Good book to movie Adaptation
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soapbox original gangster — 1 year ago(April 02, 2025 07:28 PM)
Nothing Lasts Forever ( by roderick thorpe)===>> Die Hard
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58 minutes ( by walter wager) ====>> Die Hard 2
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in the novel,
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up ahead:
his daughter goes out the window with Hans Gruber, hence the title, i assume: death is inevitable, therefore nothing lasts forever, even your innocent child -
cryptoflovecraft — 1 year ago(April 03, 2025 12:59 AM)
Crime and Punishment (1935) - Stars Peter Lorre as Raskolnikov.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Sentinel (1977)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Salem's Lot (1979 - miniseries)
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978 - miniseries) - The novel is just called Harvest Home by Thomas Tyron. It's a great Gothic horror novel from the 70s and as good as anything Stephen King was writing at the time. I highly recommend both the book and the chilling miniseries starring Bette Davis.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - Great adaptation of Orwell's novel.
The Trial (1962) - Stars Anthony Perkins and Orson Welles. Stunning adaptation of Kafka's great novel. -
JohnnyBoy — 1 year ago(April 03, 2025 01:04 AM)
Don't agree with A Clockwork Orange (1971). The book was far better, and Kubrick ****ed it up in the film with barely any Nadsat language. Anthony Burgess hated what he did to his book.
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cryptoflovecraft — 1 year ago(April 03, 2025 01:11 AM)
Hmm. Some things that I found different: Alex was much younger in the novel (I think he was only 14) and the book's final chapter (Alex's redemption) is of course omitted from Kubrick's film. I actually prefer Kubrick's more cynical ending.
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JohnnyBoy — 1 year ago(April 03, 2025 01:02 AM)
The closest adaptation of any is The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh. Nothing was changed.
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/.ㅤ — 1 year ago(April 03, 2025 03:01 AM)
Are you looking for good movies or good movies that were better than the book?
There have been a lot of good movies based on books. Not nearly as many are agreed upon to be better than the source material. Especially when the source material is more graphic in nature (children's books, comics, video games, etc.). The exception would be older tv shows made into theatrical films.
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Dazed — 11 months ago(May 08, 2025 05:43 PM)
I read it as a group of five or maybe six books. I read after I'd seen the film but can't remember what my thoughts were on the quality of the books just that the film was true to the book.
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Innocent User — 11 months ago(May 08, 2025 05:51 PM)
The book is written in the first person, so it's already off to a bad start. I am struggling to think of any decent novels using that narrative style, but I'm sure there are some.
It's just ****. I'm not a Stephen King fan though, so there's that too. He's a creator of great stories, but he's terrible at telling them. His writing has always bored me.
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