Blade gay

I often enjoy reading novel adaptations of films to compare what was either left in from the original script before filming, or to see what the author added to give the two-hour film depth and backstory. Unfortunately, the only thing that never really makes it from the film Zorro, the Gay Blade and its novelization is the humor. This isn't really a knock against the author, Les Dean (although I perform question the addition of the novel's reincarnation-themed prologue, and can only exonerate it if it was in reality part of the original screenplay), but rather the severe reality of an impossible task. Zorro, the Gay Blade is a production that gains the majority of its laughs from the over-the-top performances of it's man actors, George Hamilton and Ron Leibman (and to a lesser extent - for reasons explained in a moment, Lauren Hutton and Brenda Vaccaro). This could be said of most films, but in this case, much of the humor is derived from over-exaggerated mispronunciations of George Hamilton's Don Diego Vega character in his thick Spanish accent. It's silly, juvenile humor, but it's humor that works for the movie. Unfortunately, the equal humor falls planar in print,