Great Books Dont Make Great Films, but Nickel Boys Is a Glorious Exception

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News Source : The New Yorker

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  • The movie’s title refers to Black youths (teens and younger) who are inmates of the Nickel Academy, a segregated and abusive “reform school” in rural northern Florida
  • Few films have ever rendered a major work of fiction so innovatively yet so faithfully
Its harder to adapt a great book than an average one. Literary greatness often inhibits directors, who end up paying prudent homage to the source rather than engaging in the bold revisions that succe [+9014 chars]

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