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What is your favorite movie based on a book?

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The Lovely Bones was such sad book, and the movie was exactly like the book...but I think seeing it on the big screen was so sad...

That being said, my absolute favorite movie from a book is Stephen Kings "Misery" So good! It was so much like the book~

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The Godfather.

One of the few times a movie was better than the book.
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The Shawshank Redemption -- Stephen King


The Hunger Games -- Suzanne Collins
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Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
Blade Runner
To Kill a Mockingbird
Last of the Mohicans

Almost forgot one of my favorites...
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Crimson Tide, A Time To Kill, Rainmaker...
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A Time To Kill
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Far From The Madding Crowd (1967 Julie Christie version and not the 2015 version)
To Kill A Mockingbird
Shawshank Redemption
Lord of the Rings
The Last Picture Show
Apocalypse Now: Based on Heart of Darkness
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men

There are so many wonderful novels that have been made into great films. While films give you spectacular visual effects, the novels really portray the story so much better.
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absolute favorites; For Whom the Bell Tolls (Bergman/Cooper)
Shawshank Redemption
Lord of the Rings (quite a feat to pull that one off, and it was flawed, but good overall)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Maltese Falcon
Green Mile
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Empire Of The Sun - JG Ballard (Movie by Speilberg)

King Rat - James Clavell (Movie by Bryan Forbes)

Blade Runner - Philip K Dick (Movie by Ridley Scott)

Jaws - Peter Benchley (Movie by Speilberg)*

Goshawk Squadron - Derek Robinson (Movie by ME!!!) **

xx SF

*There is a GREAT sex Scene in JAWS the novel which they didn't put in the Movie!!!

** Goshawk Squadron has NEVER been filmed... I could direct it... Opening Scene: A butterfly flutters... We close on the fluttering insect... Fade... We open on an SE5A bi-plane... Blipping and FARTING as it makes THE WORST LANDING EVER...)

If you've NEVER read 'Goshawk Squadron' then YOU SHOULD... It's in MY TOP FIVE best novels EVER!!! It made me laugh AND cry... It's BEYOND good!
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Empire Of The Sun - JG Ballard (Movie by Speilberg)

King Rat - James Clavell (Movie by Bryan Forbes)

Blade Runner - Philip K Dick (Movie by Ridley Scott)

Jaws - Peter Benchley (Movie by Speilberg)*

Goshawk Squadron - Derek Robinson (Movie by ME!!!) **

xx SF

*There is a GREAT sex Scene in JAWS the novel which they didn't put in the Movie!!!



I read that sex scene in Jaws from a purloined Cosmo, and I found it profoundly arousing as a young boy. Kept the Cosmo hidden under my bed like a Playboy. Even the ads turned me on.

King Rat is a GREAT book, haven't seen the movie. Empire of the Sun is a GREAT movie, but haven't read the book (J G Ballard is one weird dude, though).

The Hot Rock - great book, great movie.
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The Hot Rock - great book, great movie.


DONALD E WESTLAKE!!!

(Imagine that there are people WHO HAVE NEVER READ HIM!!!)

Did HE write the PARKER books too??? (I THINK he did under a pseudenom??????)

xx SF
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DONALD E WESTLAKE!!!

(Imagine that there are people WHO HAVE NEVER READ HIM!!!)

Did HE write the PARKER books too??? (I THINK he did under a pseudenom??????)

xx SF


Yes. As Richard Stark. Parker is a totally amoral protagonist - he will kill anyone who gets in his way, without remorse. A psychopath. Love those books.
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Mrs. Doubtfire was based on book titled Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine.
Forrest Gump was based on Forrest Gump by Winston Groom.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High was based on Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story by Cameron Crowe.
The Graduate was based on The Graduate by Charles Webb.
Good Fellas was based on Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi.
Ordinary People was based on Ordinary People by Judith Guest.
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John Adams based on David McCullough's book.
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absolute favorites;

To Kill a Mockingbird
Maltese Falcon



and not forgetting:

The Big Sleep

Get Shorty

The English Patient

The Commitments


To name but a few!!
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I have many, many favorite movies that were made from books. But, almost invariably, the books are much better than the movies. They usually have better visual images (created in your mind) that the images on film. The only exception to this that I can remember is the 1959 western "The Wonderful Country" starring Robert Mitchum. I read the book after seeing the movie rather than the other way around, as is usually the case. The book was a normal western novel by Tom Lea and is fairly typical of that genre. But I found the movie (directed by Robert Parrish) much more atmospheric and believable and altogether better-done than the novel and always thought Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill, Pedro Armendariz and the other actors in the cast did an excellent job--Mitchem's role, in my mind, was Oscar-worthy.
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Yes. As Richard Stark. Parker is a totally amoral protagonist - he will kill anyone who gets in his way, without remorse. A psychopath. Love those books.


SEE THAT EVERYONE!!!

You've got SERIOUS Litterati here!!!

xx SF

(Jeff, I LOVE those novels... PARKER is SUCH A CUNT!!!)

He DOES get The Job done, in fairness!!!
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I have three favorite movies based on books :
A Time to Kill
The chamber
Twilight
All were great books .
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SEE THAT EVERYONE!!!

You've got SERIOUS Litterati here!!!

xx SF

(Jeff, I LOVE those novels... PARKER is SUCH A CUNT!!!)

He DOES get The Job done, in fairness!!!


I’m on my third read of the Parker series. It doesn’t matter how many times I read those books, I can always go back to them.

There have been a few movie adaptations of the novels, with by far the best being Point Blank (based on The Hunter).
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The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Jaws (Peter Benchley)

"It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.” Raymond Chandler

Lucia Makes a Bet

Barn Dance

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I’m on my third read of the Parker series. It doesn’t matter how many times I read those books, I can always go back to them.

There have been a few movie adaptations of the novels, with by far the best being Point Blank (based on The Hunter).
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I haven't seen Point Blank. Payback is really good, even if it does have Crazy Mel Gibson in it.
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Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
Blade Runner
To Kill a Mockingbird
Last of the Mohicans

Almost forgot one of my favorites...
Alice


I like those too.
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The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Aurthur C. Clarke)
Get Shorty (Elmore Leonard)
3:10 To Yuma (Elmore Leonard)
Shawshank Redemption (Stephan King)
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I haven't seen Point Blank. Payback is really good, even if it does have Crazy Mel Gibson in it.


I quite like Payback, but if you haven’t seen it I’d recommend Payback: Straight Up – The Director’s Cut.

Apparently, after filming the movie crazy Mel went crazy when he realised that the story was very dark (if only he had noticed when he read the script!), and so reshoots abounded. Basically, the entire last third of the movie is completely different, with the Director’s Cut following the plot of the novel much more closely. There are other small differences too, but it’s that final third that makes it worth watching.
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The Exorcist
Blade Runner
Double Indemnity
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Godfather
Jaws
The Shining
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Of Mice and Men with Gary Sinise
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The Shawshank Redemption by Steven King