Haikus, Hot Water Bottles, and a Huia: Taika Waititi’s Screen Version of Crump’s Wild Pork and Watercress
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This paper analyzes how screenwriter-director Taika Waititi’s 2016 film Hunt for the Wilderpeople, an adaptation of the prolific New Zealand novelist Barry Crump’s Wild Pork and Watercress (1986), constitutes a thematic re-emphasis of the novel. It examines how Waititi has strengthened the themes of family, loss, and displacement in multiple ways. These include the creation of new characters, as well as back stories for the existing characters, together with the use of haikus as a means of chronicling changes in the mindset of his protagonist and the enhancement of the novel’s possible symbolism with respect to hot water bottles and the extinct New Zealand bird, the huia. It also explores how Waititi’s adaptation employs a three-act structure to tighten the somewhat discursive nature of the novel, while adding new material, including most of its third act. In doing so, this paper demonstrates how film adaptations can serve as commentaries on their literary precursors through re-emphasis and reconstruction.
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This paper analyzes how screenwriter-director Taika Waititi’s 2016 film Hunt for the Wilderpeople, an adaptation of the prolific New Zealand novelist Barry Crump’s Wild Pork and Watercress (1986), constitutes a thematic re-emphasis of the novel. It examines how Waititi has strengthened the themes of family, loss, and displacement in multiple ways. These include the creation of new characters, as well as back stories for the existing characters, together with the use of haikus as a means of chronicling changes in the mindset of his protagonist and the enhancement of the novel’s possible symbolism with respect to hot water bottles and the extinct New Zealand bird, the huia. It also explores how Waititi’s adaptation employs a three-act structure to tighten the somewhat discursive nature of the novel, while adding new material, including most of its third act. In doing so, this paper demonstrates how film adaptations can serve as commentaries on their literary precursors through re-emphasis and reconstruction.
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