-Gone With the Wind- is one to comes to mind
what is your favourite 'Book to Movie'?
-Gone With the Wind- is one to comes to mind
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
I rarely like the movie adaptation except maybe when it comes to a few classics but my favorite would be 'The Virgin Suicides' loved the book and loved the movie.
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I also liked the French film adaptation of Harlan Coben's Tell No One much better than the novel.
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Gone with the wind is tops for me, while Fight Club is probably my second.
A River Runs Through It gets the prize for me. It's one of the few cases where, it think the book and the film are nearly equivalent in quality. Perhaps it's because the book was fairly short (a novella) -- I tend to think that film adaptations do better when they adapt and expand upon a shorter written work than when they contract and edit down a longer one. I'm sure there are exceptions to this, however.
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Lord of the Rings is on the top of my list. I think it's better than the books.
The book and the film are two distinctly different art forms. The goal of the film-maker is to make a great film... not to remain faithful to the "original". When I read a book, I never think, "Gee! This would make a great film!" Yet I see that this is the usual thinking of many. The Harry Potter novels sell like mad... thus we must have Harry Potter films and tie their marketing in with the books.
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Lord of the Rings is on the top of my list. I think it's better than the books.
How could it not be?
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
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A Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
Lord of the Rings
The Shining
I wouldn't say that any of them are "better" than the books because, as Stlukes rightly said, they are very different mediums and better is an irrelevant term. However, I would rank all of those as among my favorite movies, while I wouldn't rank any of the books as such. So the movies were a better example of their medium than the books were, in my opinion.
Last edited by Desolation; 03-22-2012 at 11:22 PM.
I agree with A Clockwork Orange... the book is spectacular, but Kubrick is one of my favorite directors.
Also agree with Fight Club (one of my favorite movies)
Capote was really good too. as was Of Mice and Men
It seems as though most movies these days are based on books... so I am sure there are a lot that I have found to be wonderful but for which I have not even read the book (ie The Descendants, Memento (another favorite movie but haven't read the book), A River Runs Through It, The Color Purple, and more...)
(btw, and I know most of you will gasp now, but I have never seen or read Gone with the Wind) !
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The film actually put me off reading the book for a good while because I wasn't too thrilled with it. I read it last year though and it's fabulous - one of my favourite books. It's about 1000 pages long but not one of those pages bored me even in the slightest bit.
I agree with The Lord of The Rings being great films. I'm going to buy the extended versions soon and have a LOTR marathon.
An Education which is based on a memoir is one of my favourite films too.
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Same case here.
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I agree that the movies were good, they were great but not better than the books. They had so much more...
I watched them all with my son during the Christmas holiday, and we both loved it
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