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ITT: Film adaptations of literary works that are better than the source material.

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>> No.1330724

Choke & Fight Club.

Atonement.

>> No.1330735

sage

>> No.1330739

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1

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Avatra

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Prince of Denmark (Hamlet)

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>> No.1330773

The Da Vinci code movie wasted less of my time than the book did. That makes it better.

>> No.1330788

Beauty and the Beast is a great fucking movie; is it based on a French folk tale or something? If so, I'd like to read that and see which is better.

>> No.1330793

>>1330788

Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740. The best-known written version was an abridgement of her work published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves; an English translation appeared in 1757.

Variants of the tale are known across Italy. In France, for example, Zémire et Azor is an operatic version of the story of Beauty and the Beast written by Marmontel and composed by Grétry in 1771. It had enormous success well into the 19th century. It is based on the second version of the tale. The tale has perhaps been made most recently famous by the retelling in the 1991 Disney film.

Amour pour amour, by Nivelle de la Chaussée, is a 1742 play based on Villeneuve's version.

>j/k. disney wrote it.

>> No.1330808

>>1330712
although i suspect you're trolling, i thought that that movie is better than most people gave it credit for.