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Mike Nichols Describes the Changes Made When Adapting "Postcards From the Edge" to Film

Nichols: Well, the book was – Deliberately it was a series of sketches and episodes and didn’t have a spine or central conflict that a movie needs. And Carrie Fisher and I thought that the situation underlying the sketches in the book, the drug problems, was the family situation, and that it was the most interesting for the movie. And also the rehab process, although very important obviously in real life, has been dealt with so much that when we did it, it tended to seem like a two-hour movie of the week. We were more interested in the family relationship and the sort of milieu of Hollywood.
Nichols: Well, the book was – Deliberately it was a series of sketches and episodes and didn’t have a spine or central conflict that a movie needs. And Carrie Fisher and I thought that the situation underlying the sketches in the book, the drug problems, was the family situation, and that it was the most interesting for the movie. And also the rehab process, although very important obviously in real life, has been dealt with so much that when we did it, it tended to seem like a two-hour movie of the week. We were more interested in the family relationship and the sort of milieu of Hollywood.
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Credit:
Pyramid Productions
Editorial #:
1299006523
Collection:
Archive Films: Editorial
Date created:
September 08, 1990
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Clip length:
00:00:50:27
Location:
United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 29.97i
Originally shot on:
Betacam SP NTSC 486 29.97i
Source:
Archive Films Editorial
Object name:
a05049_03_1