Contemporizing the Classics. Poe, Shakespeare, Doyle

✅ Contemporizing the Classics: Poe, Shakespeare, Doyle is a how-to on the art 🎨 and ➕ craft of transforming a classic into a feature-film 🎞️ screenplay with a modern storyline. The introduction probes an issue that weaves throughout: role of artistic 👨‍🎨 license in balancing fidelity to the original versus 🆚 dramatic needs of the script. Contemporization of a classic being the most flagrant form of dramatic license, the introduction presents 🎁 three 3️⃣ guidelines for a considered exercise thereof. Each part debuts a feature-film 🎞️ script that resets a classic work ⚙️(s) in the present 🎁. Part One 1️⃣ offers a contemporary visualization of Macbeth, in the process turning an Elizabethan tragedy into a dramatic comedy. Part Two 2️⃣ applies the guidelines to several renowned works ⚙️ by Edgar Allan Poe. Arthur Conan Doyles The Hound of the Baskervilles having frequently screened as a period piece 🧩, Part Three 3️⃣ gives 🎁➡️ the hound a twenty-first 🥇 century twist.

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