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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've just started reading the book, having watched the Netflix show. It is different in a lot of ways.

Jolene molests Beth when they are 12 and 8 years old. She is also having a relationship with Ferguson, the guy who dishes out the drugs.

It is quite a different book. There is nothing about autism, unless you look at the description of Mr. Shiebal. He definitely reads as very much on the spectrum, but Beth, no.[/quote]

I read the book years ago so am going off memory.

I remember very well what you mention, but overall my impression is that the series is consistent with the spirit of the book. That said, the author definitely didn’t give a half second’s thought to Beth on the spectrum. She was a once in a generation (or more) genius who also came from trauma.[/quote]

I agree. And that was my opinion before I read the book. I suspect some folks who are hung up on the Autism theory just haven't met that many people who don't conform to their standards of "normality" without some super complicated diagnosis. [/quote]

Super complicated? It's a spectrum disorder that explains a wide range of quirks and differences. Beth was a quirky person who acted very differently than her peers. It's not a huge leap of logic to wonder if she was considered on the spectrum. But that's insulting to a few people on here apparently.[/quote]

The book was written in 1940 when Autism was barely a concept on the psychiatry agenda. The writer of the book died in 1983 when that was still the case. The "spectrum" has been extended so much in recent years - this past decade - that it incorporates many, many people who would simply have been considered eccentric or unusual in those times.

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The book is obviously different than the series. What I would be interested in hearing more about is the director or actress take on the character development. They made deliberate choices to portray Beth a certain way. [/quote]

no, the writers who adapted it would have the most to say - everything is in the words and stage directions - the director is just the puppet master and the actors the puppets. seriously, writers are so overlooked, but without them you'd have nothing.[/quote]

I believe the screen adaptor/creator was also the director: Scott Frank
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10048342/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ql_1

https://ew.com/tv/the-queens-gambit-netflix-scott-frank-interview/
“The very first script I ever wrote was [the 1991 film] Little Man Tate, and originally [b]I wanted it to be about the cost of genius[/b], and I didn't quite get there with it,” says Frank, who also penned such films as Out of Sight and Minority Report, and wrote and directed every episode of The Queen’s Gambit. “I was too young, and I didn't quite understand what I was writing about. And when I read [The Queen’s Gambit] I thought, ‘This is a much better way to tell that story.’ This notion that she's both the protagonist and antagonist in her story, I thought, was really, really interesting, and chess was actually the perfect vehicle to tell this, [with] a chess genius.”

The actress commenting on Beth:
https://ew.com/tv/the-queens-gambit-preview-anya-taylor-joy-netflix/
“To borrow a 2020 phrase, I felt very seen by Beth,” the actress says. “We're very different in a lot of ways, but at our core, we've struggled with a lot of the same things, and one of them [is] being inherently lonely. I think some people just have that thing where they're like, ‘I am separate,’ and it takes finding a place where you feel that you're not separate for you to understand that. So for me it was my art, for Beth it's chess.”

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