http://www.calitreview.com/forum/ Just another bbPress community en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:35:35 +0000 http://www.calitreview.com/forum/topic/films-of-books#post-54 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:30:15 +0000 deborah 54@http://www.calitreview.com/forum/ <p>I can't think of a worst right now, but THE GRADUATE was a phenomenal adaptation of a book by Charles Webb. </p> http://www.calitreview.com/forum/topic/films-of-books#post-22 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:10:23 +0000 claudia 22@http://www.calitreview.com/forum/ <p>I agree with Cider House Rules, it didn't stray too far from the book &#38; made it very believable. My least favorite was The Green Mile by Stephen King, it wasn't nearly as enjoyable as the book. </p> http://www.calitreview.com/forum/topic/films-of-books#post-16 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:36:15 +0000 robin 16@http://www.calitreview.com/forum/ <p>My favorite film adaptation was "To Kill a Mockingbird"</p> <p>My least favorite, maybe because it was so recent, was "The Da Vinci Code." I think fitler is right, many more bad adaptations come to mind than good ones, unfortunately. </p> http://www.calitreview.com/forum/topic/films-of-books#post-15 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:41:21 +0000 fitler 15@http://www.calitreview.com/forum/ <p>I thought THE GODFATHER films far, far surpassed Mario Puzo's book. Two John Irving books, I thought transferred well to film: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP and THE CIDER HOUSE RULES. </p> <p>Disasters are far too many to mention, but BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES probably tops my list. </p> http://www.calitreview.com/forum/topic/films-of-books#post-14 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:42:10 +0000 Jem Bloomfield 14@http://www.calitreview.com/forum/ <p>I should think we're all familiar with the experience of going to see the film made of a favourite book, and being really disappointed. Conventional wisdom tells us that the two forms are totally different, and it's ridiculous to judge one medium on the criteria of the others, but it's tough not to, partcularly when one feels a "prior commitment" to the book. (Hugh Laurie says h and Stephen Fry initially refused the other of playing Jeeves and Wooster in a television version of the P G Wodehouse stories, on the grounds that Wodehouse's genius was verbal, and it would be impossible to act it - before agreeing because if the stories were going to be loused up, they wanted it to be by them rather than by someone else!) </p> <p>I was wondering what everyone's best and worst experiences with "the film of the book" (or tv versions) were? Has it ever happened in reverse? I was bowled over by Ian Richardson in the tv political drama "House of Cards" - adapted from Michael Dobbs' novel by Andrew Davies who went on to script the famous BBC Pride and Prejudice - but when I sought out the original book I found it rather badly written and uninventive. </p>