A question
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ur53486799 — 9 years ago(December 13, 2016 02:49 PM)
American Gods
is a single novel. It's terrific. Read it.
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linbrikat — 9 years ago(December 14, 2016 02:42 AM)
There's no rule but there are certain things that you can do with the written word that just don't translate well to the screen. In the book Shadow is quite a passive character who observes things happening around him and doesn't say very much but apparently he won't be quite like that in the show. Also, some characters will have a larger part in the show than in the book - for example Mad Sweeney who is really only a minor character in the book, will appear in more than the two scenes he does there.
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footnotegirl — 9 years ago(December 15, 2016 09:11 AM)
Because the visual medium and the textual medium are two very different ways of getting information across. You can express things in text (such as interior thoughts) that are not really possible in a movie or TV show too much narration quickly bores and/or annoys viewers. Also, the amount of activity in a single book, if everything were included, would often take several seasons to fully cover.
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alphabase17 — 9 years ago(December 27, 2016 08:36 AM)
Logically it is impossible because the moment someone decides to render the written word visually s/he imposes their own subjective vision on the viewers. What will seem exactly true to some viewers will not be accepted as such by others.
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Ranguvar18 — 9 years ago(December 13, 2016 06:01 PM)
First, read the book, it's great.
Second, from the little footage we have and from other news sources, it looks like it's going to be pretty darn close. There are a few changes to reflect the time(a certain character is portrayed much different in the show than in the book to reflect how times have changed since the book was written in 2001), but other than that it should be very close to the book.
And there's onecertain scene that the showrunners have promised will appear. Those who have read the book will know which scene I mean.
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