Each medium to its own

"What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a nove, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential" Milan Kundera in Immortality

From the movie adaptations that I've seen of novels I've loved, I have to agree. Even the ones that have been ever so faithful down to the last letter have been let downs more often than not. The rare exceptions were usually ones which had something the novel didn't and so liked for reasons other than ones I loved the novel for.

Try picture one of my favourite movies "Run Lola Run" as a book! The closest that could come to the movie experience would be if they make a graphic novel out of it. The script was written to be just that - for the visual medium.

Can any of the Murakami novels be made into a movie without losing its very essence!!!

Sunday: Met with some other La Creme De La Creme of India (the title is pure irony - don't assume that it is out of vanity) and wondered at usual where we screwed up. Did everything right. Went to the right schools, have the right accents, have wonderful (and expensive) taste that we allowed ourselves to develop thinking that we'd be able to afford it once we graduate. As one of my friends put it "I am below the poverty line considering the life style that I consider essential to my being". Guess that summed up our situation. Between the 5 of us, we had a grand total of less than 4 grand in the bank and a credit card bill that ran into over 6 digits (to which yours truly and another person present contributed fairly substantially). As my friend D. famously put it "They ought to publish a statutory warning with the brochure - Beware! This degree could lead you to poverty". He wishes that he'd stayed a techie, gone to the US and made his millions (in Rs). As a techie he never had lifestyle aspirations that he has now. Now he has allowed himself to dream. And that has been his ( it isn't just his - also mine and that of other guys like us) downfall. Where you picture yourself when you graduate is in reality where you might get to 10 years later. All of us have decided that we'll just go on and do what we enjoy. Screw the money! As long as we have enough to meet the weekend partying expenses ;-) and the occassional splurge on CDs and clothes. We are in short, the US style consumers of India. Pampered for two years in B-School, you'd think that is going to be the bare minimum at which you'll live afterwards. Little do you know that is going to be the highpoint of your life! Help! I wanna go back to campus now!!! Where do I apply?

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