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Discussion Board #3: After reading Robert Stam’s “Beyond Fidelity, the Dialogics of Adaptation” and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, discuss the ways in which the film Cast Away is an adaptation of the novel Robinson Crusoe. What are some connections between the novel and the film that you noticed, particularly in terms of the main characters, Robinson Crusoe and Chuck Noland, as well as in relation to the castaway archetype established by Defoe’s novel?
