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shandy8 — 18 years ago(September 16, 2007 12:40 PM)
I have taught this story for many years in my high school English classes and rememebered reading it in school when I was a teenager, but I had never seen the movie until today. It is very well done but somewhat different from Connel's famous story.
What I appreciated most about the movie was that it was made by the same group of film makers who created the amazing "King Kong" and it has teh same kind of spirit.
The addition of characters not featured in the story do not ruin the story, and, in fact, I like them.
The themes are all intact and the atmosphere is wonderful. I will show this to my students (even though they will groan when they see that it is in black and white). -
lapunk182 — 18 years ago(September 17, 2007 04:46 PM)
I'm also in Honors English 1, and we just finished reading it too
So far we've read
-Contents of a Dead Mans Pocket
-The Most Dangerous Game
-The Cask of Amontillado
-Blues Aint No Mockin Bird
-The Scarlett Ibis
-The Necklace
-Snow
And one other that I cant seem to remember
Well I thought that it was a wonderful story, I also feel that they should re-make it, but not with too many Hollywood names, seriously I feel that Fincher or even Lynch could do this story to justice
I felt that Zaroff was similar to a character in a novel I once read (also seen the movie) his name was Patrick Bateman and the novel was "American Psycho"I'm not quite sure if anyone else feels the way I do, I would like to hear if anyone does? Thanks
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Travman93-1 — 18 years ago(September 29, 2007 07:15 PM)
I read it recently in English class, also. We were having a discussion about the movie and I noticed that the movie "The Condemned" seemed very similar.
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snowsurfer97 — 17 years ago(February 23, 2009 12:06 AM)
Yea I read this for a class also and loved it, also thought it would be an epic movie if done right. I haven't seen the movie, but I heard there are some slight differences in parts of the story but nothing major.
On a kinda related note, I was flipping through the channels tonight and stumbled apon Hydra, a sci-fi TV movie that is so awesomely bad I had to contiune watchingit had rich people hunting other people on a deserted island. I just found it funny that this crappy movie used one of my favorite short stories as its basis. -
rmm413-1 — 16 years ago(November 24, 2009 05:15 PM)
Like some of the others, I read it in 9th grade too and thought that it was one of the best and most memorable stories I read in high school. I was excited to see the movie on TCM one morning, and I enjoyed that a lot also.