I think what makes adapting short stories into films is that short stories provide a backbone or a skeleton for an entire film's structure. What I mean is, a short story gives a film maker all the basic components to build upon deeper. The story provides hcharacters and their relationships to one another (something that can be expanded upon with dialogue and expressions and mannerisms, giving the characters more depth and personality), it can expand on the conflicts between the characters and their environments. Plus the visuals of a short story could get lost in the imagination, so experiencing someone else's vision can help ease the experience.
That's why "Bring Up Baby" easily translates to a script because the characters seem interesting and diverse enough to carry 100+ pages of dialogue and general interaction. Each character brings something different to the film's table, and the main conflict of a panther being loose keeps you laughing throughout.
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