Still More Musing on Adaptations

[Cindy C.]

Cindy wrote:

>  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.  

Alex wrote:

> 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.

Ooop!  Maybe I'd better let Alex field the rest of the snake 
questions.  Sorry, Alex.

Through the process of elimination, we can fairly conclude that the 
filmmakers must have changed Brazilian boa constrictor to Burmese 
python for one and only one reason:  to vex and annoy fans of PS/SS.  
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Cindy (who wishes the film snake had been an Australian Death Adder, 
just because she likes saying "Death Adder")