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An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Still
Originals
Ideas
Original
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Leads
Book
Missing
Goer
Already
Illuminate
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Adaptation
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Theme
Character
Cinema

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