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PCD Since: May, 2021
14th Apr, 2024 08:32:04 AM

I don't have a trope suggestion, but the only media I can think of that did something close to that was The Shakespeare Plays on PBS decades ago. They presented every play by William Shakspeare as close to the original edition as possible. I think these were hosted (or directed?) by Jonathan Miller.

FerrousFaucet Since: Feb, 2014
14th Apr, 2024 01:22:32 PM

What are you asking for that is different from Shot-for-Shot Remake? Any adaptation will have some sort of deviation, otherwise it wouldn't be an adaptation and it would just be a copy. Even in the page image at Shot-for-shot Remake, the actors have their hair styled differently. If a book is adapted into a movie, it is a deviation because it's not a book anymore. If a play is adapted into a movie, it's a deviation even if the script is word-for-word the same, because it's performed in a studio in front of cameras instead of on a stage. If a movie from one region such as Insomnia is remade in another region, it's an adaptation because it's not in the original language and has a different cast of actors.

I'm not trying to be pedantic, I just don't think it's clear what you're asking for.

Medinoc (Before Recorded History)
17th Apr, 2024 10:17:17 AM

There are some Negima! Magister Negi Magi OAV that are pretty much shot-for-shot remakes of the manga's breather arc.

Edited by Medinoc "And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
17th Apr, 2024 10:51:15 AM

^^ Er, yeah I kind of had the same thought. An adaptation will, by design, have enough minute differences to always be a slightly different product. And that's sort of the point of an adaptation; things have to change for the sake of the medium, target audience, budget, and more.

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