Edith Wharton's "The Age Of Innocence"

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"The translation of a book into a motion picture can be a difficult process and is made all the more difficult when the screenwriters feel the need to maintain respect for the structure of the book, for its characterizations, and for its themes. This is why it is usually believed that less literary works are more easily translated, while well-respected literary works present many problems because the author has already presented his or her story in a dense and complex way that marries form and content. The form of a film is quite different from that of a novel, utilizing images rather than imagery, pictures instead of words, actions instead of descriptions, and so on. the recent film production of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is an example in which the filmmakers--director Martin Scorsese and screenwriters Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks... "

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