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Post by theravenking on Aug 16, 2020 20:12:37 GMT
Angel Heart – The novel is set in New York entirely, and Louis Cyphre has a larger role. There is also a scene where a newborn baby is sacrificed and ripped apart by the voodoo worshippers which was thankfully omitted from the movie.
L. A. Confidential the movie takes some serious liberties with the source material. In the book Vincennes (Kevin Spacey’s character) is a sex-and drug-addict and his death is very different than in the movie, there is also a serial killer subplot, and it’s much more graphic than the book.
Hitchcock’s Marnie is a lighter, more romantic and optimistic version of the book. In the book Marnie ends up in jail at the end.
Polanski’s The Ninth Gate omits about half of the book. All the stuff about the club Dumas and The Three Musketeers is missing from the movie.
Soderbergh’s Solaris leaves out most of the philosophical speculations about the nature of the planet Solaris, focusing on the love story.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 0:47:13 GMT
“The Neverending Story”
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 17, 2020 2:33:02 GMT
Elmer Gantry (I'm reading it now). The book is unrelentingly satirical. It's dedicated to HL Mencken! The film is a serious look at religious fraud. The film cuts out hundreds of pages on Elmer's early days as a hell-raiser in school and a huckster in the pulpit. More importantly, Sister Sarah Falconer is far more pure than in the book.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Aug 17, 2020 4:57:19 GMT
From Russia With Love
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 5:02:22 GMT
Kubricks Shining changes quite a bit from the book (the ending is completely different). Stephen King hated it and made his own more faithful version (TV miniseries that became forgotten) I love the book, I love Kubrick's version of the movie, hated the miniseries. Go figure, but The Shining was the first thing I thought of.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 5:03:28 GMT
Angel Heart – The novel is set in New York entirely, and Louis Cyphre has a larger role. There is also a scene where a newborn baby is sacrificed and ripped apart by the voodoo worshippers which was thankfully omitted from the movie. L. A. Confidential the movie takes some serious liberties with the source material. In the book Vincennes (Kevin Spacey’s character) is a sex-and drug-addict and his death is very different than in the movie, there is also a serial killer subplot, and it’s much more graphic than the book. Hitchcock’s Marnie is a lighter, more romantic and optimistic version of the book. In the book Marnie ends up in jail at the end. Polanski’s The Ninth Gate omits about half of the book. All the stuff about the club Dumas and The Three Musketeers is missing from the movie. Soderbergh’s Solaris leaves out most of the philosophical speculations about the nature of the planet Solaris, focusing on the love story. Would you recommend The Ninth Gate book? I love the film.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 17, 2020 5:16:10 GMT
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. The book ends with Alex getting a redemption; the movie ends with him back to where he started. However, I felt this change made the story better, even though I'm not a pessimist in the slightest. Why do you think it's unfaithful? It's almost a shot-for-shot recreation of the panels. It's funny, because not only is the movie a slavish recreation (especially the extended cuts), but I think it's actually a poor adaptation because the tone and style of Snyder completely conflicts with that of the book's. So I double-disagree with her. Unless the tone is what she was referring to. And since I'm already replying to you, ACO's ending is based on the book's American ending which left out the final chapter you're talking about. So it was faithful in a way.
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Post by millar70 on Aug 17, 2020 5:49:20 GMT
The longer this thread goes, the more convinced I am that no one here but me has ever read The Natural.
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Post by novastar6 on Aug 17, 2020 6:00:07 GMT
Fried Green Tomatoes, good book, good movie, but both very different. Crazy in Alabama, movie was better than the book.
Soylent Green
Logan's Run
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Post by claudius on Aug 17, 2020 9:12:58 GMT
"The longer this thread goes, the more convinced I am that no one here but me has ever read The Natural."
I do know its a depressing read. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY once did a article of several films that went independent of their novel sources. For the improvements (WEE WILLIE WINKIE, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT) and the misfires (1939's THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN and THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES), the article commented that the film adaptation of THE NATURAL is only a desecration if one feels reading the book is your idea of a good time.
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Post by theravenking on Aug 17, 2020 11:39:02 GMT
Angel Heart – The novel is set in New York entirely, and Louis Cyphre has a larger role. There is also a scene where a newborn baby is sacrificed and ripped apart by the voodoo worshippers which was thankfully omitted from the movie. L. A. Confidential the movie takes some serious liberties with the source material. In the book Vincennes (Kevin Spacey’s character) is a sex-and drug-addict and his death is very different than in the movie, there is also a serial killer subplot, and it’s much more graphic than the book. Hitchcock’s Marnie is a lighter, more romantic and optimistic version of the book. In the book Marnie ends up in jail at the end. Polanski’s The Ninth Gate omits about half of the book. All the stuff about the club Dumas and The Three Musketeers is missing from the movie. Soderbergh’s Solaris leaves out most of the philosophical speculations about the nature of the planet Solaris, focusing on the love story. Would you recommend The Ninth Gate book? I love the film. The title of the book is The Club Dumas and it tells two different stories (although you only find out at the end, that these two plot strands were entirely independent from each other). The first story missing from the movie is about the original manuscript of a chapter of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel The Three Musketeers. Book detective Lucas Corso is asked by a client to authenticate that the manuscript is genuine. On his search for answers he runs into people resembling characters from the Dumas novel such as Mylady De Winter or the villainous Rochefort. The author Arturo Pérez-Reverte is obviously a huge fan of Dumas and includes a lot of fascinating trivia about his life and works. However if you are not familiar with the plot of The Three Musketeers or just generally uninterested in Dumas, you may find these parts dull.
The second plot strand is the one used in the movie about the search for the occult book The Ninth Gate, but there are several differences here too. Polanski has changed the ending for the movie quite radically.
Perhaps you should just give it a try and decide for yourself whether the writing style or the way the story is told appeals to you.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 13:12:50 GMT
Would you recommend The Ninth Gate book? I love the film. The title of the book is The Club Dumas and it tells two different stories (although you only find out at the end, that these two plot strands were entirely independent from each other). The first story missing from the movie is about the original manuscript of a chapter of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel The Three Musketeers. Book detective Lucas Corso is asked by a client to authenticate that the manuscript is genuine. On his search for answers he runs into people resembling characters from the Dumas novel such as Mylady De Winter or the villainous Rochefort. The author Arturo Pérez-Reverte is obviously a huge fan of Dumas and includes a lot of fascinating trivia about his life and works. However if you are not familiar with the plot of The Three Musketeers or just generally uninterested in Dumas, you may find these parts dull.
The second plot strand is the one used in the movie about the search for the occult book The Ninth Gate, but there are several differences here too. Polanski has changed the ending for the movie quite radically.
Perhaps you should just give it a try and decide for yourself whether the writing style or the way the story is told appeals to you. I appreciate your detailed response. I'm familiar with The Three Musketeers story, but superficially. It sounds like I should read that first before this book.
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Post by faustus5 on Aug 17, 2020 13:23:03 GMT
There are actually two versions of the book with different endings. Kubrick's film was faithful to the one he was aware of when he made the film.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Aug 17, 2020 13:25:13 GMT
Jurassic Park
Minority Report
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Post by alpha128 on Aug 17, 2020 16:21:56 GMT
I think the film Soylent Green is much better then the novel it was based on, Make Room, Make Room. When I first saw the film Logan's Run I liked it so much I read the novel. Then, after reading the novel, I hated the film adaptation. The Logan's Run book is so much better than the movie. The second book, Logan's World is excellent too.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Aug 17, 2020 17:24:39 GMT
The First Wives Club novel is darker than the film adaptation.
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Post by gljbradley on Aug 17, 2020 17:43:35 GMT
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. The book ends with Alex getting a redemption; the movie ends with him back to where he started. However, I felt this change made the story better, even though I'm not a pessimist in the slightest. Why do you think it's unfaithful? It's almost a shot-for-shot recreation of the panels. There were a few changes that the film that were significant and better. Like the changes of the ending in A Clockwork Orange, the ending of Watchmen shows a bomb, instead of a squid, destroying much of New York and Dr. Manhatten being blamed. And the added emotional impact in the film made a HUGE DIFFERENCE because in the book, it was like none of the main characters, except Rorschach, cared. They made Dan Dreiberg a more human character and had the right reaction after seeing millions of people die and then see his friend die in front of him. He rightfully beat the crap out of Ozymandias and called him out on his BS.
Sorry about the two extra spoiler boxes. I was writing this on my iPad and I couldn't properly hide the spoilers for Watchmen in the box properly.
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 17, 2020 18:44:48 GMT
Full Metal Jacket is a fine film that deviates from a so-so book, The Short Timers.
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Post by angel on Aug 18, 2020 0:24:44 GMT
Blade Runner.
World War Z. (I never read the book and I remember a big furore at the time about how unfaithful the adaptation was but I remember quite enjoying the film).
Howl's Moving Castle.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
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Post by novastar6 on Aug 18, 2020 4:03:08 GMT
I think the film Soylent Green is much better then the novel it was based on, Make Room, Make Room. When I first saw the film Logan's Run I liked it so much I read the novel. Then, after reading the novel, I hated the film adaptation. The Logan's Run book is so much better than the movie. The second book, Logan's World is excellent too.
I agree about Soylent Green, but I was completely lost in the book Logan's Run.
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