In Hollywood, everything is recycled. Sets are reused time and time again, actors replay the same role in several different movies, and, of course, plots are “borrowed” from all over the world to be remade into movies. It’s no secret that books make up a large portion of these plundered story sources, and so it would be silly to expect sports movies to be any better. Many sports movies, just like many movies of all kinds, find their origin in novels that have been largely forgotten. Instead of just accepting this as the new world order however, we want to give the books a fighting chance. We’re not saying that some of these stories aren’t told better on the screen than on the page, we just think the page deserves a shot to stand up for itself.
Sports Books vs The Movies They Inspired
In Hollywood, everything is recycled. Sets are reused time and time again, actors replay the same role in several different movies, and, of course, plots are “borrowed” from all over the world to be remade into movies. It’s no secret that books make up a large portion of these plundered story sources, and so it would be silly to expect sports movies to be any better. Many sports movies, just like many movies of all kinds, find their origin in novels that have been largely forgotten. Instead of just accepting this as the new world order however, we want to give the books a fighting chance. We’re not saying that some of these stories aren’t told better on the screen than on the page, we just think the page deserves a shot to stand up for itself.
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