Still More Musing on Adaptations

[Alex]

 IMHO.  As Alex, our resident snake enthusiast 
> explained, the movie snake is a (fake) Burmese Python.  Why?  
Movies 
> are visual, so perhaps they wanted a large, colorful snake, and 
maybe 
> Brazilian Boas don't fit the bill.  
Really, Brazilian Boas are very colorful, and a boa would have been 
perfect. Colorful, the right size, everything. Perhaps they dont have 
boas at the london zoo, only burms.
Alex