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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 15:05:47 GMT
because people assume the book was rubbish too, which might not be the case.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 16:32:16 GMT
I remember watching a Danish mini series based on the book Niels Klim's Underground Travels by the Norwegian–Danish author Ludvig Holberg. Written in 1741 and is a brilliant book. But the movie or mini series as it was is something of the worst shit i have ever seen. It one of the worst adaptation of a book into a movie that has ever been made. If Ludvig Holberg could see it i am sure i was turning around in his grave. When i was watching it all i could think was how is it possible to create this crap out of such a brilliant book.
The mini series is from 1984
I don`t really feel bad for them. But i agree that it may stop many people from reading the book and the book is almost always better than the movie
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 18:20:02 GMT
I'm thinking of Annihilation. It's put me off reading the book, even though people say it's better.
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Post by darknessfish on Jul 28, 2018 21:05:29 GMT
I don't know, in a lot of cases its probably the only way the author will get some serious money. And a lot of films are based on little-known works of presumably little merit. You pretty much expect the film to be worse than the film, so it irritates me more when a book's reputation is lifted by it being associated with a film of rare quality, like The Godfather, or to a lesser extent, The Shining.
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Post by amyghost on Jul 29, 2018 15:00:58 GMT
I very much doubt that many of the latter-day living writers who get fat checks to turn their opi into films much care (Dan Brown, anyone? Stephanie Meyer? The Fifty Shades of Sh*t author?). They're probably laughing all the way to the bank. And lord knows, a crappy film adaptation would never put me off of a book I had any interest in reading. You expect the average major film production to dumb down anything it touches the better to market it to the lowest common denominator audience; otherwise it would, in most cases, hemorrhage money at the box office.
That's a good point, that on occasion, a film by a genuine auteur (and in the cases of The Godfather with Coppola, and The Shining with Kubrick, I count them as exactly that--auteurs who genuinely re-imaged and even re-wrote to some degree the source material, in order to turn out films that had actual artistic heft) can ennoble a book that was nothing much more than pulp originally, and have the unintended consequence of giving a spurious quality reputation to a written work that certainly didn't deserve it otherwise (Jaws, while hardly a film of high-art pretensions, can in some respects, be included on that small list). But the instances of this are rare, and far more often it's the work that has literary merit that's transmuted into junk for the screen. Nowadays, the most frequent occurrence is the work that was never anything but junk on either the page or on film.
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Post by theravenking on Jul 29, 2018 22:04:22 GMT
I'm thinking of Annihilation. It's put me off reading the book, even though people say it's better.
I thought the book was pretty confusing. I was hoping the movie would be better.
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Post by cooly44 on Jul 30, 2018 17:26:40 GMT
Especially when they're dead and have no say in the matter.
For some reason I forced myself to watch one of the worst movies ever made, Benjamin Button. Everybody involved in it should be shunned for life.
Then I read the short story by Fitzgerald, which was enchanting.
Poor F. Scott.
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Post by DarkManX on Aug 5, 2018 19:25:58 GMT
I feel worse for the fans, it always hits them harder. It's rough when you're looking forward to an adaptation of your favorite novel only to see it butchered on screen.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 6, 2018 17:27:24 GMT
That's a foolish way to look at things but it's not surprising I guess.
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Aug 6, 2018 17:36:27 GMT
They get paid.
A lot.
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