Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "George R.R. Martin Is Based As F*ck" video.

  1. Screenwriters have done hatchet jobs on original IPs since movies began. You can't do justice to a nuanced, 1000-page novel with a 2-hour movie. In film school, they are all taught to try to make the absolute best 1.5 to 2 hour movie, based LOOSELY on the original work. Anyone who has ever read the original book and then watched the movie knows that this is the custom. It always sucks to watch the movie if you've already read the book, with very few exceptions. In the current era, we can do longer formats and run mini-series or short series that do the original material justice. This was achieved by the adaptation of Clavell's SHOGUN (the 1st one, not the 2nd) and King's THE STAND, both of which were made-for-tv miniseries that were enormously successful. Peter Jackson did it with a trilogy of 3-hour movies. I think it could've been done even better with a mini-series of 10 to 15 hours, without any lagging or filler. So in a way, the ACTUAL modern audience is shitting on the way things have always been done, and the way all the would-be writers, producers, and directors are trained and rewarded. I think some of this was inevitable, with the march of technology and people seeing things done right, with a few or several series on Netflix and Amazon. Once you've binge-watched Peaky Blinders or Breaking Bad, you're kind of spoiled for the 2-hour theater experience, especially if you have a decent home entertainment system. A LOT of people got much better home entertainment systems during COVID. The rest of us took to the outdoors and turned all that shit off.
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