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Titolo: Under the Dome - A Letter From Stephen

Delusione e tanta noia. Quasi peggio di Defiance.
 
http://www.stephenking.com/promo/utd_on_tv/letter.html
 
 
For those of you out there in Constant Reader Land who are feeling miffed
because the TV version of Under the Dome varies considerably from the book
version, hereï¿½s a little story.
 
    Near the end of his life, and long after his greatest novels were
written, James M. Cain agreed to be interviewed by a student reporter who
covered culture and the arts for his college newspaper. This young man
began his time with Cain by bemoaning how Hollywood had changed books such
as The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. Before he could
properly get into his rant, the old man interrupted him by pointing to a
shelf of books behind his desk. ï¿½The movies didnï¿½t change them a bit, son,ï¿½
he said. ï¿½Theyï¿½re all right up there. Every word is the same as when I
wrote them.ï¿½
 
    I feel the same way about Under the Dome. If you loved the book when
you first read it, itï¿½s still there for your perusal. But that doesnï¿½t mean
the TV series is bad, because itï¿½s not. In fact, itï¿½s very good. And, if
you look closely, youï¿½ll see that most of my characters are still there,
although some have been combined and others have changed jobs. Thatï¿½s also
true of the big stuff, like the supermarket riot, the reason for all that
propane storage, and the bookï¿½s thematic concerns with diminishing
resources.
 
    Many of the changes wrought by Brian K. Vaughan and his team of writers
have been of necessity, and I approved of them wholeheartedly. Some have
been occasioned by their plan to keep the Dome in place over Chesterï¿½s Mill
for months instead of little more than a week, as is the case in the book.
Other story modifications are slotting into place because the writers have
completely re-imagined the source of the Dome.
 
    That such a re-imagining had to take place was my only serious concern
when the series was still in the planning stages, and that concern was
purely practical. If the solution to the mystery were the same on TV as in
the book, everyone would know it in short order, which would spoil a lot of
the fun (besides, plenty of readers didnï¿½t like my solution, anyway). By
the same token, it would spoil things if you guys knew the arcs of the
characters in advance. Some who die in the bookï¿½Angie, for instanceï¿½live in
the TV version of Chesterï¿½s Millï¿½at least for a while. And some who live in
the book may not be as lucky during the run of the show. Just sayinï¿½.
 
    Listen, Iï¿½ve always been a situational writer. My idea of what to do
with a plot is to shoot it before it can breed. Itï¿½s true that when I start
a story, I usually have a general idea of where itï¿½s going to finish up,
but in many cases I end up in a different place entirely (for instance, I
fully expected Ben Mears to die at the end of ï¿½Salemï¿½s Lot, and Susannah
Dean was supposed to pop off at the end of Song of Susannah). ï¿½The book is
the boss,ï¿½ Alfred Bester used to say, and what that means to me is the
situation is the boss. If you play fair with the charactersï¿½and let them
play their parts according to their strengths and weaknessesï¿½you can never
go wrong. Itï¿½s impossible.
 
    Thereï¿½s only one element of my novel that absolutely had to be the same
in the novel and the show, and thatï¿½s the Dome itself. Itï¿½s best to think
of that novel and what youï¿½re seeing week-to-week on CBS as a case of
fraternal twins. Both started in the same creative womb, but you will be
able to tell them apart. Or, if youï¿½re of a sci-fi bent, think of them as
alternate versions of the same reality.
 
    As for me, Iï¿½m enjoying the chance to watch that alternate reality play
out; I still think thereï¿½s no place like Dome.
 
    As for you, Constant Reader, feel free to take the original down from
your bookshelf anytime you want. Nothing between the covers has changed a
bit.
 
Stephen King
June 27th, 2013 
-- 
Jolan Tru
Filippo "Hytok" Simone
http://perestroika.iobloggo.com/
 

Visto il terzo episodio e l'aria è sempre più stantia.
 
Vogliono davvero farlo durare mesi quando nel libro la situazione era 
già irremediabilmente compromessa dopo pochi giorni?
 
PS: Ma Barbie non si lava mai le mani? Bah!
 
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