Salman Rushdie is the latest to join a chorus of figures who have problems with Danny Boyle's Oscar winning film, Slumdog Millionaire. He told an Atlanta audience that it "piles impossibility on impossibility."
Rushdie made his remarks during a speech to more than 1,000 people at Atlanta's Emory University on Sunday ahead of the Oscar ceremony. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says author was unhappy about several scenes of this Bombay-based film, including one in which characters wind up at the Taj Mahal — 1,000 miles from the previous scene. Rushdie is from Bombay and has explored the city in detail in his novels.
“Again, the problem with this adaptation begins with the work being adapted,” he said. The author criticized other Oscar winners adapted from books, including The Reader and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Rushdie attacked “bad social adaptations,” when people cave in to fear and censor themselves or others. He urged people and society to honour essential truths.
“Wishing to create better understanding between peoples, they can seek to prevent the expression of opinions,” he said. “Seeking to calm the violent hotheads in their midst, societies can try to appease them, and so give the violent hotheads the notion that their violence and hotheadedness is effective.”
Slumdog Millionaire won eight Oscars on Sunday, including best picture.
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