The poll does indicate that and it matters about as much as the predictions of a psychic clam. Clinton and Sanders will both use any tool that makes them appear to be the more electable, so we need to be critical of the tools they use.

Right, but that poll was the NYT’s argument, not Hillary’s.

Well, you’re looking at a national poll, taken before the primaries, so it really says nothing.

I had the incongruous experience of finding it boring and beautiful. I really bought that 3D had made it to a new place, but would have walked out, without it.

It was a total no-brainer!

I really did this.

I see it, but I liked reading it as partly circumstantial. The characters (and their character) were so different that I never thought they could be the same person. I guess that’s just a factor of reading something with a little ambiguity (which is why we get to enjoy this conversation at all)

I read it two times. I acknowledge that the characters have some level of “memory” of the previous character, but saying that they’re the same person is, again, a total oversimplification. I guess that the abstraction of memory is a little tricky, but that doesn’t mean you have to assume that these are the same people…

I used the change of settings example, because the previous poster had mentioned that that stretches the definition of an adaptation. My argument was that changing how the story is tied together is a greater change. I provided examples of changing settings to show that that kind of change is minor.

So you’re saying that they were for his brother...

The implied thing is more the case in the book. It’s never clear that it’s really reincarnation. More like relation.

Changes to setting are very common in adaptations. There are frequent modern, dystopian, and culture changed versions of Shakespeare’s plays, but no one would claim that they’re “barely adaptations”.

I guess that regarding experience, I would agree that it’s difficult, but say that professional growth outside of work is not.

I think factor in the match, but ROI is separate. Experience and personal growth are easily achieved outside of work. With you on lunches. However, when you meet people with hour or longer commutes, their hourly rate is a ridiculous conceit.

I’m sure that you saw that I used a quotation block for the phrase. That’s because it’s repeated about 25 times in Dead Man, said to Johnny Depp’s character by a Native American character. I realize that few people have seen the movie, so maybe I should have been more clear about it.

You are correct in that the movie may be a very different story than the book that acted as its source. It happens frequently. In this case, I could comfortably say that by doing this, the movie appears to simplify the story.

But your hourly work rate isn’t the same as the value of your time per hour. If you make $30/hour working, you have to calculate in commute (time and cost), any work specific grooming, cost of any special attire or equipment, increased cost of meals associated with work. Your hourly rate drops precipitously.

That’s why I specified that I’d only read the book. Given its length, the book’s connections are probably able to be more subtle and numerous. In the case of the book, the subtlty is what makes it good.

^{That is a way oversimplification of what’s going on in the story. I’ll admit that I’ve only read the book, but there’s no implication that these are the same person or that they should be similar in any way.}

I’ll handle this for you.