LoginThe Shadow Line (Smuga cienia) (1976)
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Joseph Conrad's short story The Shadow Line has a clear plot, which is easy to follow; nonetheless, this writer's prose is difficult to adapt for film.
If you want to be faithful to a novel, which you are adapting for film purposes, you must deconstruct it completely and put the pieces back together again, so that it would be able to live on screen. When I think about adaptation I recall what Hamlet said to his mother: "I must be cruel, only to be kind". I wasn't cruel enough to The Shadow Line, I pursued the mood, the understatement, the elusive nature of words,. And so I created an inarticulate, elusive and uncomm
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