[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 150 KB, 640x946, atonement.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2588452 No.2588452 [Reply] [Original]

What is your favourite book to movie adaptations?

>> No.2588474
File: 382 KB, 717x1020, 1312092199-36..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2588474

>> No.2588471

One flew over the cuckoos nest

>> No.2588490

Movies that surpass their literary counterparts? The Godfather, No Country For Old Men, Ben-Hur, and much more

>> No.2588504

Pride and Prejudice

>> No.2588507

There will be Blood, the book sucks, and it's about commie faggotry. The movie is about hardcore underdog rutless manliness.

>> No.2588529

Never Let Me Go

>> No.2588548

The Thin Red Line

>> No.2588923

Clockwork Orange

>> No.2588938

Fight Club, say what you will, it's a very good film.

>> No.2588951

No Country for Old Men. A Clockwork Orange. I thought One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was a very creative adaptation as well, and not in the bad way.

inb4 Harry Potter

>> No.2588960

Anyone think the On The Road adaption will be good?

>> No.2588965
File: 30 KB, 400x250, cleardanger.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2588965

Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.

>> No.2588966

the shining was better than the book imo

>> No.2588969

>>2588966
Way better.

>> No.2588970

>>2588965
The Hunt for Red October while we're at it.

>> No.2588971

*cough*Blade Runner*cough*

>> No.2588974

>>2588971
The atmosphere of that movie is still amazing but everything else is horribly dated.

>> No.2588976

"Jaws" is a truly dreadful book, and a damn good movie. Same goes for "Silence of the Lambs."

>> No.2588978

Youth in Revolt....and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

>> No.2588986

>>2588978
Underaged ban coming your way.

>> No.2588991

I'm 22 xDDD

>> No.2589011

>>2588991

>mad that he's old and useless

>> No.2589013

The Ten Commandments

>> No.2589022

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

>> No.2589075

>>2589013
Yeah The Ten was hilarious XD excellent hilarity

>> No.2589119

>>2588938

I second this.

>> No.2589139

remains of the day. Loved that one.

I also need to watch Never let me go, but I read that book just a few days ago and I'm still a bit shaken up about it. Quite depressing work.

>> No.2589166
File: 14 KB, 200x302, 200px-Hunger_games.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2589166

And there's nothing you can do to stop me.

>> No.2589172

>>2589166

The movie is actually good.

>> No.2589180

2001: A Space Odyssey

>> No.2589189

>>2589172
The romance should have been subtler. But other than that, it was really good. Particularly the last words of the last youth to die.

>> No.2589195

Fight Club and Forest Gump. Forest Gump is far superior in quality, but Fight Club is far more affecting (at least the first time).

>> No.2589405

>2589195
Forest Gump is sentimental.

>> No.2589417

bladerunner

>> No.2589448

Children of Men, A Clockwork Orange

>> No.2590000

>>2589448
it should have been me who said children of men. guess ill just say jurassic park then

>> No.2590963

What about good movies based on good books?

>> No.2590978

Funeral Parade of Roses

>> No.2590986

>>2589417
this.

pkd has a knack for making great source material for movies.

>> No.2591008
File: 1.49 MB, 300x199, 1309792756175.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2591008

- Jurassic Park
- Children of Men
- Lord of the Rings (lets be honest, you could barely make it all way through the book)
- Fight Club
- The Princess Bride
- The Devil wears Prada
- How the Grinch stole Christmas
- No Country for Old Men
- The Blind Side
- Shawshank Redemption

girl/lit/fag here.

>> No.2591029
File: 9 KB, 247x204, kulståry.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2591029

The Boys from Brazil.
Mediocre book - good film, much like Rosemary's Baby, but that might just be 'cause I just can't get a kick out of horror novels.

>> No.2591062

Double Indemnity
the postman always rings twice
the big sleep
The Maltese Falcon

>> No.2591068

The Exorcist...which I actually read before seeing the movie, both of which happened in the 70's, when things were a different kind of scary.

Also Altered States, by Paddy Chayefsky.

>> No.2591070
File: 212 KB, 800x450, capote.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2591070

>> No.2591280

Lord of the Rings

>> No.2591354

>>2588966
everything kubrick made was better than its book

except lolita of course, but it's impossible to make that book a better film

>> No.2591360

Shawschenk Redemption

That film is a masterpiece.

>> No.2591368

>>2591360
>Shawschenk Redemption

Die.

>> No.2593436

Master and Commander