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Loading... Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation (2009)by Ray Bradbury, Tim Hamilton (Illustrator)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I know I enjoyed this original text. I just didn't really like this graphic novel adaptation. I found it hard to follow. Unlike most graphic novels that add understanding to the plot- I was more confused because the story lacked context. ( ) Most novels which have been adapted into graphic novels tend to leave one slightly wanting, but this one made an admirable (and more successful) attempt compared to most. From the tone of the introduction, Bradbury had a strong guiding hand during its creation, so the story still sounds distinctly like him. Obviously some of the detail and complexity did not manage to make the translation, but our fireman is still a confused and jarring character within an artificially adapted world. I wasn't 100% on board with Tim Hamilton's artwork, since hte novel almost demands a stark minimalism, both from the forced simplicity of the tv-dominated life Guy lives and the film noire-esquce capers of his desperate escape, but he does do a great job overall from a traditional comic book viewpoint. It would be nice if the graphic novel companies actually bothered to invest in both their artists and writers, though, so that the two could create more atuned pieces of literature.
Bradbury is no Beatty. He's a pluralist. He loves high and low, literature and comics, opera and movies. He's adapted his novel for just about every medium. Given this, perhaps the message of the comic-book rendition of Fahrenheit 451 is that the elitist, nostalgic, black-and-white thinking of a Beatty is part of the problem and leads to black-and-white solutions like censorship and book burning. Beatty has a love-hate relationship with the paper he burns. Bradbury does not. Belongs to Publisher SeriesIs an adaptation ofNotable Lists
As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art that uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature. --from publisher description No library descriptions found. |
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