unfilmable
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈfɪlməbl/
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inadaptable
- Some stories simply change too much when they are adapted from written words and are 'unfilmable' in this sense.
Examples
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If anything, people might complain that it is too imaginative and beyond comprehension, since the book has been considered "unfilmable" for years.
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Gravity's Rainbow is entirely unfilmable.
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There is no such thing as an "unfilmable book."
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Instead of complaining that some books are unfilmable, why not concentrate on why those that are?
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David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas seemed unfilmable for many reasons.
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Surely it's not about whether or not a book is unfilmable, but whether you can write an adaptation that keeps to the general spirit of the book while having the room to experiment with how to depict the source material.
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This is the real issue behind most people's ideas of "unfilmable" books: that there's something in the novel's format that wouldn't translate well into movies, for whatever reason.
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Many film critics believe that some novels are simply unfilmable due to their complex narratives.
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The adaptation of the graphic novel was deemed unfilmable by several directors who attempted it.
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He argued that the original story was unfilmable because its themes were too abstract for a visual medium.
Synonyms
Too special to show well in a photo, video or words
Antonyms
How Filmable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unfilmable is made of un- ('not'), film, and -able ('able'), so it means 'not able to be filmed'. We also use it for books or ideas that are too hard to turn into a movie, for example when most of the story is inside someone's mind or is very abstract.