Garland and Boyle
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Roguetrooper74 — 16 years ago(November 29, 2009 03:32 PM)
Either way the interpretation of the novel was poorly adapted on screen.
There were too many things wrong with the film.Ewen Mcgregor would have been suited the part of Richard,more so than Di Caprio.Not enough was made of the relationships between the other characters on the beach.Robert Caryle's Daffy
should have featured more in the breakdown of Richard's character.The ending
was a commercial cop out.Way too many things to mention.
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Donald_Hai — 17 years ago(January 07, 2009 10:46 AM)
Not really, I mean Sunshine and 28 Days Later was excellent. In fact I've read all his books, and seen all of Danny Boyle's films, and I really liked The Beach, it is a very underrated film BTW.
If Talk is Cheap, than I can't Afford to Pay Visits. -
darkosilencIO — 18 years ago(April 28, 2007 10:32 AM)
The Beach can be a commercial failure, but I don't think Danny Boyle's interest is to please the audience. The Beach is a remarkable piece of drama and I'm extremely annoyed by people who keep saying the films they make from books are crap. First of all, a movie is not a book, so adaptating a book for the screen means just "betraying it" most of the time. Second thing, I bet a lot of you wouldn't have read those books if a movie wasn't made. So, basically you should thank people like sir Stanley Kubrick (rest in peace) - for instance - who transformed a bunch of not-so-bity novels in great artworks that now are considered unanimously fundamental milestones in the history of cinema.
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!!!deleted!!! (1900212) — 18 years ago(April 28, 2007 06:25 PM)
The Beach was a good film, but when taken in light of the book, is quite poor. Danny Boyle is quite an adept filmmaker, and so it is really suprising that he somehow managed to miss the essence of the book when putting it onto the bigscreen. Much of the menace and society from the book disipated in the wake of a pleasant but almost gimiky pop culture.
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bm_productions — 17 years ago(August 26, 2008 11:46 AM)
Are you forgetting that Leo is only in the film because of studio insistence. Is it not possible that certain aspects of the film had to change in order to please these same studio types.
Regardless of this however, The Beach is a brilliant film and one of my favorites.
Oh and so I can keep on topic with the original poster. I'm certain that the relationship between Boyle and Garland stretches no further than, Boyle made his adaption, Garland handed over a script he'd written, Boyle got it made, film became success, Boyle wants more of a good thing and likes this critical acclaim and commercial success. Not too much mysyery to it really. -
bpvalentine — 10 years ago(July 03, 2015 06:46 PM)
Only children think directors dont consider their audience while making the film. Most of the people I know who idolize Kubrick think he held the world in contempt or something rather than as a guy who was looking for something he liked that the audience would respond to. Only a child or ignoramus thinks movies are made in such vanity and selfishness.