Letter: Author needs to harden up
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OPINION: Upon seeing The Vintner's Luck, author Elizabeth Knox lay in bed and cried for days (Nov 19). Diddums.
Comparing a book with a film is comparing apples with oranges, as well she knows.
Novelists naturally hope for the best when their work is committed to the silver screen, but as many can attest, you pays your money, and takes your chances. Or rather, receive money for the rights . . .
Knox, however, sounds as if she needs a can of "harden up". Film-maker Niki Caro took a big risk adapting the novel. Whether it "works" or not, time will tell. It's subjective, anyhow.
Furthermore, calling a wine grower a vintner was bound to backfire: it's "viticulturalist".
ZAC LUCAS
Palmerston North
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Yep, she'll just have to get over it, but the movie is an appalling stinker. If you like pretty scenery you might enjoy it, 'cos it is pretty. As a movie, however, it's a dog. I'm interested in why Niki Caro chose to remove the whole gay-romance thing - that was the central theme and platform for the whole story, take that away and there's stuff all left to make a movie out of. Hence it's about as interesting as watching grass grow...at night...in the rain. Was she scared she might offend people? The idea of a gay angel too provocative? It's a shame when film makers get weak in the knees at the prospect of a bold theme, and decide making nonsensical rubbish is preferable to, er... "ruffling a few feathers" (angel wings aside).