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> [Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/here-s-how-adaptation-works-almost-everything-in-the-movie-is-in-the/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

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> [I think any musical has so many moving parts and the challenge is unifying all the moving parts in particular because you have the camera and now it's all about adaptation and what works in one medium doesn't necessarily work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-e-platt/i-think-any-musical-has-so-many-moving-parts-and-the-challenge-is/)

[Marc E. Platt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-e-platt/)

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