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Post by Johnny-Come-Lately on Mar 11, 2017 23:24:18 GMT
Rumble Fish - S.E. Hinton
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Post by Johnny-Come-Lately on Mar 11, 2017 23:52:45 GMT
Rumble Fish - S.E. Hinton Good one. What about The Outsiders? Did you like that one? I liked the film Rumble Fish better, but I know that The Outsiders is Hinton's most revered work. I haven't read either one. I actually haven't seen The Outsiders. I've only seen bits and parts, though I remember Diane Lane.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 12, 2017 2:13:35 GMT
IN COLD BLOOD (true life novel) THE EXECUTIONERS SONG (true life novel) THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE
will post more later.
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Post by marshamae on Mar 12, 2017 2:22:58 GMT
Well, I like all the Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte films
I love the Hemingway and Fitzgerald films but ultimately find them unsatisfying because they miss so much
Snows of Kilimanjaro is by me ,one of the more successful films of a Hemingway piece. The fact that it is based on a story, not a novel reinforcesone of my Theories about sources of good films, that often novels just have too much material to make a great film.
The versions of Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night are deviled by strange casting, Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones as the Divers, Mia Farrow as Dailey, ugh . In other respects, though, the Redford Gatsby had very good moments with Bruce Dern as Daisy's brutish husband and Karen Black as his mistress giving perfect performances.
I really love Last Tycoon ,however. De Niro, at first glance an odd choice for Leander Starr, actually was perfect, chasing lost love.
I'm a big fan of Breakfast at Tiffany's , despite its failure to present all the edgy steaminess of Holly's life.
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Post by pippinmaniac on Mar 12, 2017 2:40:42 GMT
Gone With the Wind The Wizard of Oz Ben Hur To Kill a Mockingbird How Green Was My Valley War of the Worlds 2001: A Space Odyssey The Thing from Another World
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 12, 2017 2:53:41 GMT
i am also a big fan of the film. though INGRID BOULTING was terrible.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 12, 2017 2:56:17 GMT
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. i love the movie and the novel by mcmurty was pretty good too.
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Post by neurosturgeon on Mar 12, 2017 3:10:12 GMT
I worked in a high school library for 11 years, and it was always a standard question: Was his book made into a movie? You knew that the student was going to try to avoid reading the book and watch the movie instead. I would sometimes warn them when the book and the movie had differences that would be notable, citing the episode of "Leave It To Beaver" when he wrote a book report based on the Ritz Brothers version of "The Three Musketeers." Once, am English teacher studying for her Master's asked me if I had a copy of "The Innocents," because she had failed to do her reading for her class. I did help her out.
I always warned those reading GWTW not to forget Scarlet's other two children, as that was a dead giveaway of just watching the movie.
My favorite book to screen: "Lost Horizon" by James Hilton.
Also:
"Beau Geste" by P.C. Wren "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier "Kings Row" by Henry Bellaman
Books that I was disappointed in the films:
"The Great Impersonation" by E. Phillips Openheim "The Laat Tycoon" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wish that someone would do a TV miniseries of "Kings Row" and the sequel, "Parris Mitchell of Kings Row" today because censorship kept some of the more interesting aspects of the book from being portrayed. But they would need to keep the Erich Wolfgang Korngold score
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 3:34:04 GMT
Alice in Wonderland (1952)
The Shining
The Notebook
The Passion of the Christ
Dances With Wolves
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 3:46:24 GMT
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey The Innocents, Henry James Schindler’s List, Thomas Keneally Dracula, Bram Stoker To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Philip K Dick
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Post by london777 on Mar 12, 2017 4:40:11 GMT
I could be wrong here, but I always understood 2001 was an original screenplay which was "novelized" while the movie was being made or shortly thereafter?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 4:51:12 GMT
I could be wrong here, but I always understood 2001 was an original screenplay which was "novelized" while the movie was being made or shortly thereafter? The Sentinel, a short story by ACClarke was the basis for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Mar 12, 2017 17:46:10 GMT
IN COLD BLOOD
DR. JECKYL AND MR. HYDE (1941)
DRACULA
FRANKENSTEIN
GONE WITH THE WIND
NOW,VOYAGER
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 20:12:27 GMT
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck The Cider House Rules - John Irving Love in the Time of Cholera - Garcia Marquez The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway Garp - John Irving
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 0:18:44 GMT
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck The Cider House Rules - John Irving Love in the Time of Cholera - Garcia Marquez The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway Garp - John Irving Excellent call on The World According to Garp. Robin William was excellent, just a great film all the way around. And who can forget John Lithgow. Caitlin Jenner, eat your heart out!
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Post by kijii on Mar 13, 2017 1:04:45 GMT
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Post by marshamae on Mar 13, 2017 1:12:49 GMT
i am also a big fan of the film. though INGRID BOULTING was terrible. I liked Ingrid Boulting. I liked the idea that she was rather ordinary and Starr found her so remarkable. It was , I feel, an interesting comment on Thalberg's infatuation with Norma Shearer, a star whom many found unremarkable.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 13, 2017 5:07:59 GMT
Happened across some facts and figures that may be of interest here....
The most filmed 20th century novelist is Englishman Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) currently with over 160 British American and German films credited to his writings, over 130 are from his short stories and novels and the remainder from play adaptions.
Zane Grey (1875-1939) earns the title for the most filmed American writer with over 100 films credited to his western novels, all were American productions mostly B grade features an exception was a single film Rangle River that was apparently filmed in Australia in 1937
French writer Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) works have been brought to the screen in over 120 films. Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) over 100 film adaptions, Anna Karenina (1967)
American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe over 100 films , The Black Cat (1934)
Russian short story novelist and playwright Anton Chekhov over 80 films, Dama s sobachkoy , The Lady With A Dog (1960) . and there is no surprise that the most filmed author of all time is poet & playwright William Shakespeare
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Post by movielover on Mar 13, 2017 5:27:37 GMT
Goodfellas The Godfather Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Jaws L.A. Confidential Dolores Claiborne Sophie's Choice Paper Moon The Hunt for Red October Misery Deliverance The Paper Chase Disclosure Manhunter Fast Times at Ridgemont High Stand by Me The Exorcist Sense and Sensibility Ordinary People Game Change Bridget Jones' Diary Contact Rumble Fish The Last Picture Show
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Post by glenesq on Mar 13, 2017 8:49:26 GMT
A movie I thought was a pretty good adaption of a book I've read was the movie Lawless (2012) based on the book The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant. The book itself is based on the true story of the Bondurant's grandfather and uncles who ran whisky in Virginia in the 1920s.
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