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Journal Article
How Not to Adapt Under Western Eyes to Film
2020
Overview
This article presents a history of several attempts to produce a film version of Conrad's novel Under Western Eyes. It focuses specifically on the work of Adam Gillon in this area. In Gillon's co-authored screen play, The Conspirators, and his own screen play, The Betrayers, wholesale changes were made to Conrad's novel to accommodate the needs of film and market. Characters were deleted and added, as were entire scenes. This article also demonstrates how these screen attempts all shied away from the novel's dark conclusions and altered the protagonist's character. These adaptations were never able to find a film company willing to produce the film. In short, these attempts at adaptation, while cognizant of the strictures of film, nevertheless move too far from Conrad's novel, away from its pessimism and toward a romance far from Conrad's intent.
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
