{"id":571,"date":"2012-10-07T21:50:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T04:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/?p=571"},"modified":"2012-10-07T21:54:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T04:54:57","slug":"i-am-he-as-you-are-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/2012\/10\/07\/i-am-he-as-you-are-he\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Am He As You Are He&#8230;..&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I met the Walrus full version\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5kMBpq9Aews?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In <em>&#8220;On the Origin of Adaptations: Rethinking Fidelity Discourse and &#8220;Success&#8221; Biologically&#8221;<\/em>, the authors discuss how an adapted narrative should determine its success not on how well it follows or replicates the original source of inspiration but how it has evolved to form itself into an independent entity. \u00a0I thought a useful exercise to demonstrate various parts of the article would be to examine an example of an adaptation. \u00a0&#8220;I Met The Walrus&#8221; is an animated short film, adapted from an original interview with John Lennon, conducted by a 14 year old Jerry Levitan. \u00a0The original interview was 30 minutes long but for the film, it was edited down to five minutes. \u00a0The short film was hugely successful and won numerous awards including an Emmy and it also secured an Oscar nod. \u00a0It is now also a best selling book with the same title, written by Levitan.<\/p>\n<p>I believe this is an example of a successful adaptation because it speaks to the notion of diversity, as mentioned in the article. \u00a0In this case, it is the different forms of media: an interview, which only existed in audio format was then translated into a visual form which now has been translated into text. \u00a0I&#8217;d also argue that the success behind the short film is also the fact that the medium or vehicle through which the core narrative was delivered was so different from the original source, that it wasn&#8217;t difficult for the adaptation to exist as an independent entity. \u00a0Critics watch this film and see it as its own work of art, as opposed to something that wishes to imitate or recreate the success of an existing piece.<\/p>\n<p>As a general comment in regards to the article, I found it to be a very engaging piece. \u00a0As an future English teacher, I&#8217;m constantly finding ways to bridge the gap between science and the arts, and the fact that the authors managed to use evolutionary theory as an analogy in the context of literary adaptation successfully, made for an interesting read.<\/p>\n<p>For a better version of this video, click here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/movie?v=jmR0V6s3NKk&amp;feature=mv_sr\">I Met The Walrus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources: &#8220;I Met The Walrus&#8221; Wikipedia Entry:\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Met_the_Walrus<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Kiran Aujlay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;On the Origin of Adaptations: Rethinking Fidelity Discourse and &#8220;Success&#8221; Biologically&#8221;, the authors discuss how an adapted narrative should determine its success not on how well it follows or replicates the original source of inspiration but how it has evolved to form itself into an independent entity. \u00a0I thought a useful exercise to demonstrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}