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First though, writer Nick Hornby, whose latest screenplay is an adaptation of Colm Toibin's novel Brooklyn, which opens in cinemas this weekend. This is his third major work for the screen if you don't count his own early adaptation of his book Fever Pitch or other people's scripts from his novels like High Fidelity or About a Boy. Nick was Oscar and BAFTA nominated in 2010 for An Education. And recently, he scripted the Reese Witherspoon-led Wild from Cheryl Strayed's memoir. The source for the film, Colm Toibin's novel, is powerful but notably understated. It's about decisions by default, about circumstances shaping destiny, and its pages are hardly laced with direct speech, which for the screen can be a challenge. So I asked Nick Hornby how he set about taking an interior story out onto the big screen.
"Well, I was surprised that it wasn't as internal as I'd feared. Eilis, the central character is actually very watchful and things happen to her, which is a different kind of problem. But it's not as if everything happens in her head. It's small events happening outside. And the challenge really was to amplify it a little bit without losing the delicacy of the original." | 
发表于 2016-11-16 19:51:14