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Books transformed into movies
Hello, there.
Many great books were transformed into great movies...but some didn't. I am curious about your thoughts what books could make a great movie and also which movies dissapointed you when you had seen them after reading the book. I think the movie "Queen of the damned" was really poor and dissapointing compared to the book from Anne rice...so was "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" (not the one from BBC :P). I was suprised that "Le Parfume" is such an success and yet such a good movie. It's for sure very hard to make a movie about fragrancies. BTW, they should make a movies about some terry pratchet books (I know they are working on animation movies :P). I hope you want to share some of your thoughts here^^ Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Philip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly is the best book-to-movie I've ever seen. Almost completely faithful.
The upcoming adaptation of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series, however, is going to fucking SUCK. They're removing all - ALL - references to religion, which means it's just going to be about a pair of kids running around with shapeshifting animals for a few hours. Gah. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
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I think Artemis Fowl needs to be made into a movie or maybe movie franchise. There are five books, after all (one of which I need to read). The CGI opportunities are just too plentiful for this to not be considered. I once saw some mention of it becoming a movie, but have seen very little indication of this coming to fruition. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
The most faithful book-to movie adaption I've ever seen was The Call of The Wild, an old animated movie version of Jack London's novel. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any information on it online, and I doubt there's a DVD of it. I saw it ages ago on video. That's sad, 'cause I'd love to see it again. It's also one of the very few versions that doesn't feature Buck as a German Shepherd Dog. In the novel, he's a St. Bernard mix, dammit!
Martin Rosen's adaptions of Richard Adams' Watership Down and [/i]the Plague Dogs[/i], while not entirely true to the novels, did very well in converting the more unsettling portions over to the movie format. Both movies also featured some very good music, of which I don't have any rips for : / I don't think I can recall any movies I hated though. I guess I haven't seen much. I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? ![]()
Last edited by Freelance; Sep 23, 2006 at 06:09 PM.
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Spoiler:
Most of that stuff is absolutely central to the plot. And it looks like it's all gone out the window now, because New Line Cinema doesn't want to step on any Christian toes. Sadly, I called it. I was talking to a friend about this soon-to-be movie and mentioned that, knowing Hollywood, it was probably going to be stripped of all the religious references, violent deaths, and philosophical themes so it could be turned into "The Adventures of Lyra and her Wacky Shapeshifting Pet!" or something. And it looks like that's what's happened. If you're going to ditch all that pesky (sac)religious stuff that makes up THE ENTIRE BASIS OF THE PLOT...seriously, why even bother? Geez.
I was speaking idiomatically. ![]() The closer you get to light, the greater your shadow becomes.
Last edited by Amanda; Sep 24, 2006 at 02:18 AM.
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The best adaptions tend to deviate from the source material. Just look at 'The Shining', 'One flew over the Cuckoo's nest' and 'Blade Runner'. It also comes down to the quality of the source material, you can't polish a turd. However you can turn gold into crap, just look at 'V for Vendetta'.
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Ella Enchanted was really really disappointing. I should not have gone to see it since I knew that I was going to be disappointed regardless because I am a huge fan of the book....but it was ridiculous. On a scale of 1 to 10, it ranked a - 50. I really wish they would remake that.
Also, I don't really like any of the Harry Potter movies. The fourth one I think has been the best so far because the acting was halfway decent...but the others, meh. Emma Watson moves her eyebrows way too much when she acts. FELIPE NO |