Steve Vineberg concludes that the film of The Dead stands as "proof that a man of talent, adapting the work of a man of genius, can create something unforgettable." (Vineberg, 1993, 307). James Naremore remarks that Joyce's "masterpiece of high modernism is turned into something more immediately accessible, like a well-made movie." (Naremor, 1991, 16). 1Discussing Kurosawa's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth for Throne of Blood, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto observes that "fidelity is a misleading and unproductive notion because it establishes a hierarchical relation between original and adaptation… The discourse of adaptation is therefore less the discourse of aesthetics than that of power." (Yoshimoto, 2000, 258-9) Typical commentaries on Huston's The Dead – and I have selected as examples only critics who praise the movie – confirm Yoshimoto's assertion.
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