[MRCA] All the Light We Cannot See

[Dave Merrill]

My wife read the book and found it to be an excellent story. As others have
noted, it is difficult to bring a novel to the screen. Our imaginations are
usually better than what can be put on film.

One non-WWII exception would be "The Martian". The film really captured the
book, which almost reads like a screenplay.

Dave N9ZC

On Mon, Nov 6, 2023, 9:13 AM <mstangelo at comcast.net> wrote:

> This story makes no pretense of being based on any actual events but is
> based on a best seller book about two people with a common love of a
> certain broadcast. From what I've read in reviews the series butchers the
> book.
>
> Mike N2MS
>
> > On 11/06/2023 9:23 AM EST Ray Fantini <rafantini at salisbury.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Drama is always a problem isn’t it, on one hand you have a desire to
> make things historically accurate but on the other you are doing a drama, a
> human story that’s got to have a broad appeal. Between movies,
> documentaries and multi part series to me it appears that the multipart
> series is where things fall apart. Although in terms of accuracy moves as
> of last ten or twenty years have also sucked mightily, anyone else remember
> the 2001 release of Pearl Harbor? At least in the 1971 Tora, Tora, Tora
> they had shots and story built around the SCR-270 with what looked like a
> SCR-270 antenna and shelter.
> > Remember my old man bitching about “most of the Japanese attacking
> aircraft were just repainted AT-6 trainers” but you can’t have it all.
> > At least in “Wind talkers “(2002) they used good copies of TBY radios
> but that movie also has its issues. But with TV and now Streaming series
> can’t think of anything accurate, somehow a lot of that stuff falls into
> the realm of “Hogan’s Heroes” for realism.
> > I remember that show was really popular with all the Vietnam veterans
> back when I was a kid, it was already running in syndication at that time
> but they all loved it. just goes to show that historical accuracy may not
> be much a factor when it comes to entertainment.
> > Going back to this Light thing although the use of code, cyphers and
> pads may be more correct but too much of a chance of most of your audience
> drifting off to texting or something else why showing that.
> > The good thing is that today you have a bucket full of good stuff on
> YouTube, just have to look for it but it’s out there.
> >
> > Ray F/KA3EKH
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