Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Book vs. Movie Discussion | Story Garden Publishing

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt is a “nonfiction novel” published in 1994 that focuses on an infamous murder trial that happened in Savannah, Georgia in the 1980s. The book spent over 200 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and was adapted into a Clint Eastwood movie a few years after publication. Here, editor Diane Callahan and author Hero Bowen compare the book and movie, and talk about how it inspired their urban fantasy project Wish Hunter, which is set in Savannah.
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[@nocturnus009]

There is a really fascinating discussion to expand & cogitate here about adaptation versus revisiting. In filmmaking you have the benefit of the 15 beat 10 genre save the cat template. For the written prose there is the fact that you are not as limited. For good & bad fortune. We can work our divergent thinking muscles to expand options, but there eventually needs to be a convergence to what fits the medium. Converging to what will look like a multiverse of different final stories. The book might always be better, that might be a function of books not needing to overcome a code era like Hollywood a century ago.

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I just finished the book 2 days ago. I was anxious to see the movie. I streamed it last night and sat down with my husband, who did not read the book. Just 30 minutes into the movie, I was so disappointed and my husband was totally lost! It was horribly done and was NOTHING like the book! I hated the movie. Joe Pesci would be a better Joe Odom. That’s who I pictured.

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TRUTH.