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#57349 02/17/02 11:52 AM
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...sometimes a playwright or screenwriter can do wonders for a mediocre book

I would offer
-- Black Orpheus
-- Bridge on the River Kwai
-- Our Man in Havana
-- 2001


(You can tell how many movies _I've_ seen recently!)


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, Max!

movies/books

When I first heard that Turner Productions was filming George Orwell's Animal Farm I was very skeptical, and said that they should just leave it alone because they'll never do justice to the book. However, I found the movie, Animal Farm, to be superb! (it aired about 3 years ago on TNT) I was highly impressed with the treatment, and the special effects were also magnificient (live-action talking animals). If you haven't seen this one treat yourself, find it and enjoy!

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."


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I thought that The Loved One was better as a movie but just because the character of Aimee Thanatogenous was more developed in the movie.

For me, the movie Dr. Strangelove edged out the book just because of the scene in the War Room when the camera panned across the table sliding quickly past the book Selected European Targets in Megadeaths. That kind of subtlety can't happen in a book.

The reason that the book usually far outclasses the movie is that it's just not possible to fit a book into the time period that a movie can sustain. Robert Graves's I, Claudius was made into a thirteen hour BBC special. They managed to squeeze in about one half of the first book and maybe a tenth of the second, Claudius the god and his wife, Messalina.


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Sounds like heresy, doesn't it? But there are times when a playwrite or screenwriter can do wonders to a mediocre book

Or a director. Stanley Kubrick, a genius of our time, made movies that transcended the best of the books on which they were based. Can anyone think of an exception?


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Arthur C. Clarke 9and someone else whom i have forgotten now) wrote the screenplay for 2001, and after the movie came out Clarke wrote the novel. Themovie is far superior to the book.

Another one where the movie is better is A Clockwork Orange. And if Alien was a novel before it became a movie, the movie is FAR FAR better because, well, just because.
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I'd nominate Exodus, principally because IMHO Uris cannot write anything more sophisticated than a laundry ticket.

I trust no one will nominate The Greatest Story Ever Told?


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That was a creepy, very cool ghost story! But I don't think there was a book--or is a book--that preceded it. Does anyone know anything about the script?

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Yeah, Max...and you must've been mooretified when they hired Roger to replace Connery Bondİ! I went and copyrighted the name for ya, mate! you deserve it!


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Wordwind, do you mean The Others movie with Nicole Kidman?

As soon as the daughter said that the others were viewing the house (sometime in the first quarter of the movie) I knew the whole point of the plot. The word "viewing" made is so obvious to me. My family were in the dark till the end. (y'all notice I didn't give away the end just in case somebody hasn't seen it)


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