movie adaptation that exceeds the original?

[Anonymous No.20908522]

Pic related; for me it's Drive My Car, based on the Haruki Murakami short story. The movie is a three hour adaptation of an, i think, nine page short story and it's amazing from beginning to end, literally blowing the original out of the water.

If only the Norwegian Wood adaptation was as good as that.

[Anonymous No.20908534]

Burning, another Murakami adaptation. Pretty much a masterpiece.

[Anonymous No.20908567]

>>20908522
>>20908534
What's the appeal? The main character gets cucked in both

[Anonymous No.20908590]

I actually enjoyed Heart of Darkness but imho pic related is on a whole other level

[Anonymous No.20908597]

>>20908522
I watched this last weekend. I think its great but it Takatsuki killing the guy was just strange to me. Was that pulled from a Murakami story not in Men Without Women? And in my edition Drive My Car is 37 pages. I wouldn't say it blows Men Without Women Out of the water, but it's a great film. It's certainly easier to make adaptations which exceed the original when you're working with a short story. Kafuku's wife sexy stories and Takatsuki expanding on them were a superb innovation.

[Anonymous No.20908603]

The Godfather novel is good but the movie is much better and adapts the best parts.

>>20908522
I thought Murakami was for teen girls and cuck men

[Anonymous No.20908621]

>>20908534
This is one of my favourite movies of the past decade, I've watched it maybe 8-9 times now. I had no idea it was an adaptation, I've never seen anything else by the director, hell, it's the only Korean movie I've seen besides Parasite. There's just something about it that captivates me to no end, I get hyper-focused on it like some autistic kid watching the weather report. I love this movie.

[Anonymous No.20908624]

>>20908522
Drive My Car is a combination of several short stories and it's also utter shit.

[Anonymous No.20908629]

>>20908603
>I thought Murakami was for teen girls and cuck men

Oh boy you've been missing out kek

[Anonymous No.20908639]

Not strictly an adaptation but the 2001 A Space Odyssey film is much better than the book.

The Shining, Blade Runner, Silence of the Lambs, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Finchers Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

It's debatable but i'd say No Country For Old Men as well.

[Anonymous No.20908641]

The original Rear Window short story was quite barebones, only carried by the premise. The Hitchcock movie threw out most of the short story and made it work a lot better.

[Anonymous No.20908662]

Every adaptation from Steven king

[Anonymous No.20908686]

>>20908639
Blade Runner is barely even an adaptation of Do Androids Dream to be honest, and the improvements are so vast that its not even funny. Androids really only needed to be about one paragraph long - the scene where the girl rips the legs off the spider - but Blade Runner actually uses its characters and world to tell a story.

[Anonymous No.20908747]

[Anonymous No.20908759]

>>20908747
No, never.

[Anonymous No.20908816]

>>20908621
I'm on the same page as you, it's absolute top tier filmmaking, so many different ways to view it and every little piece of the movie is filled with so much intent. The director's other films are excellent. He used to be a novelist before becoming a director and you can definitely see that

[Anonymous No.20908831]

>>20908522
>>20908534
Both movies are worse than the original stories. Not being able to see this is probably a sign of not understanding literature on a deeper level.

[Anonymous No.20908965]

>>20908522
Adaptations of schlock which famously elevated it, like Touch of Evil (one of the greats of cinema, underrated) and the Godfather >>20908603, are obvious. I would suggest Brideshead 1981, as it speaks to the melancholy associated with pre-modern England a bit more directly than the novel, but I wouldn't defend this too strongly

[Anonymous No.20908973]

>>20908522
japanese Joseph Gordon Levitt

[Anonymous No.20908985]