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P.D. James

A collection of 3 posts

On Songs & Albums

Looking Elsewhere: Dec. 4, 2014

Here are a few recent distractions and discoveries from elsewhere on the web that gave me fleeting moments of relief from the storms of a Bad News Week.

The Art of Adaptation

"Children of Men": Literary sabotage, or award-winning adaptation?

The debate continues: Did the screenwriters for Children of Men take a novel written by a Christian, which offered a profoundly Christian vision of human depravity and redemption, and turn it into an attack on Christianity? Or were they just interested in taking P.D. James' premise and exploiting

On Movies & Media

Cuaron on "Children of Men" and Christian Themes

Thanks to Steven Greydanus for catching this revealing admission from Alfonso Cuarón regarding Children of Men: Cuarón: There was a script and I read the beginning of it and didn’t like it. I wasn’t interested in making a science fiction film and secondly I wasn’t interested in