Adaptation Analysis: Romeo & Juliet (Stage Play and 1996 Film)

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Julio compares and contrasts Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Romeo & Juliet with Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film adaptation.

Adaptation Analysis: The Evil Dead & Evil Dead: The Musical

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In this week’s Adaptation Analysis, Lyn compares the off-broadway hit Evil Dead: The Musical to the classic Sam Raimi film trilogy.

Adaptation Analysis: Sailor Moon

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In this edition of Adaptation Analysis, Lyn takes a look at Sailor Moon’s transformation (MAKE-UP!) from manga to anime.

Adaptation Analysis: RENT (Stage Musical, Film, and La Boheme)

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Julio compares and contrasts the original stage version of RENT with its film adaptation, along with the opera it was based on: La Boheme.

Adaptation Analysis #7: Clue

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In this Adaptation Analysis, Lyn takes a look at the immensely popular board game Clue and its 1985 film adaptation.

Adaptation Analysis: Psycho

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Lyn takes a look at Robert Bloch’s novel Psycho and sees how it measures up to the Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation.

Adaptation Analysis #5 – The Phantom of the Opera

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For our fifth analysis of film adaptations, we will reach out to Broadway for the source, with Joel Schumacher’s adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera.

Adaptation Analysis: V for Vendetta

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With Watchmen, the “unfilmable graphic novel,” now in theaters, it’s time to take a look at the last Alan Moore work that was brought to the big screen — the politically-laced graphic novel, V for Vendetta.

Adaptation Analysis: Battle Royale

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Lyn takes a look at Battle Royale, the violent Japanese phenomenon that has traveled from book to movie and back to print as a manga.

Adaptation Analysis: Mortal Kombat

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This week Lyn takes a look at the translation of Mortal Kombat from video game to movie (but only the first movie, as she denies the existence of the sequels).