Craft guide / 2 tracks

Inventing beyond the page

Ridley Scott compresses and reorders a 600-page novel, using editorial structure, accumulating information, and character tension to make Hannibal move as a film. Ron Howard expands a picture book into a feature-length world, grounding every invented street, prop, effect, and performance in Theodor Geisel's visual language. Together, the tracks show adaptation working in opposite directions while asking the same question: what must cinema invent when the page cannot supply the finished shape?