Best Book to Film Translation
My first thought goes to 1984 with Richard Burton and John Hurt. The translation was near perfect if I recall correctly.Of course that alignment with the classic book made me want to jump off a building.
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The Dead Zone is another. The movie sparked my interest with King's book and I enjoyed both.
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Five films come to mind for me on this subject:
The Godfather Gone with the Wind The Exorcist Mystic River The Outsiders |
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Let's not forget 2001 a Space Odyssey! The last part of that book was not an easy fit for the big screen but that didn't stop them from doing their darnest best. There was a little ambiguity with the ending and I'm sure a few movie goers asking as they left the theater: "what just happened?"
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Originally Posted by Gideon58 (Post 1989133)
Five films come to mind for me on this subject:
The Godfather Gone with the Wind The Exorcist Mystic River The Outsiders |
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If you took all The Great Gatsby films and edited them together you would have the definitive Book to Movie match.
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Originally Posted by rcleary171 (Post 1989138)
If you took all The Great Gatsby films and edited them together you would have the definitive Book to Movie match.
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Ian Fleming's "From Russia with Love" with Robert Shaw as the KGB assassin. A much better translation. Again, the film pointed me to the book and I was not disappointed with either.
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This is the third time!!!? I've tried to post on this thread here- mofo keeps knocking me off. So if this works , my list will be considerably shorter
1- To Kill a Mockingbird Each is one the best books and movies of all time. 2- The Grapes of Wrath Powerful Steinbeck book well translated into a movie classic 3- Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death in the Nile Both well paced with strong characters. 4- The Andromeda Strain Chrichton's sci fi thriller became a taut suspenseful film 5- Superman - ok it's a comic book, but the Reeve/Kidder movies were the best representation imho of the old DC comics, and of any comics. Sorry, fans of Batman , Spidey, Ironman etc. And at the bottom of the list: Bridges of Madison County A bad book made into an equally bad movie. Book was lazily written and jejune, the sappy movie was the only time I didn't enjoy Clint Eastwood in a film. Big yawn for both. |
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There’s several great ones but LOTR stands out for me.
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Originally Posted by lenslady (Post 1989201)
This is the third time!!!? I've tried to post on this thread here- mofo keeps knocking me off. So if this works , my list will be considerably shorter
1- To Kill a Mockingbird Each is one the best books and movies of all time. 2- The Grapes of Wrath Powerful Steinbeck book well translated into a movie classic 3- Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death in the Nile Both well paced with strong characters. 4- The Andromeda Strain Chrichton's sci fi thriller became a taut suspenseful film 5- Superman - ok it's a comic book, but the Reeve/Kidder movies were the best representation imho of the old DC comics, and of any comics. Sorry, fans of Batman , Spidey, Ironman etc. And at the bottom of the list: Bridges of Madison County A bad book made into an equally bad movie. Book was lazily written and jejune, the sappy movie was the only time I didn't enjoy Clint Eastwood in a film. Big yawn for both. |
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Fight Club
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Two Cronenberg movies come to my mind : Cosmopolis and Naked Lunch
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Originally Posted by Sunomis (Post 1989584)
Two Cronenberg movies come to my mind : Cosmopolis and Naked Lunch
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Sort of. From what I remember it's a (re)collection of drug-induced nightmares produced by the author while high. The movie is only loosely based on the book, but I don't think it would really be possible to adapt it faithfully.
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Aside from the title, Charly (1968) was a pretty faithful to the book Flowers for Algernon.
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Originally Posted by rcleary171 (Post 1989131)
My first thought goes to 1984 with Richard Burton and John Hurt. The translation was near perfect if I recall correctly.Of course that alignment with the classic book made me want to jump off a building.
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I think I've said this before somewhere but I think Moby Dick (1956) improves on the book. The book gets too science-heavy in the middle and the narrative gets lost and then picked up again at the end. Also, the film adds some supernatural touches that really benefit the story.
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Dune (1984) is an excellent book to film translation too. Some of the best production design I can think of – for starters. I think maybe the only thing going against it is Lynch's tendency to overindulge in his own ideas, with aspects that I'm pretty sure were never in Herbert's novels.
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Originally Posted by lenslady (Post 1989201)
5- Superman - ok it's a comic book, but the Reeve/Kidder movies were the best representation imho of the old DC comics, and of any comics. Sorry, fans of Batman , Spidey, Ironman etc.
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