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This split fol\u00adlows the Acad\u00ade\u00admy Awards norm that only the most seri\u00adous-<\/span>pre\u00adsent\u00ading<\/i> dra\u00admas are wor\u00adthy of the high\u00adest prizes, regard\u00adless of source mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal or pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion. Air\u00adport nov\u00adels seem to more con\u00adsis\u00adtent\u00adly receive this pres\u00adtige treat\u00adment result\u00ading in box office wins, Oscar nom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtions, and more wide\u00adspread respect for the work as opposed to their beach read coun\u00adter\u00adparts. We can even make a\u00a0pre\u00addic\u00adtion and check back on it in sev\u00ader\u00adal years: Tay\u00adlor Jenk\u00adins Reid\u2019s his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal romance\u00a0<\/span>The Sev\u00aden Hus\u00adbands of Eve\u00adlyn Hugo\u00a0<\/i>grew in pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty on Book\u00adTok in 2021<\/span> and is set to receive an eager\u00adly-await\u00aded Net\u00adflix adap\u00adta\u00adtion, announced in March 2022<\/span>. By all accounts, the book falls firm\u00adly into the beach read cat\u00ade\u00adgo\u00adry, and although it remains to be seen how the trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion from page to screen will take place, if we take the beach read\/\u200bairport nov\u00adel split at face val\u00adue, it will be hard to expect a\u00a0full pres\u00adtige treat\u00adment for the\u00a0film.<\/span><\/p>\n Exist\u00ading IP<\/span> seems to be a\u00a0con\u00adtribut\u00ading fac\u00adtor to this false dichoto\u00admy, where works that have not been pre-assigned to a\u00a0par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar arche\u00adtype are grant\u00aded with more wig\u00adgle room. If there ever were to be a \u200b\u201c<\/span>pres\u00adtige beach read\u201d this sum\u00admer that defies these cat\u00ade\u00adgories, it would be a\u00a0hypo\u00adthet\u00adi\u00adcal\u00a0<\/span>Mate\u00adri\u00adal\u00adists<\/i> book \u2013 if it were to have been adapt\u00aded from a\u00a0nov\u00adel in the first place. Here, roman\u00adtic love tri\u00adan\u00adgles meet a\u00a0star-stud\u00added cast, all with an Oscar-nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded writer-direc\u00adtor backed by A24<\/span><\/span>. But Celine Song\u2019s sto\u00adry is an orig\u00adi\u00adnal one and not craft\u00aded from the dredges of a\u00a0New York Times best\u00adseller, plac\u00ading it out\u00adside of this dis\u00adtort\u00aded Venn diagram.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Per\u00adhaps the divide is a\u00a0fes\u00adter\u00ading symp\u00adtom of a\u00a0larg\u00ader call to end\u00adless\u00adly cat\u00ade\u00adgorise, label, and over-digest, also built on a\u00a0trend of using devel\u00adop\u00ading extant IP<\/span> into mar\u00adketable new works rather than orig\u00adi\u00adnal ideas. The expec\u00adta\u00adtion seems to be that, in order to cap\u00adture the book\u2019s audi\u00adence, an adap\u00adta\u00adtion must be made to repli\u00adcate every\u00adthing that came before, arti\u00adfi\u00adcial\u00adly forc\u00ading books into two camps and two dis\u00adtinct visu\u00adal and nar\u00adra\u00adtive styles. Net\u00adflix exec\u00adu\u00adtives<\/span>\u00a0report\u00aded\u00adly<\/span><\/a> asked screen\u00adwrit\u00aders to \u200b\u201c<\/span>have this char\u00adac\u00adter announce what they\u2019re doing so that view\u00aders who have this pro\u00adgram on in the back\u00adground can fol\u00adlow along\u201d, and oth\u00ader turns to remove nuance and sub\u00adtext in favour of telling view\u00aders just how to watch their\u00a0media.<\/span><\/p>\n Brand\u00ading and adver\u00adtis\u00ading for the small screen, in turn, becomes eas\u00adi\u00ader when the \u200b\u201c<\/span>sug\u00adgest\u00aded\u201d sec\u00adtion is just a\u00a0rep\u00ade\u00adti\u00adtion of the same film in dif\u00adfer\u00adent fonts; this is the case for both stereo\u00adtyp\u00adi\u00adcal beach reads and air\u00adport nov\u00adels. While beach read adap\u00adta\u00adtions become the spright\u00adly back\u00adground noise for doing laun\u00addry, air\u00adport nov\u00adels are instead meta\u00admor\u00adpho\u00adsised into the newest high-brow must-watch, cast in deep hues of moody blue and grey. Take Alfon\u00adso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s Cate Blanchett-led\u00a0<\/span>Dis\u00adclaimer\u00a0<\/i>adap\u00adta\u00adtion, for exam\u00adple, from Ren\u00e9e Knight\u2019s 2015<\/span> psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal thriller of the same name, filled with the genre\u2019s finest plot twists. The series even enjoyed a\u00a0pre\u00admi\u00e8re at the 2024<\/span> Toron\u00adto Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Film Fes\u00adti\u00adval before its offi\u00adcial Apple TV<\/span>+ release, cement\u00ading it as\u00a0<\/span>the<\/i> series of the sea\u00adson brought direct\u00adly to you by an auteur him\u00adself. And yet, like\u00a0<\/span>Con\u00adclave<\/i>, many crit\u00adics and view\u00aders were scep\u00adti\u00adcal of the pres\u00adtige exte\u00adri\u00ador it claimed to por\u00adtray. Maybe pulp real\u00adly can\u2019t be hid\u00adden, after\u00a0all.<\/span><\/p>\n Jus\u00adtice for beach reads, which, regret\u00adful\u00adly, do not get to hide behind this fa\u00e7ade of faux sparkle, even at the start. They sit out in all their glo\u00adry, wait\u00ading for anoth\u00ader unsus\u00adpect\u00ading per\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtive Tol\u00adstoy read\u00ader (or maybe Tarkovsky obses\u00adsive) to taser them into sub\u00admis\u00adsion, bound sole\u00adly for the Book\u00adTok girlies and maybe even beset by celebri\u00adty scan\u00addal. There\u2019s noth\u00ading like a\u00a0good beach read film con\u00adsumed with a\u00a0wine spritz in hand, and they\u2019d gleam fur\u00adther if we gave them the time to be tak\u00aden as seri\u00adous\u00adly as their air\u00adport nov\u00adel coun\u00adter\u00adparts. It\u2019s time for this oeu\u00advre to shine, where we can proud\u00adly claim to love the soapy won\u00adders that it has to offer, on the page and in the cinema.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n