![]() ![]() ![]() I have no trouble believing that the same filmmaker who said “Wouldn’t it be amusing to make a Douglas Sirk movie in 2002?” and “Wouldn’t it be funny to make a Bob Dylan biopic in which each chapter of his life features a different actor in the lead role?” would be similarly inclined to think, “Can I take this Cain novel and adapt it without alteration and still make it feel modern?” Â The dialogue isn’t all verbatim, but it often is and when it’s been altered, most of the tweaks are cosmetic. I wouldn’t want to say with utter conviction that Haynes and Raymond didn’t create a single new scene from whole cloth, but I’d wager the additions could be counted on one hand. A couple conversations were squished together or rearranged, but not dramatically. A few scenes were trimmed, but nothing that I missed. Incident for incident, the book and the miniseries are nearly identical. ![]() Haynes and co-writer Jon Raymond haven’t adapted Cain’s novel so much as they brought the book on-set as a shooting script. ![]()
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