A good bit back, I wrote a piece about authors who loathed adaptations of their work. For example, Stanley Kubrick managed to make two films—A Clockwork Orange and The Shining—which are considered among some of the best he ever directed, which also pissed off the authors of the source material something awful. Stephen King hates Kubrick's version of The Shining and on different occasions called it “cold” and lacking in any sort of emotional connection or story arc. For King, his book was about a normal man who‘s struggling with alcoholism while being a father and husband and goes crazy, where Kubrick's film is about the stylistic visuals which occur around a dude who’s crazy from scene one and goes absolutely bonkers in a hotel with his family. King has also stated that he disliked what Kubrick did with the character of Wendy Torrance, and feels the depiction was sexist.
The late great Prince did not like covers of his music, so much so he once had cease and desist complaints sent to Twitter and Vine over six second video clips of people singing his songs. Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” is actually a cover of a song written by Prince for a side project called The Family. While at the time of its release Prince seemed to be flattered by the track’s success, he seems to have come to believe covers destroyed his ownership of his own work.
If there’s a consistent complaint among the more famous examples, it’s the idea that someone is using someone else’s work to make an interpretation of it which the original artist doesn’t agree with or thinks misses the point. On the other hand is the argument that art should not be limited to what an artist thinks it should mean and is open to all sorts of permutations and interpretations.
Something similar is happening right now in New York, where there’s an argument over whether two works compliment each other. Last month, as part of International Women’s Day, investment firm State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) placed a bronze sculpture in the path of Wall Street’s “Charging Bull.” Entitled “Fearless Girl,” and sculpted by Kristen Visbal, it depicts a young girl staring down the bull as a statement of women being up to the task of facing the challenges in the financial sector. However, the artist who created the “Charging Bull,” Arturo Di Modica, objects to the installation of “Fearless Girl” alongside his work, wants it removed, and argues it changes and distorts the meaning of his art.
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