The film, based on... / The film based on...
The romantic comedy film "Crazy Rich Asians" dominated the U.S. box office over the weekend with more than 25 million dollars worth of tickets sold.
It is the first Hollywood film in almost a quarter century with an all-Asian cast and has accumulated 34 million dollars since its opening last Wednesday.
"Crazy Rich Asians" stars Constance Wu, who plays a Chinese American woman who learns her boyfriend, played by Henry Golding, hails from one of Singapore's wealthiest families.
The film, based on the bestselling novel by Kevin Kwan, will be released globally in the coming weeks.
The film, based on the bestselling novel by Kevin Kwan, will be released globally in the coming weeks.
If I rewrite the sentence with commas to a sentence without commas like The film based on the bestselling novel by Kevin Kwan will be released globally in the coming weeks, is this sentence wrong or unnatural to native English speakers?
What do you native English speakers think?
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It doesn't look natural to me without the commas. The film has already been mentioned a few times in the preceding text, so the reader already knows exactly which film the writer is talking about. ' as if the reader did not already know which film it was.
- It doesn't look natural to me without the commas.
- The film has already been mentioned a few times in the preceding text, so the reader already knows exactly which film the writer is talking about.
- ' as if the reader did not already know which film it was.
- The 'based on' phrase just adds additional information about the film whose identity we already know.
- CJ
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It doesn't look natural to me without the commas.
The film has already been mentioned a few times in the preceding text, so the reader already knows exactly which film the writer is talking about. Therefore, the film does not need to be singled out as 'the film based on ...' as if the reader did not already know which film it was. The 'based on' phrase just adds additional information
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