Maybe, in adaptation, the film is never there, is always elsewhere, and maybe this is actually adaptation’s appeal—that what seems settled isn’t, that the wind is always blowing, that the prophecy always goes unfulfilled.
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Kyle Meikle is a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware who researches and writes about adaptation.
Favreau’s rewriting of The Jungle Book attuned me to the messier lines from then to now, to the somewhat less straight lines of the original itself, to its other curves and undulations, to its other reverberations.
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