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Re: U96, Szenen aus dem Seekrieg
Posted by:
Stefan
()
Date: December 02, 2003 06:28PM
<HTML>Hi Meg,
I just finished it reading again on Sunday. Well, what should I say?
Comparing the book with the script is very unfair to the script. The book has a depth in its characters and story which the script had to achieve via the media movie. Therefore the book (for me) is the top.
I would like to know why LGB put in the new story regarding Maat Albrecht. For me it does not fit in in the script. It is more a story beside the story.
When I remember right there were complaints from uboat-vets that in the book the part of the officers was too highlighted in comparison to the part of the crew (they were only there for the dirty words).
May be this is an explanation why the script puts more light on them (but still no explanation for the Albrecht part)
I would suggest that LGB has reacted on the feedback from the book, but that's only a wild guess.
To get a fair comparison between the movie and the script, I would need to read the script for the movie. (Wasn't it written by Petersen himself? If so, he must have had good support)
The script from LGB would not have been such a hit as the Petersen one. It is too detailed and there is not much stuff in it, that interest more than a handfull of uboat-freaks.
I don't know how long the Petersen script is, but the LGB script was rejected because it was "too mighty". Well, only 340 pages in great letters and a lot of it only descriptions for the plots. How many hours movie should get out of that? The story is only for one (Bless God, that I'm NOT a director!) :-)
To get it more confusing. My top theme from LGB is "The fortress". That book turned into a script would make realy a looooooooooong movie. But where are the millions of Star-Wars and Lord of the ring fans which would like to see that! :-(
In finishing that writing it just came in my mind that the script (for me) is not LGB-style. If someone had shown me that script without saying that it is from the great beastmaster from Feldafing, I would not recognise it. All other books (even "Tage und Nächte steigen aus dem Strom" and "Jäger der Weltmeere") have the LGB style I like so much. That script definetively not. May be because it is not a novell?
BTW: I'm accountant and my results during my school time in German were not so best, so please no criticism for that "Buchinterpretation" (I fear, it is even not that, even more a comparison...) ;-)
Regards
Stefan</HTML>
I just finished it reading again on Sunday. Well, what should I say?
Comparing the book with the script is very unfair to the script. The book has a depth in its characters and story which the script had to achieve via the media movie. Therefore the book (for me) is the top.
I would like to know why LGB put in the new story regarding Maat Albrecht. For me it does not fit in in the script. It is more a story beside the story.
When I remember right there were complaints from uboat-vets that in the book the part of the officers was too highlighted in comparison to the part of the crew (they were only there for the dirty words).
May be this is an explanation why the script puts more light on them (but still no explanation for the Albrecht part)
I would suggest that LGB has reacted on the feedback from the book, but that's only a wild guess.
To get a fair comparison between the movie and the script, I would need to read the script for the movie. (Wasn't it written by Petersen himself? If so, he must have had good support)
The script from LGB would not have been such a hit as the Petersen one. It is too detailed and there is not much stuff in it, that interest more than a handfull of uboat-freaks.
I don't know how long the Petersen script is, but the LGB script was rejected because it was "too mighty". Well, only 340 pages in great letters and a lot of it only descriptions for the plots. How many hours movie should get out of that? The story is only for one (Bless God, that I'm NOT a director!) :-)
To get it more confusing. My top theme from LGB is "The fortress". That book turned into a script would make realy a looooooooooong movie. But where are the millions of Star-Wars and Lord of the ring fans which would like to see that! :-(
In finishing that writing it just came in my mind that the script (for me) is not LGB-style. If someone had shown me that script without saying that it is from the great beastmaster from Feldafing, I would not recognise it. All other books (even "Tage und Nächte steigen aus dem Strom" and "Jäger der Weltmeere") have the LGB style I like so much. That script definetively not. May be because it is not a novell?
BTW: I'm accountant and my results during my school time in German were not so best, so please no criticism for that "Buchinterpretation" (I fear, it is even not that, even more a comparison...) ;-)
Regards
Stefan</HTML>
