I dislike the long-winded subplots in the book about Johnny Fontane and Lucy Mancini and can see why their stories were so reduced in the film adaption. Apart from that though, it's a good read.
I dislike the long-winded subplots in the book about Johnny Fontane and Lucy Mancini and can see why their stories were so reduced in the film adaption. Apart from that though, it's a good read.
I agree. And apart from the subplots you mention, they did a hell of a job getting nearly all of the book on the screen, IIRC (it's many, many years since I read it).
Technically not a film but Jesus of Nazareth starring Robert Powell was fantastic adaptation of parts of a book called The Bible. Apparently the book has quite a cult following.
Technically not a film but Jesus of Nazareth starring Robert Powell was fantastic adaptation of parts of a book called The Bible. Apparently the book has quite a cult following.
I didn't think they did a terrible job with 'The Golden Compass'. There were slight things wrong with it, but it wasn't a bad effort. They'd never have manged the other two books though. The third would be unfilmable, I'm sure.
The Bourne Books were excellent and The Bourne Movies are great, but don't make the mistake of thinking one bears any relation to the other, other than basic premise of spy having amnesia!
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One of the bronte Sisters.
I dislike the long-winded subplots in the book about Johnny Fontane and Lucy Mancini and can see why their stories were so reduced in the film adaption. Apart from that though, it's a good read.
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Sweet Hereafter
I'm looking forward to Asimov's Foundation, if and when it ever happens.
Mystic River and Shutter Island were quite good.
I agree. And apart from the subplots you mention, they did a hell of a job getting nearly all of the book on the screen, IIRC (it's many, many years since I read it).
oh , and Fight Club.
He dies in the end
SorryIhave to disagree.
The Bourne Books were excellent and The Bourne Movies are great, but don't make the mistake of thinking one bears any relation to the other, other than basic premise of spy having amnesia!
Gone With The Wind
Empire of the Sun
Sense and Sensibility (1997 Emma Thompson version)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Schindler's List
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Remains of the Day
The Name of the Rose
Watership Down
Ordinary People
...to name a few. i'm sure there will be more that I can't think of for the moment.
Gone With The wind.
A Room With A View
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, (recent Disney version)
Last Of The Mohicans (great film, interminably boring book that was an exercise in perserverence to finish, so that's a bit of a cheat)
Vanity Fair (Reese Witherspoon I think pulled the part off against expectations)
No he doesn't...