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The Long Song Book vs. Screen: How Close Was The Adaptation?
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The Long Song condenses approximately 75 years into three short hours. Although the bulk of the story focuses on July (Tamara Lawrance) in adolescence and young adulthood, the viewer also sees flashes of her as a child and as a grandmother. What are the changes screenwriters Sarah Williams and Andrea Levy made to bring Levy’s novel to the small screen?
Miniseries adaptations always have to consider screen time vs. detail in addition to formatting differences. July’s first-person narration was very easy to convert into voiceovers. The script for the series makes July’s dialect easier to understand as the text demands a phonetic spelling of the Jamaican patois dialect. The show scripts removed many instances where the n-word was printed and replaced them with negro. PBS also censored other curse words throughout the miniseries. ....

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