A lot of canonical short fiction is either not adapted to film, or turned into audio books (novels are preferred for film adaptations).
However, there are exceptions. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown was adapted as a movie. The trailer here: https://youtu.be/VuY0qRI-7mM?si=hnc_ZHl0g3vLmbsj
(There’s apparently another professional film version of it, too.)
I can’t judge the entire film but it’s obvious even from the trailer that the both dialogue and tone of the story are changed.
This young filmmaker version of the story *does* make an attempt to stay true to the short story’s tone but abbreviates it radically and has uneven dialogue that’s sometimes true to the text and sometimes has an updated, goofily contemporary, quality that’s impossible to take seriously: https://youtu.be/N3vQu25X2RI?si=yuFW8E5upO1pK0pZ
So film adaptations are hard to pull off without losing much of the original beauty of the story, which lies in its language.
Yet the audio books lack the visual interestingness that a short story like this would inspire a lot of filmmakers.
And so we come full circle: how can one adapt a short story to film and new media, while still retaining the beauty of the original?
https://youtu.be/Nq6AY2AaEe4?si=wFqLGdjEdh5xhKsW
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