Favorite Book-Movie.

[Jack_Aubrey]

What was your favorite book that was made into a movie. Not the other way around :lol: .

Mine=Dr.Zhivago.

[Shea]

I liked it, but Gone With the Wind is not my favorite book. I was however very impressed with how the movie so closely followed it, even to the look of the characters. I understand of course that there were many things left out, but if they had put it all in, the movie would have probably been 12 hours long.

[Qwinto]

"Godfather" is my favorite. An excellent movie based on much more excellent book.

Furthermore I don't think that there are many good movie-realizations of classic books, for example "The Crime and the Punishment" or "War and Peace". I think it is very hard to make a good movie based on the world classic book. Some books are easy to screen ("Tom Soyer") and some are not ("Glass Bead Game", "The Magus"). Some directors think they should only follow the text and that's the secret of success. But it's not so. To make a good movie is another art at all.

I haven't seen "One flew over a cuckoo's nest" yet, but I guess it's quite good too.

[WingedSpirit]

"Paris, Texas" and "The English Patient".

[nothingman87]

The 2001 adaptation of Graham Greene's The Quiet American is the best film of a classic that I have seen. Michael Caine faithfully portrays Fowler.

[Diceman]

1984.

my message is too short, and I have to lengthen it to 10 characters, so please ignore this line :D

[Tabac]

I'm talking here about good books that made good movies.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is high on the list, followed by, in no particular order:

"Magnificent Ambersons"
"Brideshead Revisited"
"Of Human Bondage"
"Giant"
"In Cold Blood"
"Exodus"
"Oxbow Incident"
"Cry, the Beloved Country"
"Tale of Two Cities"
"Les Misérables"
"Grapes of Wrath"

In all cases, the book pleased me more than the film, but the film version was at least in keeping with the nature, tone, feeling of the book.

[mono]

Though I cannot decide if the movie is my absolute favorite of all book-movie productions, I recently saw The Scarlet Letter, and felt impressed.

[Scheherazade]

My favorite book made into a wonderful movie is "To Kill A Mockingbird"... and "Gone With the Wind" is very good too.

I think maybe we can start another thread with our favorite books made into erm.. not so very good movies...

[andrea]

High Fidelity is one of my favourite books. I love music and can feel identified with the main character quite often.
I liked the movie, but the fact that it's set in the US and not in Britain makes it lose some of its appeal.

[Avalive]

"A Colorwork Orange" of course,
I haven't read the original novel " White Oleander" But I loved the movie a whole lot.
What else? There must be many I just can't bring them back up on my weary mind now.

[Oliver Twist]

I like the Dragonheart books and movies. They're really awesome! :D

[Jester]

i loved the lord of the rings series and the harry potter movies are pretty good too

[byquist]

I agree with you Zhivago is A+
Also "Lawrence of Arabia", Part I. Part II is tough.
Jerimiah Johnson if it was a book first, which I doubt.

[subterranean]

Yes Lizzy Poo, I also like LOTR, but I love Harry Potter books much more than the film version.

[Surfer]

Godard's Fahrenheit 451 is one of the better ones. Visconti's Death in Venice. Orson Wells' Macbeth. Clockwork Orange. John Huston's The Dead.

The Worst movie made from a book is Sheltering Sky. Even with Malkevich and Winger, it's unwatchable.

[Rechka]

High Fidelity is one of my favourite books. I love music and can feel identified with the main character quite often.
I liked the movie, but the fact that it's set in the US and not in Britain makes it lose some of its appeal.

Thanks for reminding me that I have to see this movie (a guy I use to like recommended it, hehe). Unless though, you think the book is better and in that case I'll just read the book.

Well, a book I enjoyed recently was Requiem for a Dream, as soon as I finished it I ran out to rent the movie. I really liked all the shock techniques and the sound design but I do prefer the book.

[Cassiopeia]

Lord of the Rings does an excellent representation of the books, leaving out some scenes that I actually didn't like, so I wasn't upset over that, and consequently, enjoyed the movie on the same level as I did the book.

As for children's stories, I liked the Wizard of Oz a lot, but that might have been because I saw the movie before I read the book. ;)

And the Harry Potter movies, on a sidenote, made me gag. I saw the first one, and hated it. They just...aren't what I thought they should have been. :D

[dumptruckrabbit]

the bible has been made in to some great movies, king of kings being a childhood favorite, always liked salome because shes just so endearingly evil, i dont know who the actress is but shes perfect. fight club was good, brilliant directing a really great movie out of an excellent book, Orlando, based on Virginia woolf's novel, how good was that (one of those completely imposssible novels to make into a movie, but i think she pulled it off) and ill second whoever said a clockwork orange.