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Ben Gilbert: recommendation

22 Feb 2022 Acquired Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

“You need to innovate off the book when you're adapting from a book because there are things like internal dialogue that are hard to show on screen.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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recommendation
Recorded
22 Feb 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…That was one of the things that made me really want to get involved with this, too, is reading even in that first script, that oh, they're going to play with this. Especially on TV, playing with form and kind of [...][9] with storytelling conventions is not normal. That's the kind of thing I like to do and the kind of movies I like to watch, but I was really excited that they were taking what could otherwise be compartmentalized as a mainstream story idea, and using non mainstream filmmaking techniques, and taking bold risks to [...][10] with the audience's perception like that, like what you're talking about, then. And necessarily, you have to get clever because reading a book is a completely different experience than watching it on screen. You need to innovate off the book when you're adapting from a book because there are things like internal dialogue that are hard to show on screen. But you also have so much more opportunity because you have such a richer canvas to do the types of things like that fade-away. Perfectly said.…

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