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steven.wei

News paper reviews of film adaptations of well-known books or plays frequently concentrate on the adaptation’s fidelity. Granted, many people go to such films wanting to see a version of th e original. However, reviewers do a poor job by taking his approach , since faithfulness to the original is irrelevant to the film’s own artistic merit.

Which of the following , if true, most seriously weakens the argument/
a)        the central purpose of newspaper reviews of films is to enable readers to find oujt whether they would enjoy seeing the film.
b)        Often the attemp to capitalize on a well-known novel’s fame by making a film version backfires, since a long novel’s narrative must be overly compressed to fit a film
c)        A film’s artistic merit does not depend on the film s’s relationship to other works of art.
d)        Newspaper reviews of films that are not adaptations of well-known books or plays tend  to concentrate on issues relevant to the film’s artistic merit
e)        Film producers expect adaptations of well-known originals to be more financially successful than other films.