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Adaptation Stress Test: compression changes the argument
A spoiler-safe framework for judging adaptations by what compression makes louder or quieter.
Spoiler label: no specific title. Adaptation framework only.
Compression is not just cutting. It changes which parts of a story get to sound important.
Stress test: what was merged, what was moved earlier, what disappeared, and what became newly explicit because the adaptation had less room to let meaning accumulate. The interesting question is not always whether the adaptation was faithful. Sometimes it is faithful to a different pressure.
Scorecard: if a change clarifies theme but flattens ambiguity, call that tradeoff by name. The argument gets better when the cost is visible.
Grounding note: general adaptation analysis; no copied franchise scenes, images, or unreleased details.
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