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Originally Posted by StarlaJane Dracula: any film adaptation is better than the book, which is frightfully (teehee!) boring.
Hamlet: I know that this is sacrilege but, as I am not a fan of Shakespeare, Branaugh's adaptation made me like the famous story much more than I did when reading it.
I sooo agree! Hated and did not finish the book, only part I liked was that weird 'bug-eating 'guy', lol!
I saw my library's copies of two that I didn't even know were based on books, and IMO the films are much better. First 'Love Comes Softly' the Michael Landon Jr .made-movie is so sweet and such a hoot to watch because Widower Clark's daughter is about 10 in the movie and her interactions with his marriage of convenience bride new widow Missy has some hilarious,but also very touching moments ,but in the book, Clark's daughter is an infant ,so all of is missing!Not even close to being as good.
Same with 'The Magic Of Ordinary Days'. The movie is just so touching, an emotional roller coaster,but I did not care for the book.I wonder if it's because I saw the films first?
The original Godfather novel is a fun pulpy read, but it has some subplots that go on way too long and take away from the main story(Sonny's mistress Lucy Mancini and her whole plot is ridiculous). The film on the other hand is an outright classic.
Yes, totally agree with this. I read the book only a few years ago, and I was stunned at the low quality of the writing. Can't believe that tripe became the cinematic masterpiece that it is, but I guess it just shows how immensely talented and visionary Coppola is.
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In fact, English Lit teachers everywhere should be strung up by their thumbs for requiring students to read them.
They are scripts, and were NEVER meant to be read except by persons acting or otherwise participating in the production of the plays!
We read Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet out loud as plays in class when I was in 9th and 10th grade. Since I was the smallest boy in my class (all-boys school), I read Juliet. I was so embarrased. People called me "Julie" ever after.
James Agee's A Death in the Family, repackaged as All the Way Home (1963) comes to mind here; the book had to be summarized and simplified, of course, but it was presented in such a way as to make the story better-understood by young readers. I was about to enter high school at the time, and I'll never forget this work.
I didn't realize that A Death in the Family had been made into a movie. I'll have to look that up. I really like the book. I do wonder how the movie could be better than the book? I believe the book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1960.
Breakfast at Tiffany's. I prefer the movie. The novella is odd and anticlimatic. And Audrey Hepburn is so amazing in the movie that nothing can compare.
My Sister's Keeper. The book had a very contrived and almost unbelievable ending, but the movie was very realistic. Plus, all the actors were very, very good in their roles.
East of Eden The movie was so much better because James Dean of course, but if you read the book you will be depressed for days.When one of the main characters starts out killing her parents you know it's not going to be good but Steinbeck was contrasting good with evil. He made the evil character really, really evil.
Breakfast at Tiffany's. I prefer the movie. The novella is odd and anticlimatic. And Audrey Hepburn is so amazing in the movie that nothing can compare.
But Capote was such a brilliant writer. One appreciates that book mainly for the writing. You're right, though; the movie was very well done.
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