tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4798744626372711858.post9189813166377755092..comments2022-01-09T15:55:12.856-08:00Comments on Brilsby's Whims: Review (Adaptation Comparison): Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (adapted from The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas)Simon Brilsbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922819494593801127noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4798744626372711858.post-17771672656275155592016-08-03T05:39:25.451-07:002016-08-03T05:39:25.451-07:00'The translator should try to achieve the inte...'The translator should try to achieve the intentional one.' <br /><br />Ah, but surely we must contend with Borges analogous view of translation. There is beauty to literal translations, and perhaps adaptations. Imposing what was natural and commonplace about one language onto another (and perhaps of one medium onto another) can create beauty not present in the original. 'The One Thousand Nights and a Night' is a common construction in the story-sequence's original language. But to us of English tongue, the syntax is exotic. <br /><br />Perhaps the same can be said of adaptations. Rather than isolating the intention of a work, and weaving a foreign medium's devices around that intention - why not do the piece as literally as possible - have lead play gold and gold lead? Simon Brilsbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12922819494593801127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4798744626372711858.post-51448701681248342642016-08-02T02:56:09.052-07:002016-08-02T02:56:09.052-07:00I really wonder what would happen if you faithfull...I really wonder what would happen if you faithfully translate a beautiful text… Translation is in a sense re-creation. Translation historically helps to expand vocabularies and philosophical ideas or aesthetic atmospheres into the language it transfers, to be faithful to its original aesthetic beauty is (perhaps) the aim. Adaptation is a little bit different.<br />There is after all, three level of reading, intentional, symptomatic and adaptive readings. The translator should try to achieve the intentional one. Rather than always sign up how much it loses, it is better to concentrate on what it actually gains. When adaption happens, symptomatic and especially adaptive readings work at its peak (not necessarily, as you can still just do an intentional reading and be faithful).<br />Such driven force exaggerates the dehumanization side of count or revenge. Whether it is good or bad, it depends on artistic choices. Personally, I think no matter how you dislike a person, or do not understand one, you should always keep in mind that they are humans… but to go such effort to create all round characters is tiresome, time-consuming, requires a lot of creative energy. Dehumanization or in a certain degree objectification reminds us that characters are just human or humanlike entities, which could also be turned into symbols. A father symbolises patriarchal values, virgin symbolises purity, boy is about future, and girl is about innocence (even though such gender-oriented symbols really demonstrate a certain aspect of human cultures…).<br />You can take the basic of characters and make it something new, the change of setting is adaptive, and when watch this show, we can do symptomatic reading as well, like feminist criticism, racial representation, LGBTIQ… the either conscious or unconscious side of human minds (influenced by culture, society…), and it is still an valid reading.<br />Whether adaptation should be faithful or not, whether Shakespeare should change King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, or should Romeo and Juliet be adapted into West Side Story? The trouble is that genius has the ‘right’ to rob less talented, or it must be from one genius to another, but that is to see they would success, yet, even though with less talent, you can still be able to explore different aspect through your own adaptive reading, (like gender-switch, racial-switch, time-period-change, or let them be inspiration for you next novel). Furthermore, in different media, things can work differently, especially with visualisation… but all in all, I have not watched the series, and should stop now. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05950740333899110792noreply@blogger.com