Not really sure why a studio is inspired to plunk down Millions to adapt a book to the screen and then Change it utterly. In other words, ruins it.
1. A black Mishka (with rastas no less) is just silly.
2. The counts character is different in the book and better than here. Ewan does a good job but the dialogue is hallmark-ish. "They can take your home but not who you are" (ugh). And then At the bar..."if I let myself think about it I'd fall in to despair" or something to that TV effect. Why? The wonderful glorious thing about the book is the Count has such staggering depth of character!! In fact, so much so that he's in this situation
3. Why not keep the book in order? They pull pieces (badly) from much later in the book and randomly Alter it - this show is a mess. The book is SO much better and very Different!
4. Why alter simple things like his first morning where they actually bring him breakfast at his room. Such a nice moment to meet the hotel staff. It showed the deep respect they had for the count.
5. They're doing odd things like already referencing the pistols behind the painting and then He goes hunting for them. In the book he is amused by happening at finding them
6.ossip was not there at the moment he went back in to his suite or later when they didn't ever shoot Dimitri . He meets ossip much later and does Not know him yet and the Form a fascinating friendship!
7. They never rousted the Counts room! What was that about?!
8. He never for one moment thought of escape or rebellion! Also neither did the violin player. That's the point of the book! They were utterly good Russians, with self integrity. What was that weird fantasy of escape? In the book, we really see what character sasha has! In this show sasha pauses because he can't take his belongings??? (Eye roll) He stayed (and said He wrote the poem) because of his strength of character! And this Whole weird story line made up and crammed In with Dimitri???
9. "How are we going to survive these endless days stuck in this hotel"? So on the nose. Painful writing. Such a better reveal in the book of how Nina shows him the hotel. It's a fun room not a spy thriller
It really shows how a world class book writer like Amor and a Screen writer are just not in the same league.
10. Marina is also not a Russia in 1918 (eye roll). Really? A period price can't even be a period piece now?? (Huge eye roll). Where's the diversity for Russian actors? They're English and black. Why not hire Russians??
11. The trip through the basement in the book is so charming and in This show it becomes some sort of political thriller. He saw dimitris name on a list just by chance??? Lame. And then The count won't leave because of his dead sister?? "Perhaps I don't deserve to (live my life)". Dear god who wrote this?? Why not just do what amor did in the book?!?!?! It's GENIUS
12. The camera jerks around randomly and bizarrely.
13. The flashbacks are random and not Illumintaing the way they use them - in the book Amor revealed them so artfully!!
14. They seize Dimitri at the restaurant and smash His violin??? SO STUPID!!! And they Shoot him in front of the hotel?!?! Soooooooooo much better in the book! They find a photo of the emporer in Dimitri's grade school book. So much more illustrative of how crazy this time was. Amor was artful.
I've listened to the book a few times and it Is LEAGUES BETTER THAN THIS!!!
I will not be watching any further. This show is just not good.
READ THE BOOK!
An adaptation that IS GREAT!!! Is SHOGUN! Watch that instead! On Hulu. Shogun was a brilliant book (much longer than GIM too) and in Ten episodes they have done a brilliant job in that miniseries. And you Know what? Asians even got to play Asians and English Got to play English!
1. A black Mishka (with rastas no less) is just silly.
2. The counts character is different in the book and better than here. Ewan does a good job but the dialogue is hallmark-ish. "They can take your home but not who you are" (ugh). And then At the bar..."if I let myself think about it I'd fall in to despair" or something to that TV effect. Why? The wonderful glorious thing about the book is the Count has such staggering depth of character!! In fact, so much so that he's in this situation
3. Why not keep the book in order? They pull pieces (badly) from much later in the book and randomly Alter it - this show is a mess. The book is SO much better and very Different!
4. Why alter simple things like his first morning where they actually bring him breakfast at his room. Such a nice moment to meet the hotel staff. It showed the deep respect they had for the count.
5. They're doing odd things like already referencing the pistols behind the painting and then He goes hunting for them. In the book he is amused by happening at finding them
6.ossip was not there at the moment he went back in to his suite or later when they didn't ever shoot Dimitri . He meets ossip much later and does Not know him yet and the Form a fascinating friendship!
7. They never rousted the Counts room! What was that about?!
8. He never for one moment thought of escape or rebellion! Also neither did the violin player. That's the point of the book! They were utterly good Russians, with self integrity. What was that weird fantasy of escape? In the book, we really see what character sasha has! In this show sasha pauses because he can't take his belongings??? (Eye roll) He stayed (and said He wrote the poem) because of his strength of character! And this Whole weird story line made up and crammed In with Dimitri???
9. "How are we going to survive these endless days stuck in this hotel"? So on the nose. Painful writing. Such a better reveal in the book of how Nina shows him the hotel. It's a fun room not a spy thriller
It really shows how a world class book writer like Amor and a Screen writer are just not in the same league.
10. Marina is also not a Russia in 1918 (eye roll). Really? A period price can't even be a period piece now?? (Huge eye roll). Where's the diversity for Russian actors? They're English and black. Why not hire Russians??
11. The trip through the basement in the book is so charming and in This show it becomes some sort of political thriller. He saw dimitris name on a list just by chance??? Lame. And then The count won't leave because of his dead sister?? "Perhaps I don't deserve to (live my life)". Dear god who wrote this?? Why not just do what amor did in the book?!?!?! It's GENIUS
12. The camera jerks around randomly and bizarrely.
13. The flashbacks are random and not Illumintaing the way they use them - in the book Amor revealed them so artfully!!
14. They seize Dimitri at the restaurant and smash His violin??? SO STUPID!!! And they Shoot him in front of the hotel?!?! Soooooooooo much better in the book! They find a photo of the emporer in Dimitri's grade school book. So much more illustrative of how crazy this time was. Amor was artful.
I've listened to the book a few times and it Is LEAGUES BETTER THAN THIS!!!
I will not be watching any further. This show is just not good.
READ THE BOOK!
An adaptation that IS GREAT!!! Is SHOGUN! Watch that instead! On Hulu. Shogun was a brilliant book (much longer than GIM too) and in Ten episodes they have done a brilliant job in that miniseries. And you Know what? Asians even got to play Asians and English Got to play English!