The entry begins:Gabriel García Márquez refused offers for a film based on One Hundred Years of Solitude. He said that a reader, after seeing the movie, would never again be able to see Colonel Aureliano Buendía as anyone but the actor. I have never forgotten that, because it agreed so completely with my experience.Read more about By Blood at the Farrar, Straus and Giroux website.
In a novel, there's a private, interior sense of a story and its characters. Once a film is made, everything becomes...[read on]
The Page 69 Test: By Blood.
My Book, The Movie: By Blood.
--Marshal Zeringue
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