Which is not to say this film is utterly novel: audiences must remember Michael Apted's 7-Up TV documentary project.
Filmed in 1973, 20 years after Greene's novel, audiences were more shocked by pea soup than by a wandering priest.
The books are the same story, the same characters; content cut from the early version was put back and the book slightly remastered, as it were, for King's later, more-receptive-to-giant-novels audience.
Without knowing the basic plot of Hawthorne's novel, an audience can easily get confused.
The novel's audience built through word of mouth, and in 1987, Bill Forsyth made it into a movie starring Christine Lahti.
In just a year since Game Of Thrones first aired, the show has built on the novel's audience to become a global hit, watched everywhere from Argentina to Vietnam.
His version of the text is closer to a foreign film with subtitles than a seamlessly translated novel: the audience is meant to partake of the original performance, to experience the sounds and gestures of the primary language, while simultaneously grasping the meanings of the words.
7) "Invisible Cities". Opera based on Calvino novel let audience members roam through Union Station and see its architecture from a new POV.
The first Serial worked because it did something novel: giving audiences a taste of the process of investigative reporting.
Bathed in golden light and laced with poignant close-ups of chubby-cheeked young orphans, "Cider House Rules," Mr. Hallstrom's adaptation of John Irving's epic novel, kept audiences so busy sniffling into their handkerchiefs that some seemed hardly to notice the film's darker themes: abortion, addiction and incest.
