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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 22, 2021 23:09:56 GMT
That is okay, I just wanted to make myself clear. I wasn't sure if you knew exactly what I was asking for, but that could be my fault for not being more specific. No you were specific. My mind just wanders beyond the parameters since I am interested in the influences of a particular work and wondering how far it stretches.
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 22, 2021 23:12:38 GMT
That is okay, I just wanted to make myself clear. I wasn't sure if you knew exactly what I was asking for, but that could be my fault for not being more specific. No you were specific. My mind just wanders beyond the parameters since I am interested in the influences of a particular work and wondering how far it stretches.
That is interesting stuff too. I was actually thinking about that while watching the 1953 War of the Worlds the other day and Independence Day came to mind immediately. Obviously inspired by the 1953 movie adaptation.
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Post by phantomparticle on Jun 22, 2021 23:22:08 GMT
Wikipedia lists 123 film adaptations of the novel from the silent era to modern. Most of them are either comedies (Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) or a spin off (Daughter of Dr. Jekyll).
I went down the list and tried to determine all the direct feature film adaptations in America and foreign markets and came up with a ballpark figure of 28. Some will be familiar to Classic Fans (Der Januskopf, 1920) and others will be so obscure they will probably never be seen outside of their own countries (Chehre Pe Chehre, translated as A Face Over A Face, India 1981) Even if the list were cut down by half, it must surely rank with Dracula and Sherlock Holmes among the most adapted Classic Literary works.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jun 23, 2021 4:41:42 GMT
Detective Comics #27
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 23, 2021 4:46:33 GMT
Even if I agreed (which I don't), is a comic book a novel? The story of Detective Comics #27 is nothing like any of the Batman movies.
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Post by millar70 on Jun 23, 2021 4:49:13 GMT
Probably the Bible if you’re counting that. I thought of that too.
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Post by sostie on Jun 23, 2021 11:00:14 GMT
1 Dracula by Bram Stoker (62+) 2 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (50+) 3 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (49+) 4 Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (44+) 5 Frankenstein by Mary Shelly (37+) Dracula I only count 22 on IMDB. Are you just counting every movie with Dracula in it as an adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula? Dracula is a big grey area. There are many films about Dracula that take aspects of Stoker's novel, but few direct adaptations. Even the most famous version, starring Lugosi, is actually directly based on a play based on the novel!
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Post by sostie on Jun 23, 2021 11:02:28 GMT
I was going to say Romeo & Juliet...almost all adaptations of the story follow the same plot and scenarios..then remembered it's a play not a novel.
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Post by vegalyra on Jun 23, 2021 11:08:04 GMT
The Three Musketeers probably ranks up there.
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Post by claudius on Jun 23, 2021 12:11:36 GMT
On the top of my head without looking it up, non-play source and post silent: Dracula 8 Great Expectations 10 A Christmas Carol 16 Hound of Baskervilles 10 Oliver Twist 11 Frankenstein 7 Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde 11 Little Women 12 The Count of Monte Cristo 8 The Three Musketeers 11 The Hunchback of Norte Dame 7 David Copperfeild 9 A Tale of Two Cities 6 Ivanhoe 7 Les Miserables 9 Anna Karenina 9 Alices Adventures in Wonderland 12 War and Peace 5 Jane Eyre 8
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Post by politicidal on Jun 23, 2021 12:46:12 GMT
Perhaps Dracula or Tarzan?
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Post by drystyx on Jun 23, 2021 17:10:24 GMT
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