Cugalabanza Posted June 3, 2009 Author Share Posted June 3, 2009 IIRC, the dialogue for the film Virginia Woolf is very much like if not pretty much verbatim from the play. And most of the power of that film is simply the great cutting dialogue and explosive performance of the four leads, especially Burton and Taylor. Not sure I would count that as much of an adaptation, that was almost a filmed play. Good point, but I don't think that takes away from the film at all. It was the correct choice to preserve much of the feel of a play by using so much of the original dialogue, long takes, etc... The movie did depart in some ways (it was shot with multiple camera angles, close-ups, etc... and was staged more like a movie than a play. Also, the scene at the bar in the movie was invented for the movie if I remember correctly.) True, it's the great performances from the actors that really make it, but it's a film with a legitimate identity and style of its own in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Fischer Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Honorable Mention: If it was a "movie" and not a "mini-series" then "Lonesome Dove" would rank as an all-time favorite. I remember the first time I saw it on TV I remarked, " This is how I pictured the book" almost scene for scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bills_fan Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 The Natural Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans4e64 Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 I don't want to be the Thread Police, but I think posters should have to have read the book first, before they saw the movie, or put an asterisk by it. If you see the movie first, you have so many ideas in your head because of what you saw about the characters and locations and everything else that it completely distorts (for better or worse, it doesn't matter) the experience you would have had coming to the book fresh. Isn't it true of the exact opposite as well? Either one you're getting to first is going to form the way you see/think of the movie/characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 Gone, Baby, Gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philly McButterpants Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 The Caine Mutiny Another vote for To Kill a Mockingbird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dib Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 If anyone says "Starship Troopers", I will stuff them in an oil drum and dump them in a landfill. I could not agree more. How about Fantastic Voyage though? I thought it was pretty darn faithful to the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 I just watched Nineteen Eighty Four on my DVR. There are several full-on bush shots in it but Julia also has hairy armpits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tennesseeboy Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 Good books/movie I read/saw: Found a list: American Psycho Catch 22 A Clockwork Orange The Day of the Triffids Devil in a Blue Dress The English Patient Fight Club Get Shorty The Godfather The Hound of the Baskervilles Jaws LA Confidential Lolita Lord of the Flies The Maltese Falcon One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Outsiders Rebecca The Spy Who Came in From the Cold The Talented Mr Ripley To Kill a Mockingbird****** (My Favorite book/movie) Others off the top of my head: Almost all the Raymond Chandler/Daishell Hammett books/movies The Thin Man, etc The James Cain books/movies: Double Indemnity, Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce Graham Greene: The Third Man Many other vintage crime novels The Natural Henry V, Halmet, Julius Caesar GREAT LIST...I'm going to cut and paste and view and review a number of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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