In a message dated 03/22/2000 9:23:50 PM Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: <<True enough. But at some point, at least, a film must be viewed within its own context -- exclusive of source material. And it must be allowed that the experience of the film as secondary medium (i.e., adaptation from a primary source) is not necessarily superior to the experience of the film as sole medium. >> So? What does this have to do with the view that Monty Clift in A Place In The Sun is evil. And who said anything about the film "A Place In The Sun" being superior (or inferior) for that matter to the novel that it was adapted from. Ira Joel Haber Cinemage Books ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu