WriterDave t1_iybzomu wrote on November 30, 2022 at 6:58 AM

Reply to comment by GetToSreppin in Interesting essay on Steven Soderbergh’s SOLARIS, which is now 20 years old. by Bullingdon1973

Not according to the author of the book:

> "...to my best knowledge, the book was not dedicated to erotic problems of people in outer space... As Solaris' author I shall allow myself to repeat that I only wanted to create a vision of a human encounter with something that certainly exists, in a mighty manner perhaps, but cannot be reduced to human concepts, ideas or images. This is why the book was entitled Solaris and not Love in Outer Space."

— Stanislaw Lem, 2002

Point is, if Sodeburgh wanted to make "Love in Outer Space" he shouldn't have called it Solaris.

'Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead' is brilliant... and look -- they didn't call it 'Hamlet.'

GetToSreppin t1_iydenkq wrote on November 30, 2022 at 4:02 PM

I'm not sure if you knew this or not but soderberg didn't write the book. His movie isn't the book and thusly has a different pov and message. This is the core idea of what adaptations can be.