[ SECRET POST #2708 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2708 ⌋

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[Degrassi Junior High/Degrassi High and Saved By The Bell]


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[The Cinema Snob]

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[Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty]


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[Silicon Valley]


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[Xavier Dolan]


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[Pacific Rim]


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[Sailor Moon]


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[Iwan Rheon]


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[Love Stage!!]


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[The Losers (movie)]


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[K-pop]










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Comments

Book to screen

[(Anonymous)]

Tell me your fave adaptations! Whether because it's a direct faithful adaptation or because they changed enough things to make it a good compliment to the book. Some of my favorites:

Babe. Great acting, kept the spirit of a Dick King-Smith book, and the little 'chapter' transitions were super cute.

Holes. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie, and though a lot of that was PAtricia Arquette and Dule Hill I liked everyone else too!

...OK, FINE. Lord of the Rings. Such a cliche inclusion but there you go!

Walking Dead. Graphic novel to TV screen, but I guess it counts? I like that it uses a lot of characters and events from the novels, but doesn't try to follow it closely otherwise.

Re: Book to screen

[kaijinscendre]

I like TWD adaptation as well. I actually prefer it.

I enjoy the Watchmen film because of the ending. Fucking space squid. *rolls eyes*

I also love the My Sister's Keeper movie adaptation because the book ending sucked.

Interview With A Vampire (excluding the casting of Armand) is wonderfully acted and done. It was also about 100x less boring than reading the book.

Re: Book to screen

[loracarol]

Fuck My Sister's Keeper. I hate it so much.

Movie was a lot better.

Re: Book to screen

[ypsilon42]

I do like the Watchmen movie and I understand that the squid would have been hard to pull of outside of a comic book, but I dislike the change anyway, because imo it changed the message. In the comic the squid was supposed to make people unite against a possible threat from the outside. Making Dr Manhatten, who has been compared to a godlike being in-universe, the threat, changed the message to people not fighting, because it could piss of a mighty being and they might be punished. Idk, while I liked the movie, I felt that was kinda unnecessary.

Re: Book to screen

[vethica]

Just here to second the Holes love. For my money, it's the best book-to-movie adaptation I've ever seen.

Re: Book to screen

[(Anonymous)]

I really like the adaption of 'I Capture the Castle' is wonderful. It's not a 100% adaptation, but it's definitely captured the spirit of the book.

Re: Book to screen

[(Anonymous)]

That's exactly the way I feel about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Re: Book to screen

[ginainthekingsroad]

I love the adaptation of Peter Carey's Oscar & Lucinda. I saw the film first; but it made me seek out the book, which I also really liked. It's a close adaptation-- some condensing, streamlining, etc.-- for the purposes of a more focused movie, and that's all to the movie's benefit. But when I reread the novel, I also like the digressions that were cut, and the slightly more cynical tone. The endings are slightly different as well-- and while I can see the book's is more "realistic" as it is told a family history, the emotional payoff of the movie ending is a little more satisfying (and it makes equal sense as the book's when you consider it's not an average family history).

Re: Book to screen

[loracarol]

Seconding Holes and The Lord of the Rings.

Holes was just such a great movie, and the things they changed (Stanley being overweight in the beginning) made sense when it came to the actual process of filming.

Lord of the Rings because I had a really hard time getting through the books, but I really liked the movies.

Also, The Princess Bride and The Princess Diaries were both really good IMO. Especially The Princess Bride. I know that some people enjoy the whole "it was a real book and now it's being abridged and here's how" aspects, but I personally did not, and I found the grandpa/grandson bits to be cuter.

Re: Book to screen

[philstar22]

Oh, Princess Bride. Forgot that one. And I loved the Princess Diaries too.

Re: Book to screen

[(Anonymous)]

I was coming here to say The Princess Bride. It was perfect, just absolutely perfect.

Re: Book to screen

[philstar22]

Lord of the Rings. Cliched but some of my favorite movies ever.

Hunger Games

Some of the Harry Potter movies

Poirot- the Suchet tv series. Suchet basically is the perfect Poirot.

Game of Thrones for the most part.

oh and the Dune and Children of Dune miniseries. Those were awesome.

Chamber of Secrets

[(Anonymous)]

Oddly, I thought the second Harry Potter movie worked better as a movie, and I don't think that way at all about the other ones. Jo, bless her, still hadn't really learned how to write drama and comedy, so it just wasn't as well written. CoS as a movie definitely had its flaws, but I felt things in a way I didn't in the book.

Re: Book to screen

[sarillia]

I say this every time but I think the Hunger Games films are doing a great job of taking advantage of the difference between a book and a movie. I'm really looking forward to the next one.

Re: Book to screen

[(Anonymous)]

I can't believe I forgot that one! The adaptations really are top-notch, and its amazin how much more you get just by not being confined to Katniss' (unreliable) 1st-person narration. I expect Haymitch to be the real hero of Mockingjay, 4realsies.

Re: Book to screen

[(Anonymous)]

Almost everything about the books' flaws and the movies' strengths makes more sense when you find out that Suzanne Collins spent the majority of her career as a screenwriter rather than a novelist. She basically wrote the novelization of a movie that didn't exist yet.

Re: Book to screen

[(Anonymous)]

The Notebook. I thought the book's plot was pretty lackluster but Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams sold it on-screen.

Matilda. I found the book really depressing but the movie was excellent.

Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing (although I could take or leave Keanu Reeves... then again, I found his Don John kind of unintentionally funny which works)

Anne of Green Gables

[(Anonymous)]

The Princess Bride

Red Dragon

And so many things by Stephen King:
The Shawshank Redemption
Stand By Me
Silver Bullet
It
The Dead Zone (2002 TV series)
Cujo
Carrie
The Stand
Christine
Pet Sematary

Re: Book to screen

[intrigueing]

Holes was simply amazing.

Also, To Kill A Mockingbird. I actually liked it better than the book -- it was a lot more subtle, and flowed better. The only bad thing about the movie is that it cut out Miss Maudie Atkinson.

I really liked the BBC adaptation of Little Dorrit, except for the last episode, which tried to cram too much information into too short a time.

Re: Book to screen

[diet_poison]

Holes is good! The book was better, but the movie was definitely enjoyable.

I honestly enjoy the HP movies (probably also cliche answer) as well

Re: Book to screen

[(Anonymous)]

Ella Enchanted, and fuck the haters.

Re: Book to screen

[silverr]

Clockwork Orange - which I would have thought almost impossible to adapt.

Silence of the Lambs - A very faithful adaptation -- it still amazes me that they somehow managed to get the entire book in.

Re: Book to screen

[iceyred]

The Girl with the Pearl Earring.

I actually think the movie was better than the book.

Re: Book to screen

[(Anonymous)]

Atonement? I can't recall. The movie and book blurred into one for me.

I also love the movie adaptations of LotR, I love the books and the movies.

Re: Book to screen

[(Anonymous)]

The Joy Luck Club.