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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 4942246" data-attributes="member: 1288">It's also worth noting--on a broader, more general point--that I believe there's absolutely nothing wrong with taking older stories/characters/concepts and adapting them to modern techniques and theories of storytelling. I'm a big fan of a lot of older fantasy/sci-fi/horror, including those from the "pulp" era. But I can be a fan, and still acknowledge that modern conceits of storytelling have strengths and benefits that older methods of writing did not.Take the notion of realistic dialogue, for instance. The idea that characters in novels should speak as real people do--that dialogue isn't just a place for info-dumping, or making sure the reader knows what the character is thinking--is relatively recent, when measured against how long fiction has existed in our culture and our parent cultures. But I'd argue that it's absolutely an improvement.Or, to put it in other terms, the fact that something is a classic doesn't mean it cannot be improved on--and indeed, many older works are classics in spite of the storytelling precepts and techniques of the time, not because of them. (And yes, I said "many," not "all." Just to be clear.)Now, whether any of the above applies to Solomon Kane--either as a character in general or with this movie in particular--is obviously up to personal taste and interpretation, and subject to seeing the movie as a whole. I'm just throwing it out there as a broader theory and belief, since it seems to be relevent to the topic. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />(And yes, just for the record, I preferred the Lord of the Rings movies to the books. I don't think every change was for the better--some were very much not--but I felt they improved more than they weakened. OTOH, I much prefer Howard's Conan stories--or at least most of the ones I've read--to Arnie's movie.)</blockquote>

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