What are the best adaptations that are quite UNfaithful to the source material?
05-18-04, 03:30 PM
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit credits the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit by Gary Wolf, but actually has very little in common with it besides the names of the lead characters.
05-18-04, 03:58 PM
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The 1951 THE THING (From Another World) is one of my favorite sci-fi movies, but it really has little to do with the John Campbell story Who Goes There. John Carpenter was much more faithful to the story in his remake.
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05-18-04, 04:10 PM
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The American Friend, adapted from Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
The Shining, adapted from King's novel. Actually, in this instance I don't think the film is that unfaithful, it's just that King fans were so irate about any changes that they actually bitched about Kubrick changing a hotel room number...
The Shining, adapted from King's novel. Actually, in this instance I don't think the film is that unfaithful, it's just that King fans were so irate about any changes that they actually bitched about Kubrick changing a hotel room number...
05-19-04, 02:15 AM
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Originally posted by wendersfan
The Shining, adapted from King's novel. Actually, in this instance I don't think the film is that unfaithful, it's just that King fans were so irate about any changes that they actually bitched about Kubrick changing a hotel room number...
The Shining, adapted from King's novel. Actually, in this instance I don't think the film is that unfaithful, it's just that King fans were so irate about any changes that they actually bitched about Kubrick changing a hotel room number...
Ah well, it could have been worse. Could have been 30 seconds long. With bunnies.
05-19-04, 02:58 AM
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Originally posted by Mr. Salty
All of the movies so far have at least a passing resemblance to their source material.
For a complete departure, have a look at "Exit to Eden."
The novel by Anne Rice, writing as Anne Rampling, is erotic, near hardcore pornography, loaded with S&M and every kink imaginable.
The movie is a lightweight comedy with Dan Ayckroyd and Rosie O'Donnell as a couple of undercover cops.
All of the movies so far have at least a passing resemblance to their source material.
For a complete departure, have a look at "Exit to Eden."
The novel by Anne Rice, writing as Anne Rampling, is erotic, near hardcore pornography, loaded with S&M and every kink imaginable.
The movie is a lightweight comedy with Dan Ayckroyd and Rosie O'Donnell as a couple of undercover cops.
Don't remind me.
05-19-04, 04:20 AM
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Originally posted by Mr. Salty
All of the movies so far have at least a passing resemblance to their source material.
For a complete departure, have a look at "Exit to Eden."
The novel by Anne Rice, writing as Anne Rampling, is erotic, near hardcore pornography, loaded with S&M and every kink imaginable.
The movie is a lightweight comedy with Dan Ayckroyd and Rosie O'Donnell as a couple of undercover cops.
All of the movies so far have at least a passing resemblance to their source material.
For a complete departure, have a look at "Exit to Eden."
The novel by Anne Rice, writing as Anne Rampling, is erotic, near hardcore pornography, loaded with S&M and every kink imaginable.
The movie is a lightweight comedy with Dan Ayckroyd and Rosie O'Donnell as a couple of undercover cops.
I always had a feeling those two were tacked on.
Which brings up the most important question: Why bother making the movie if you are just going to turn it into something with lame-o comic bits added in?
for O'Donnel in this movie
for Dana Delany. Never had much going for her except for in this movie 
05-19-04, 07:28 AM
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Originally posted by UAIOE
"The Lost World" (JP 2)
The movie is alright but is a mess when compared to the book.
"The Lost World" (JP 2)
The movie is alright but is a mess when compared to the book.
My votes go to:
The Shining
The Lawnmower Man
05-19-04, 08:57 AM
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They totally jettisoned the main character from the novel and made it focus on a secondary character to give Clint Eastwood a bigger role. Wouldn't call it a good adaptation, but was quite unfaithful.
A Time To Kill is probably the best commercial fiction to change some elements of the book. They did a lot of things to keep it upbeat for the audience.
They totally jettisoned the main character from the novel and made it focus on a secondary character to give Clint Eastwood a bigger role. Wouldn't call it a good adaptation, but was quite unfaithful.
A Time To Kill is probably the best commercial fiction to change some elements of the book. They did a lot of things to keep it upbeat for the audience.
Spoiler:
05-19-04, 09:57 AM
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Sum of All Fears, along with the rest of Clancy's books, but this may be the worse.
05-20-04, 02:14 AM
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That is because Speilberg went into production before Crichton was done writing the book. Wrote the screenplay entirely seperate from the book. When the book was done, SS skimmed it for the best ideas and only took one. The trailers over the cliff.
That is because Speilberg went into production before Crichton was done writing the book. Wrote the screenplay entirely seperate from the book. When the book was done, SS skimmed it for the best ideas and only took one. The trailers over the cliff.
except for the trailers over the cliff scene...good stuff.
05-20-04, 10:14 AM
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Originally posted by DonnachaOne
I'd still say that was a fairly close adaptation. I can understand the lack of Gods.
I'd still say that was a fairly close adaptation. I can understand the lack of Gods.
As for The Witches of Eastwick, I like the movie but think it was a big mistake moving the time period to the present.
05-20-04, 01:32 PM
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The Long Goodbye directed by Robert Altman is I believe the only filming of this Raymond Chandler book, and changes the era (from post WWII to the 1970's) and the ending, which is a very important change, revising the entire moral tone of the book. Elliot Gould as Phillip Marlowe at first blush didn't seem to be in the same mold as Bogart, Dick Powell, Robert Montgomery, or James Garner, who had played the character before. Yet, it is still very true to the spirit of the book even with the changes.
05-20-04, 02:54 PM
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Originally posted by wendersfan
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The Shining, adapted from King's novel. Actually, in this instance I don't think the film is that unfaithful, it's just that King fans were so irate about any changes that they actually bitched about Kubrick changing a hotel room number...
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The Shining, adapted from King's novel. Actually, in this instance I don't think the film is that unfaithful, it's just that King fans were so irate about any changes that they actually bitched about Kubrick changing a hotel room number...
05-20-04, 03:48 PM
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Originally posted by Verbal Gorilla
I disagree. I don't like to defend fanboys of anything but I think the contention amoug the adaptation comes from King himself. The point of the book, according to King, was that this hotel drives a good, sane man to insanity whereas the film basically has Jack being insane from the getgo and the hotel doesn't do much except provide wierdness. King's version is a character study whereas the film is just a horror flic.
I disagree. I don't like to defend fanboys of anything but I think the contention amoug the adaptation comes from King himself. The point of the book, according to King, was that this hotel drives a good, sane man to insanity whereas the film basically has Jack being insane from the getgo and the hotel doesn't do much except provide wierdness. King's version is a character study whereas the film is just a horror flic.
05-20-04, 04:21 PM
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Originally posted by Cusm
Sum of All Fears, along with the rest of Clancy's books, but this may be the worse.
Sum of All Fears, along with the rest of Clancy's books, but this may be the worse.
05-20-04, 04:47 PM
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Originally posted by Morf
I agree. Which is the reason I greatly prefer the TV miniseries to the movie. Blasphemy, I know. But that's what I think.
I agree. Which is the reason I greatly prefer the TV miniseries to the movie. Blasphemy, I know. But that's what I think.
Kubrick made it a horror film from frame one. It was never about characters in extreme circumstances.
05-20-04, 04:57 PM
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Originally posted by Morf
I agree. Which is the reason I greatly prefer the TV miniseries to the movie. Blasphemy, I know. But that's what I think.
I agree. Which is the reason I greatly prefer the TV miniseries to the movie. Blasphemy, I know. But that's what I think.
05-20-04, 05:39 PM
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Originally posted by Numanoid
The original Frankenstein.
The original Frankenstein.
I remember reading the orginal book.
i remember it being extremely boring and the words "sublime" and "melancholy" were used far too many times.
Normally i would have accounted hating this book because i had to read it in a High School class, however i also had to read "Brave New World" and "Fahrenheit 451" and i enjoyed those books alot.
11-22-06, 02:32 AM
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Great book (won the Edgar Award among writers when it came out), and was made into the movie . The two have the same basic plot but are pretty different, and are both great.
Great book (won the Edgar Award among writers when it came out), and was made into the movie . The two have the same basic plot but are pretty different, and are both great.
11-22-06, 03:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Buttmunker
What were some of the major differences between the original story and the 1939 film?
Return to Oz was much more accurate in tone then The Wizard of Oz when compared to the books. It would be interesting to see if any studio ever decides to take a crack at faithful adaptations of the Oz series now that Lord of the Rings and Chronic-what-cles of Narnia have both been successful.
