![]() ![]() I voiced my concerns with Hollywood's glamorization of trauma and their misrepresentation of Walls' experience with poverty. While Walls' story is remarkable the contents of the book aren't exactly lighthearted. ![]() I wrote about this topic in The Vindicator last fall, after I saw the film adaption of one of my favorite books, The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, a memoir. The line between fiction and reality is blurred in Hollywood, especially in cases of dealing with the lives of actual people and things that happened to them. More often than not, authors' voices are lost during production, their stories placed into the hands of screenwriters and producers.īut what about the memoir genre? Very few memoirs have successfully been turned into films - usually when a work of nonfiction is brought to the screen, the words "based on a true story" appear during the opening credits. When works of fiction are turned into films, we're quick to notice the differences from page to screen, and most of the time are left dissatisfied because they didn't meet the expectations of our imaginations. You know how the saying goes: the book is always better. ![]()
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