From the Back List - Adapting to Survive

 

The transformative power of bacteria turns plastic into eco treasures. Science 2023

Once again we have a treasure of our own from the Sup back list. It runs along parallel with Kim Falconer's latest post - The Art of Adaptation - Films in 2025

Read the entire back list post here and let us know what you think of these crazy bacterium set to save the planet!

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Adapting to Survive

by Kim Falconer

 

Adapting a book to the screen has many names - remake, reboot, revision... But they all have one thing in common: the story is, in part or whole, rewritten to survive.

From the point of view of the book, this isn't always good, where 'good' equals accurate or in the spirit of.... As I mentioned once in The Down Side of Adaptation, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides reminds us that the book's story radically changes once it becomes visual. 

"It's no longer a book, and to try to insist on it being a book will usually make it a poorer film." - Jeffrey Eugenides

In the world of storytelling, adaptation is about the book withstanding a translation to 'motion pictures' and in the wild kingdom, adaptation means exactly the same thing... Read more.

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We would love to hear about your favorite adaptations, in the wilds and multi-media! See you in the comments.