Oooh, forgot about that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by bazarov
Defenitely good, except not based on the book, both were written in tandom, so....I don't know how you'd classify that.Quote:
Originally Posted by hyperborean
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Oooh, forgot about that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by bazarov
Defenitely good, except not based on the book, both were written in tandom, so....I don't know how you'd classify that.Quote:
Originally Posted by hyperborean
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Same with The Godfather I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by TEND
My absolute favorite is Hamlet (Mel Gibson, Glenn Close). I also like Romeo and Juliet (1960's version), The Count of Monte Cristo (new version), and, of course, the Harry Potter series. Who doesn't?
I also like the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
The Godfather, by
Mario Puzo, was made
into a great film!
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Uncle Lar
All things Kubrick.
Adaptation, screenplay by Charlie Kaufman
Eyes Wide Shut
Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004 Andrew Lloyd Webber version). Okay, it was first a book, then a musical, and then the musical was filmed, but I think that still counts as a movie based on book, right? :D
I also like Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen. I think it's even better than the BBC series with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.
The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was also quite good movie adaptation.
Movie version of Matilda is also good, though the plot is a bit different than in the book.
Perfume - The Story of a Murderer is really good movie, especially when the book was thought "unfilmable" before the movie came out :D
Pride and Prejudice was good. Now I am waiting to watch 'The Namesake'(Based on Jhumpa Lahiri's novel of the same title)
Definitely "Wonder Boys" originally by Chabon. (the book that is) The film is excellent.
dangerous liasons
vanity fair
the canterville ghost
gone with the wind
a passage to india
dr zivago
there are sooo many
fear and the loathing in las vegas, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Requiem for A Dream...all my favourites.
One of my all time favorite movies is the Count of Monte Christo. Wonderful movie and a wonderful book!
I really like the movie Pride and Prejudice with Kiera Knightly.
Last of the Mohicans (1992), although it was hardly faithful to the book.
Where does one start with a question like this? I enjoy so many adaptations, but I think that I will only list the all-around best. That would include the most faithful (as much as they could possibly be) and best performances.
* The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
* Maurice
* Persuasion
* Stand By Me (originally "The Body")
* The Shawshank Redemption
Films that I liked MUCH MORE than the books:
* Field of Dreams (originally "Shoeless Joe")
* The Color Purple
* Forrest Gump
As an "honorary" mention I will say "Gone With The Wind". Sure alot of details were cut out, but we have to remember only so much would be allowed in that film in 1939. Still, though, Clark Gable is the perfect Rhett Butler!
Oh......so many, favorites though, I would say......
Once Upon a Time in America (Don't remember the name of the book it's based on)
Ran (Based on King Lear)
Jules Et Jim
.....tooooons more. I could go on and on, so I'll just stop here.
fight club. hands down.
Children of Men, despite me never reading the book, and it apparently not being totally true to it. I loved that movie much more than any women.(Okay, well, maybe not...) Amazing piece of underrated cinema right there.
Other movies, A Clockwork Orange, Guildernstern and Rosencrantz are Dead, The Princess Bride, Fight Club, and The Fox and the Hound.
Gone With the Wind! It is the only movie that I liked BETTER than the book upon which it was based.
V for Vendetta!
Stardust. It's one of the very few movies made from a book I've read that I didn't hate.
Harry Potter (of course)
Count of Monte Cristo - despite a complete change of plot ;)
Pride and Prejudice - the BBC production with Colin Firth (although that is a series not a movie...)
The Three Musketeers (with Kiefer Sutherland) was also pretty good
The Devil wears Prada
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I would have to say i didn't like harry potter movies at all, it was very poorly makedQuote:
Originally Posted by Jazz_
I liked Pride and Prejudice, and the Count of Monte Cristo, loved Fight Club
My fav would have to be Perfume, I fell in love with it, even though the book is much much better
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Since you mentioned Shakespeare, I'll nominate Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet. It is of a different style than Branagh's and certainly not something we're seeing now, but the man had the guts of a burglar.
The Godfather, although they leave out so much but coppola did a briliant job with the story he presented on film.
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon.
The film starred Michael Douglas and a wonderfully chosen cast, as well as some great music.
Loved The Last of the Mohicans much more than the book, even though I know they changed huge parts.
bigben,Sorry to disagree with you but I liked Kenneth Branagh's version eons better. It has more scope to the character in my opinion and it's the full-length play. Why why did Olivier chose to condense his production? I don't even think Fortinbras was ever mentioned. I didn't see this film until a few years ago; I had high expectations and found myself somewhat disappointed. I was never disappointed in the full-length versions; two I would highly recommend are these:Quote:
Originally Posted by bigben
BBC production of Hamlet starring a (young) Derek Jacobi as Hamlet.
Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet starring Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winstlett and many other noteworthy actors/actresses.
I feel, that to understand Hamlet, the man, and the kingdom and the political tensions creating an important backdrop and atmosphere, one needs the full text, with all the characters included. This is why I recommend these two.
To Kill a Mockingbird....
When it comes to Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare's, my favourite is Henry V Starring keneth Branagh and Emma Thompson
But my all-time favourite book-movie combo is the 1994 version of Little Women
Also Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.Quote:
Originally Posted by rimbaud
Which films based on novels are the most remarkable in your opinion?
The Grapes of Wrath (even better than the novel; for me, it's one of Ford's 2 or 3 greatest films)
The Godfather (obvious)
Lord of the Rings (Jackson's mind-blowing magnum opus; nothing like it will likely ever be attempted)
Schindler's List (Spielberg's directorial touch was never more potent)
The Princess Bride (one of the all-time greatest film comedies that's endlessly quotable)
GoodFellas (one of Scorcese's best)
No Country for Old Men (definitely one of the greatest films of the 21st century thus far)
Great Expectations and Oliver Twist (The best adaptations of two of Dickens' best by one of the great and most underrated directors; David Lean)
Sense & Sensibility (A phenomenal adaptation by the very talented writer/actress Emma Thompson and very well directed by Ang Lee)
There's so many great ones I'm forgetting, but that will work for now.
those made by the Brits for Masterpiece theatre. Our library has many of them from the 1970s onward. I have seen most of them and the best are I,Claudius by Robert Graves; Our Mutual Friend, Bleak House, Nichloas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, The Last of the Mohicans by Fenimore Cooper, Silas Marner, Middlemarch by George Elliott; and the list goes on and on. I would highly recommend you see as many as you can of these remarkable adaptations. And, contrary to Hollywood, they follow the book quite faithfully.
As far as movies made to be seen in a theatre some of the best are: Goodbye, Mr Chips starring Robert Donat, The Count of Monte Cristo starring Robert Donat, Oliver Twist directed by David Lean, Great Expectations directed by David Lean, Doctor Zhivago, GWTW, Rebecca directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Lost Horizon starring Ronald Coleman, A Tale of Two Cities starring Ronald Coleman, Scaramouche and the Prisoner of Zenda starring Stewart Granger, Quo Vadis? and Ivanhoe starring Robert Taylor, Camille staring robert Taylor and Greta Garbo, Bel Ami and The Moon and Sixpence starring George Sanders, The Razor's Edge starring Tyrone Power, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls starring Gary Cooper, Of Human Bondage starring Leslie Howard, The Magnificent Amberson directed by Orson Welles, The Virginian starring Joel McCrea, The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep starring Humphrey Bogart, The sun Also Rises starring Tyrone Power, and this list goes on and on. The best movie adaptations were made in the 30s and 40s so I have given the star so you wont watch some modern trash.
Lots of good mentions, dfloyd!
Being "faithful" to the book in an adaptation from one medium to another is slightly a misnomer. Words don't always translate directly to images and the way a film is cut together and narrated is very different from the way novels are. The Grapes of Wrath and The Godfather are such great films because they work on cinematic rather than literary levels.Quote:
Originally Posted by dfloyd