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Mr. Bredes, I bought a VHS of "Hang Tough", and I made a DVD copy of it, if you want one. I just re read "Hard Feelings," and you're right, the movie is nothing compared to the book. It's just an 80s made for video movie, I don't think they tried very hard, although I thought the leads who played Bernie and Winnie gave good performances. As the book is Bernie's inner dialogue, translating it into a script with any kind of depth is probably just not possible. I enjoyed rereading it again. Some books you read and just forget but I had remembered the details of Hard Feelings pretty well, Thanks for writing it.
Thanks again, Kent. I do think the producers and the production company really did try, but of course the cinematic from does have its storytelling limitations. W.D. Richter, who wrote the script, is an excellent screenwriter. He used a lot of my dialogue to good effect, but the novel's plot, on the face of it, is pretty straightforward.
The story's impetus and character, as you suggest, come from the first-person voice of Bernie, which of course is lost in film, unless you resort of a a lot of voice-over, which rarely works very well, except minimally.
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Mr. Bredes, I bought a VHS of "Hang Tough", and I made a DVD copy of it, if you want one. I just re read "Hard Feelings," and you're right, the movie is nothing compared to the book. It's just an 80s made for video movie, I don't think they tried very hard, although I thought the leads who played Bernie and Winnie gave good performances. As the book is Bernie's inner dialogue, translating it into a script with any kind of depth is probably just not possible. I enjoyed rereading it again. Some books you read and just forget but I had remembered the details of Hard Feelings pretty well, Thanks for writing it.
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Thanks again, Kent. I do think the producers and the production company really did try, but of course the cinematic from does have its storytelling limitations. W.D. Richter, who wrote the script, is an excellent screenwriter. He used a lot of my dialogue to good effect, but the novel's plot, on the face of it, is pretty straightforward. The story's impetus and character, as you suggest, come from the first-person voice of Bernie, which of course is lost in film, unless you resort of a a lot of voice-over, which rarely works very well, except minimally.
