/lit/ - Literature

>>19289337

>>19289337
Bump.

Everything Kubrick

>>19289425
absolutely. it seemed to me like he picked books with some kernal of potential but that he didn't respect to the point that he was afraid to fuck with them and make them better

>>19289353
This is actually pretty good.

>Jaws
>Kubrick's Shining
>Godfather
>Pride and Prejudice (both the Colin Firth series and the 2005 version)
>Anything adapted from Philip K Dick
>Prisoner of Azkaban

>>19289337
I've heard all the scorsese adaptions are better than the books

>>19289801
This, in the reality that Jodorowsky's was made.

The Godfather book is pure garbage.

>>19289531
>Anything adapted from Philip K Dick
With the exception of "Screamers"

>>19290011
>Screamers
Never heard of it.

>>19289916
Jodorowsky is for plebs and literal retards

The absolute easiest way to identify a top tier plebeian is if someone prefers LOTR movies to the book.

>>19289460
I love John Ford so much.

>>19289337
you guys better not post blade runner

>>19289459
>>19289425
So neither of you have read Barry Lyndon, have you?

>>19289425
>>19289459
Wish he’d have done Vidal’s Julian

>>19289425
Except Lolita

>>19290326
Barry Lyndon, Lolita, and A Clockwork Orange are all fine books, better than the films.

>>19289337
Kesey's book was better
>>19289353
Joyce's book was better
>>19289460
Steinbeck's book was just as good
>>19289531
Yes on Jaws, Shining, Godfather. No on Austen's P&P. N/A on Dick given that the adaptations of his work take (at most) only surface elements and ignore his general mysticism. Don't care about YA so whatever on Harry Potter
>>19289801
Both are overrated. Lynch's Dune was better than the new one.
>>19290032
Never heard of it. Would you recommend, anon?

>>19289801
i keep seeing this, it's a movie poster I assume.
the big orange ball and the name, DUNC, lead me to believe it is about basketball -- which makes me wonder why it's so poppulare here...?

>>19290331
not him, but La Pianiste is very comfy in its own weird, french way. Also Isabelle Huppert is a god tier actress

>>19289425
except A Clockwork Orange

One of my all time favorites. never read the book. never will.

>>19289531
>prisoner of Azkaban
That was literally the best book. The order of the Phoenix film was multitudes better than the book as it condensed all that bullshit with that cunt headmistress.

books will always be better

Fernando Di Leo‘s Milano Calibro 9 (and La Mala Ordina) is better than Scerbanenco‘s Milano Calibro 9

>>19290032
this

Big better Murakami stan, but Miike handled it much better.

>>19290032
This probably one of my favorite films, if not my favorite. I'll read the book one day.

tarkovsky said in an interview that he only adapted mediocre literature because there was a clear possibility of enhancement, and his diary that he hated strugatskys personally.

>>19290493
Nah

>>19289353
Len Deighton was a hack, the films are fun.

>>19289337
Absolutely shit taste. The book is far better and captures the schizophrenic horror of the asylum and Ratched much more artistically.

>>19289337
>ITT: people get filtered by lit and with their dopamine frenzied adhd minds claim the movie was better, just cause they had the mental capacity of a modern hyllic to understand it better

>>19291102
but that's a boring slog enjoyed by pseuds while roadside picnic is a decent read

This really fits for anything by Martin Scorsese too… Goodfellas, The Irishman, Silence, The Age of Innocence

>>19291349
Honestly, love the movie, but agreed. Ratched in the movie was toned way down and didn’t live up to any attributed hype

Fight club

>>19290041
filtered

the haunting of hill house tv show

>>19290041
And pseuds too

>>19291475
based, the movie is incredibly dull but the book is pretty good. I think I prefer the book to the games as well, but it's much closer.

>>19289337
Can't believe it wasn't posted yet

>>19293100
because the book is better

>>19289337
That's one of my favorite movies.

The book is far better.

>>19293100
Literally just an abridged version of the book without any of the important scenes that flesh out Bateman's real character.

>>19293100
>No Tom Cruise elevator scene
Nah

>>19291475
filtered. tarkovsky is transcendental

>>19290032
Redpilling film

>>19291459
maybe for some hollywood shit but you have to be a real philistine to not see how different of an art form film is and how it appeals to an entirely different sense of experience than literature. you won't ever read a book that accomplishes what a Bela Tarr film does, even the source material.

>>19289337
Cinema is the lowest form of art.

>>19294943
Bela Tarr is worthless. Yes, 3 hours of a couple eating potatoes then death, so raw and profound. Wow! The peak of cinema is filmed theater and book adaptions, like Death in Venice or Duchess of Langeais.

>>19289459
absolutely based as fuck too. he turned eyes wide shut into a kino film about elites from the jewish degeneracy shitshow it originally was

>>19293100
I thought the book couldn't possibly beat the movie until I read the book. Actually the movie is essentially just an abridged version of the book as the other anon says, everything that is said in the movie is also said in the book, but the book has a lot more kino stuff

That being said it was adapted near perfectly

>>19295020
nouvelle vague is some of the most insufferable type of cinema ever. new wave is insufferable in both cinema and music. and I'm sorry if you're not able to enjoy experiential cinema. the turin horse provides a better refutation of Nietzsche then a thousand pages of whoever.

>>19295123
Neither are New-Wave.

It doesn't even attempt to refute Nietzsche. What? It's an emotional hypothetical at best. What about 'Nietzsche' did it refute?

>>19289337
The movies aren't great, but the books are worse.

>>19290041
>>19293020
this desu

>>19295258
not that guy but the entire film is prefaced by a description of the turin horse incident where the vitality worshipping life affirming Nietzsche goes insane after seeing the unnecessary suffering of a horse. the film then rebuts his zealous life affirming philosophy by withering life down to its elements and showing the meaninglessness of suffering and survival

Blade runner

>>19290017
Its actually pretty good, it got bad ratings but I enjoyed the fuck out of it.

The movie actually cut a lot of kino, but it was a lot more heartfelt.

>>19293100
Let's see paul Allen's pick

>>19291644
Nah, the irishman book is better, in the movie frank acts like a retarded.

>>19295904
Nietzsche wasn't some obtuse Christian who thought life was good in itself and one always has reason to be happy in Providence.

Tarr isn't criticizing anything, and is just a dangerous ugly man with naive one-sided suppositions.

>>19296555
Truth. Book was short but felt a lot longer; I misplaced it somewhere with only around 10 pages left but didn't bother looking for it (DNF).

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>>19295043
The book was redundant mediocrity, the film covered everything the book was trying to get across in a more succinct and entertaining way. It even favored B.E.E's retroactively decided "correct interpretation" of Bateman's mistaken identity over the ambiguity of the novel.

>>19296965
The novel made it plenty clear that Bateman was delusional, the movie on the other hand created a whole swarm of tards that believed he actually was a serial killer and led to the creation of American Psycho 2.
The movie also left out the most important parts of the book in regards to Bateman's frustrations and the source of his confusion: his family. The chapters with his brother and mother are very important. The date with Jean was also a really key scene in the book where you get a glimpse into how he really feels/responds to other people, left out of the movie though.
Admit it, you got filtered by the first chapter where he goes on about pop music, didn't you?

>>19294944
I believe that that would be sketch comedy.

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>>19297946
Author said so too.

>>19289337
Filtered

>>19293100
checked

EVERY movie is better than the book psueds.

>>19294944
Goddamn your cringey and insufferable

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>>19290493
>>19291109
A Clockwork Orange is so similar to the book (besides chapter 21 ofc) that I’d say reading/watching gives you the exact same experience. Unlike say The Shining where the movie is substantially better or Lolita where the book is substantially better, A Clockwork Orange is basically the same.

Any Eric Rohmer movie, especially:

1967 The Collector
1969 My Night at Maud's
1993 The Tree, The Mayor, and the Mediatheque
1996 A Tale of Summer

"John dies at the end" The movie is soooo much better than the book, it takes everything interesting in the book and makes it better and removes all the repetitive BS. No wonder the author became a soiboy journalist for wired

>>19299702
I thought the movie sucked and almost checked out the book to see if it was any better. Thanks.

>>19289425
except 2001

>>19291644
i still dont understand the point of this movie and book
>wow gangsters good

>>19293100
it has a lot of flaws and feels forces at times

>>19300391
It's just a good story. It's kind of a reverse hero's journey, with the protagonist going from war hero to mafia chieftain.

An interesting theme in the movie - although I don't think the film really has anything particularly profound to say on the subject - is the idea of old world tribalism vs. newfangled American civil justice. The theme is most clearly displayed in the opening scene: "I believe in America."

>>19297947
I wonder what PKD would’ve thought of Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly.

>>19300428
Probably would have liked it a lot in all honesty, it's a very depressing film though. Not my favorite Linklater at all, but it's certainly good.

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>>19289353
Why the fuck does every director refuse to cast chubby or fat actors for female roles clearly described as chubby or fat?
Molly used to be chubby in her youth, but she's at least on the verge of becoming fat recently. Same with Anna Karenina: Tolstoi based the whole fucking book on the idea of writting something about a beautiful big lady after he met Puschkin's corpulent granddaughter at a party. And guess what? In every fucking screen adaption Anna's thin as fuck.

>>19290585
Milland Wyman? Aren't stage names supposed to be catchy and pleasant on the ear? And Ray Jane is so feminine for a leading man. No wonder these people never made it big.

>>19292760
MEGA FAGGOT

>>19290041
Jodo is an unrepentant, self-admitted pseud and charlatan, and that's what makes him based

>>19289337
King is a creepy hack but this shit is fantastic.

>>19300350
Painfully wrong.

>>19302321
Because almost no one wants to look at that.

>>19289337
No Country for Old Men
Book was mediocre while the movie was a masterpiece

>>19303336
Completely agree. The movie was 95% similar to the book, with one scene differing (Moss comes across a teenage hitchhiker in the book, doesn't do anything with her but when both are killed his wife assumes he was cheating on her whereas in the movie he walks past the woman in the pool)
Perhaps it was because I only read the book after I watched the movie, but the tension wasn't really there. I also believe Javier Bardem was one of the best casting for a book character in film history

>>19289337
Just wanted to give a shout out to Sometimes A Great Notion by Kesey. An underrated gem

>>19293850
Correct

>>19302664
Act 3 fell apart imo

>>19303356
That's your lucky quarter.