they note that Garris has made more Stephen King adaptations than anyone else. "You have to trust the story," Garris says, noting that you have to first find what makes the story work. He says that reading is an "active" process while watching is a passive process. (That's really good)
"The closer you stay to the King source material the better the movie," Garris says.
Nice interview, and it's neat to see Garris acknowledge Sleepwalker as flawed.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with him that movies are passive, and as it turns it's a point I also disagree about with Roger Ebert.
Garris says books are active, film is passive.
I say both mediums are active.
Ebert says movies are not thinking, but emotional mediums. I disagree and say both book and film equally are intellectual mediums that require thought in order for the audience to get the full effect.
The reason I see no fundemental difference between film and book is because the point about both is stories, and not the medium they are delivered through. Whether ink and paper or celluloid and microchip, a story remains itself, no matter the way it's told.
One other thing, for which Garris wins a place in one of (if not THE) top spots of King directors.
Something he says that should be blazoned on a plague: I'd rather see a real "crappy" looking movie that has a good storyline and wonderful performances in it than to see a really glossy fantastic special effects, vehicle that is dead at the center.
ChrisC