DS Forums

 
 

Your favorite book to film adapatation?


Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 28-12-2016, 14:32
muggins14
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: The Pit of Despair
Posts: 50,183
Slightly off on a tangent, but I got into Star Wars first by hearing it on the radio, when BBC broadcast the NPR Playhouse adaptations in the 80's! Some of the original cast members took part and they awoke my imagination, much as a book can do, leading me to see the films and igniting my interest in science fiction!
muggins14 is offline   Reply With Quote
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
Old 28-12-2016, 16:51
LakieLady
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 9,177
Can it be book to TV adaptation?

If so the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice was a monumental triumph.
Ooh, if tv adaptations are allowed, Bleak House was awesome (about 10 years ago, with Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock).
LakieLady is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 28-12-2016, 16:59
Horace Wimp
Inactive Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 159
:

To be fair to the OP, if it's replies to a thread you want, an ongoing conversation, more immediacy, then the movies board isn't the place as people post very sporadically there unfortunately (myself included).
That's true, I've seen more life in a morgue in there sometimes, like an afternoon showing of the best of German Comedy movies, tumbleweed everywhere.
Horace Wimp is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 28-12-2016, 22:45
Keyser_Soze1
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: The Sixth Circle of Hell
Posts: 20,185
In what way? Personally I think Blade Runner is a good PKD themed film that stands on its own, but arguably a (deliberately) poor adaptation of the original novel.
Is it?

The Final Cut Version is superb

Roy Batty's Tears in Rain' soliloquy from the end of the film is better than anything in the book.

In my opinion of course.
Keyser_Soze1 is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 28-12-2016, 23:02
RebelScum
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Aberdeen
Posts: 12,197
Is it?

The Final Cut Version is superb

Roy Batty's Tears in Rain' soliloquy from the end of the film is better than anything in the book.

In my opinion of course.
I'm not saying the film is poor, it's excellent. But if the film were a traditional / direct adaptation of the novel it would be completely different. What the film does is take the spirit of the novel and creates its own narrative. So whilst a great film, not a great adaptation as such, more of an inspiration really.

It's coming up to my annual re-watch. For some reason I love watching Blade Runner sometime around New Year's.

We'll see how this gets on next year...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GDscTTE-P-k
RebelScum is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 28-12-2016, 23:41
Keyser_Soze1
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: The Sixth Circle of Hell
Posts: 20,185
I'm not saying the film is poor, it's excellent. But if the film were a traditional / direct adaptation of the novel it would be completely different. What the film does is take the spirit of the novel and creates its own narrative. So whilst a great film, not a great adaptation as such, more of an inspiration really.

It's coming up to my annual re-watch. For some reason I love watching Blade Runner sometime around New Year's.

We'll see how this gets on next year...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GDscTTE-P-k
Fair enough I understand where you are coming from now.

I have not seen the trailer yet but will look at it later - I fear it will be a total and utter disaster.

Hollywood should leave the classics alone.

In any case Rutger Hauer (who never got the parts he deserved) totally blew Ford off the screen - he was the star of the film and he was responsible for one of the greatest moments in cinematic history as well.
Keyser_Soze1 is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 29-12-2016, 00:04
nethwen
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Lothlórien
Posts: 19,737
Gone With the Wind.

A magnificent film and it's hard to believe watching it today that it was made in 1939! It never seems to age.
nethwen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29-12-2016, 00:09
yourpointbeing?
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 2,333
I would agre with most that have been mentioned. I would add Atonement to the list
yourpointbeing? is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29-12-2016, 00:12
Keyser_Soze1
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: The Sixth Circle of Hell
Posts: 20,185
Gone With the Wind.

A magnificent film and it's hard to believe watching it today that it was made in 1939! It never seems to age.
Well to be fair anyone like yourself who watched it as a teenager would still really enjoy it today.*

*Enters nuclear blast proof bunker and firmly locks the door behind him.
Keyser_Soze1 is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 29-12-2016, 00:24
nethwen
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Lothlórien
Posts: 19,737
Well to be fair anyone like yourself who watched it as a teenager would still really enjoy it today.*

*Enters nuclear blast proof bunker and firmly locks the door behind him.


A belated Happy Christmas to you, Keyser.
nethwen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29-12-2016, 01:03
Keyser_Soze1
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: The Sixth Circle of Hell
Posts: 20,185


A belated Happy Christmas to you, Keyser.
Awww - thank you Nethwen and the same to you.
Keyser_Soze1 is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 29-12-2016, 02:09
Danny_Girl
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 2,537
Really liked Atonement. Also, an old film now but my favourite book is 1984 by George Orwell, have read it countless times and I think the film with John Hurt really did the book justice.
Danny_Girl is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29-12-2016, 02:11
Keyser_Soze1
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: The Sixth Circle of Hell
Posts: 20,185
Watership Down was pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1n8E3ntWUg
Keyser_Soze1 is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 29-12-2016, 02:14
cobaye22
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 974
I would agree with most that have been mentioned. I would add Atonement to the list
Atonement also for me.
Probably unfilmable, but Joe Wright should have a go at On Chesil Beach.
cobaye22 is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 29-12-2016, 02:19
patsylimerick
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 18,703
I really liked Shutter Island (book) as well as the movie, I thought it was a good equal right there. I also thought The Great Gatsby in 2013 was a very good take on the book (including everything within the novel).

What's yours?
I really, really didn't like that film version of Gatsby. Way too unreserved. The choked collars were very much hand in hand with the decadence in the book.

Cloud Atlas was a great attempt at a very convoluted idea.
I have to see that. Loved the book.

To Kill a Mockingbird, with Gregory Peck will take some beating, IMO of course.
Absolute classics - both.

Shakespeares are interesting. I personally thought Pacino's Merchant was magnificent.
patsylimerick is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29-12-2016, 02:58
mimik1uk
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 21,755
dont think its been mentioned so far but i'd add "The Bone Collector"

book was pretty good but denzel washington did a great job as the lead role in the movie
mimik1uk is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 29-12-2016, 04:02
muggins14
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: The Pit of Despair
Posts: 50,183
That's true, I've seen more life in a morgue in there sometimes, like an afternoon showing of the best of German Comedy movies, tumbleweed everywhere.
Haha I guess that's one way of putting it

Perhaps they are all at the cinema
muggins14 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29-12-2016, 09:11
UsernameError
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 130
James Ellroy's L.A Confidential was a brilliant book. The movie was outstanding.
UsernameError is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29-12-2016, 11:47
LakieLady
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 9,177
I would add Atonement to the list
I agree. More often than not, I'm disappointed by films of books I have loved (they're rarely as good as the film in my head, iykwim), but the film of Atonement was outstanding.

The Dunkirk scene is one of the best scenes of any movie I've seen, imo.
LakieLady is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 30-12-2016, 09:11
Mia_Fine
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 101
I think it's obvious Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings
Mia_Fine is offline   Reply With Quote
 
Reply




 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 03:54.