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Post by stryker on Jan 25, 2023 0:33:40 GMT
The Coen Brother's NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is an outstanding, unforgettable adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's shattering novel.
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, I love both the book and it's screen adaptation in almost equal measure.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 25, 2023 0:42:45 GMT
Stand By Me and Shawshank Redemption aka The Body and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption <-- novellas
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Post by stryker on Jan 25, 2023 0:42:55 GMT
The Coen brother's magnificent adaptation of the Charles Portis novel TRUE GRIT.
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Post by Old Aussie on Jan 25, 2023 0:44:13 GMT
strykerthis thread had me wishing I'd read FROM HERE TO ETERNITY = sure I woulda loved it. Great movie.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 25, 2023 0:46:24 GMT
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 25, 2023 0:48:38 GMT
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Post by stryker on Jan 25, 2023 1:07:40 GMT
stryker this thread had me wishing I'd read FROM HERE TO ETERNITY = sure I woulda loved it. Great movie. The book is magnificent, reading it was one of the great literary experiences of my teenage years.
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Post by spiderwort on Jan 25, 2023 1:18:57 GMT
Penn Guinn , you've reminded me of another Bogdanovich film that I love, adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel that I love: And this, another of my favorite McMurtry novels, which became the film I also love:
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Post by stryker on Jan 25, 2023 1:28:21 GMT
Penn Guinn , you've reminded me of another Bogdanovich film that I love, adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel that I love: And this, another of my favorite McMurtry novels, which became the film I also love: And let's not forget that Larry McMurtry also wrote TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, and co-wrote (with Annie Prouix), the novella on which BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is based.
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Post by amyghost on Jan 25, 2023 2:11:22 GMT
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 25, 2023 2:42:21 GMT
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Post by CountVolpe on Jan 25, 2023 19:27:59 GMT
The Witches of Eastwik
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Post by spiderwort on Jan 26, 2023 0:48:19 GMT
Amy, I'm with you on The Magnificent Ambersons and The Wizard of Oz (the book my mother taught me to read before I was in 1st grade). I haven't read "The Maltese Falcon," though I love the film, nor have I read "Kings Row," a film that I really, really love. I have meant to read the novel for several decades but for some reason haven't managed to do so. Shame on me. I always thought it would make an excellent mini-series.
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Post by amyghost on Jan 26, 2023 1:36:56 GMT
Amy, I'm with you on The Magnificent Ambersons and The Wizard of Oz (the book my mother taught me to read before I was in 1st grade). I haven't read "The Maltese Falcon," though I love the film, nor have I read "Kings Row," a film that I really, really love. I have meant to read the novel for several decades but for some reason haven't managed to do so. Shame on me. I always thought it would make an excellent mini-series.
Kings Row is actually a surprisingly good novel for what was considered a rather sensationalistic potboiler in its day. Although it does have aspects of that, it's also a solid character-based story that's given more depth and psychological verisimilitude than one might have any reason to expect. Author Henry Bellamann had planned the story as a trilogy running from the late 1890's up to the present (present for the 1940's, at any rate) era, but died before he had done more than write notes for the second book ( Paris Mitchell of Kings Row). The notes were turned into a novel by Bellamann's widow, but it's not as successful, and the third book was never attempted. If you ever have a chance, give it a read. The Dr. Tower character alone is worth it, and makes you wish that, as brilliantly as Claude Rains depicted him, he'd been allowed to follow the character's delineation in the novel more closely than Code strictures would have allowed at that time. The Maltese Falcon is a great mystery/actioner, probably Hammett's best novel. The Bogart film version follows it quite closely, but of course a few of the more openly sordid bits had to be toned down or simply suggested--Caspar Gutman's unfortunate daughter apparently couldn't be salvaged at all, and so disappeared from the screen treatment altogether. The book itself is fairly short and a quick read, but even if you'd never seen the film, it stays with you.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 26, 2023 1:44:53 GMT
.....would never have happened without...
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Post by marshamae on Jan 26, 2023 3:12:23 GMT
Beloved books for which I am awaiting a film true to the book.
Great Gatsby - each of the versions I have seen have some strengths but ultimately fail to translate the novel by me the great strengths of the 1974 are the secondary characters. Karen Black as Myrtle Wilson, Bruce Dern as the brutish Tom Buchanan, Howard Da Sylvia as Meyer Wolfshein, even Lois Chiles as Jordan, and Edward Herrman as Klipspringer were all perfectly cast and gave fine performances. Waiting for a film whose leads are equally well cast
Tender is the night- again miscasting . Too old, not golden not whacky.
The Sun Also Rises - Ava Gardner as Lady Brett was perfection, and I could accept Ty Power as Jake. EddieAlbert did well as Jakes Friend Bill. But - Errol Flynn as Scottish aristo Michael, and Mel Ferrer as Robert Cohn, writer, Jewish Ivy leaguer, failing at managing this drunken crowd
Some Perfect novel to Film - Rebecca, Gone With The Wind, Godfather,
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Post by teleadm on Jan 26, 2023 6:53:09 GMT
I might not go as far as to say that I loved them, but the books I liked and was pleased with the movie versions. As a youngster I was a sucker for reading the books of Jules Verne, didn't read them all, but the movie versions I was most pleased with was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954 and Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959. In other genres William P. McGivern's Odds Against Tomorrow 1959 and J.B. Priestley's The Old Dark House 1932.
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Post by jervistetch on Jan 26, 2023 7:32:43 GMT
My favorite book of all time. I love the Frank Capra film and am so grateful for the effort put into restoring it as well as they could. I actually didn't half mind the musical version made in the 70's. Okay, you can have me committed but can you name a better George Kennedy musical? (Actually, George was one of the only actors in the film with sense enough not to try singing.)
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Post by louise on Jan 26, 2023 8:23:08 GMT
Not many I can think of. Usually it’s either or for me - if I love the book, I usually don’t think much of the film. If I love the film, I think it’s an improvement on the book.
To Catch A Thief is one where I like the novel by David Dodge very much, and also love the film. Although Hitchcock changes some things from the book, it doesn’t worry me much - I can see where some things perhaps aren’t dramatic enough for a film.
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Post by marshamae on Jan 26, 2023 9:22:10 GMT
That’s me too. East of Eden for example I adore the book, and the film really veers away from it. If I were only concerned about fidelity to the book, Elia Kazan’s dipping the story in Freud would be sacrilege. Mainly his rewriting of Cathy is so puffed up. In the book she is simply a monster, a person lacking the ability to see the world with any empathy. This idea was acceptable in the age of faith and it’s more understandable today. But Kazan could not make it play as written. The film , however succeeds brilliantly on its own terms so I just ignore its relation to the novel. There is a terrific faithful version in the mini series and for many books this turns out to be the best way to get a faithful version. The FORSYTE novels of John Galsworthy were much better as a mini series than in the film That FORSYTE Woman.
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