The thing which struck me about The Martian was that the film is an extremely faithful adaptation of the book. As were The Hunger Games and The Social Network
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well sure but this is part of a complex bundled good, the film, and it is probably more important that the film be good. the very existence of these hypothetical offended readers is endogenous to whether the film is good.
Well I think that kind of implies that there's a choice to be made between making a good film and a faithful film. I think these variables are not massively related
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There sometimes is, yeah. Part of my point is that the author's overall interests might be served better by a good than a faithful film. But I suppose that's a complex empirical question that depends on contract terms and sales figures and so on.
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In case it wasn't clear, by "the author" I meant "me, I write things, this is what I think, I speak for everybody"
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