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ITT: Good book adaptations.

Pic related.

>> No.1485774

Which is itself a film adaptation. I have yet to see it but really am looking forward to it.

>> No.1485782

>>1485774
The book was written first.

>> No.1485783

>>1485782
Well, of course.

>> No.1485791
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1485791

Film was better than the book

>> No.1485792

Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
No Country for Old Men

>> No.1485825

>>1485791
love that film

also, fight club

>> No.1485833

Troy.

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>> No.1486058

Lord of the Rings.

>> No.1486067

>>1485846

That game was shit.

>> No.1486070

Fight Club and American Psycho.

>> No.1486077

>>1486070
Both shit flicks.

>> No.1486078

>>1486067

So was the book.

>> No.1486082

I hear The Princess Bride movie is even better than the book. Is that true?

>> No.1486101

>>1486082
I think they're both really good. The casting for the movie was very well-done. And there isn't too much in the book that they had to skip over in the movie (although I'd have really liked to see Prince Humperdink's zoo of dangerous animals). But I also really enjoyed the book, it was even a bit more witty at times than the movie. Overall, I can see how some people would think if you've seen the movie, there's no need to read the book, they are similar enough. But I wouldn't say the movie is actually better, just that they did a good job with it

>> No.1486106

>>1486101

I guess it helps that the author of the book is also the screenwriter of the movie.

>> No.1486186

>>1486106
False. The movie is by the editor of the book's English language abridgement.

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>>1486186
>mfw

>> No.1486230

>>1486186

Right. Damn, the abridged version sucks so fucking much compared to the Florinese original.

>> No.1486274

>>1486230
It does. The context of the original was taken out entirely.
I lived overseas as a teacher in what used to be Florin, before the Soviet occupation, and was shocked and delighted to find the original.
It's a lot bawdier and a good deal more political than Goldman's watered-down bastardization.

>> No.1486363

>>1486274
It's truly a shame how rare the original is. I know they were mostly burned under Stalin, but still We know a few survived. A unabridged translation would be a moneymaker. Penguin isn't that smart I guess.