“There’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco,” a voice tells us as we watch boxes of sneakers being unloaded from a truck. “A failure is simply the non-presence of success, but a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. It’s a mythic tale that makes other people feel better because it didn’t happen to them.”

The transfer of theatrical works to film is a trickier business than it was in a bygone era. Time was, the film industry heavily relied on the stage as a source.