Would a Call of the Crocodile adaptation even be possible? Both Stephen King and JK Rowling are actual characters in it. So, I have no idea how that would work for a film. They get kidnapped by a Satanic cult and a shota has to save them. It’s ridiculous
Gardner, I want you to know that if I ever read CotC, it will be for the sole purpose of spoiling the entire book whenever anyone brings it up for any reason. I hate you.
Good film adaptations are rarely from good books because what works in a medium doesn't in the other.
The Godfather is airport literature but made a great movie screenplay. Meanwhile almost no classics has a great movie adaptation. Arguably Lord of the Rings if that counts as classic. And of course Jason and the Argonauts.
Amazing films are commonly adapted from middling novels, but amazing novels are never surpassed by adaptations. e-boita by Kubrick is a great film but the novel is an all-time classic. The rest of his films were adapted from mediocre books.
I would argue less that the film is a better adaptation of the book than that the film is one of the best adaptations of a book ever made. Dialogue, tone, everything about the film uncannily captures the novel (except Chigurh's physical description, IIRC). Doesn't hurt that the novel is basically written as a screenplay also.
Agreed. I think Bell is a much more layered character and actually relevant in the novel while in the movie Chigurh has more presence. Love them both regardless.
Agree with this one. Krasznahorkai is a hack but Tarr's films are insanely good. I'd say perhaps The Turin Horse is even better, but Satantango is definitely the most memorable.
>What adaptation is better than the original book in your opinion?
Total Recall
Omega Man
Goldfinger
The Running Man
The Hollow Man (at least when it comes to portraying the monstrous side of the invisible man)
I'm sure there are others of course but these are the ones that come to mind
It's never better. Screen adaptations are soulless and evil. The fucking arrogance to think that you can take someone's well words in a book and reduce it to dogshit is insulting.
Ready Player One
By far the worst book I've ever read (I don't deliberately look forward to read bad books), but the movie is quite nice (although silly)
Would a Call of the Crocodile adaptation even be possible? Both Stephen King and JK Rowling are actual characters in it. So, I have no idea how that would work for a film. They get kidnapped by a Satanic cult and a shota has to save them. It’s ridiculous
shut the fuck up you stupid n-word
That’s not even the main reason why CotC would be unfilmable. The meta twist is.
>That’s not even the main reason why CotC would be unfilmable. The meta twist is.
The desired effect could be achieved if tinglers were installed under each seat.
Gardner, I want you to know that if I ever read CotC, it will be for the sole purpose of spoiling the entire book whenever anyone brings it up for any reason. I hate you.
That sounds kino as fuck
Requiem for a Dream
Arguably American Psycho
American Psycho isn't even the best book in Ellis' world.
Yes it is baka
>Arguably
I take it you haven't read either.
Good film adaptations are rarely from good books because what works in a medium doesn't in the other.
The Godfather is airport literature but made a great movie screenplay. Meanwhile almost no classics has a great movie adaptation. Arguably Lord of the Rings if that counts as classic. And of course Jason and the Argonauts.
lol the novel the Godfather is much better than the movie.
I have never heard it mentioned as the greatest novel ever, so…
Greatest movie ever is a pretty low bar
Amazing films are commonly adapted from middling novels, but amazing novels are never surpassed by adaptations. e-boita by Kubrick is a great film but the novel is an all-time classic. The rest of his films were adapted from mediocre books.
for people who complain so much about cliches, you literary fiction types sure like referring to airports so often that it makes my eyes roll
I like both a lot but they're so different in this case I wouldn't even position them as a choice.
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
No Country for Old Men (in some ways at least)
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>No Country for Old Men (in some ways at least)
I would argue less that the film is a better adaptation of the book than that the film is one of the best adaptations of a book ever made. Dialogue, tone, everything about the film uncannily captures the novel (except Chigurh's physical description, IIRC). Doesn't hurt that the novel is basically written as a screenplay also.
Agreed. I think Bell is a much more layered character and actually relevant in the novel while in the movie Chigurh has more presence. Love them both regardless.
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pic related is the greatest book to film adaptation I can think of.
>8 hours long
no thanks
believe it or not, it's worth every second. i'm yet to read the book so i can't comment on film vs. book though.
I've seen the film and rather enjoyed it.
Is the book still worth reading?
Agree with this one. Krasznahorkai is a hack but Tarr's films are insanely good. I'd say perhaps The Turin Horse is even better, but Satantango is definitely the most memorable.
>What adaptation is better than the original book
Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption
Requiem for a Dream
Arguably American Psycho
Stephen King himself believed the movie adaptation of "The Mist" was better than the original story.
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>better than the original book in your opinion?
i'm thinking of ending things is better than I'm Thinking of Ending Things.
The Godfather
Barry Lyndon
Lord of the Rings
No Country for Old Men
Starship Troopers
orson welles' othello
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>What adaptation is better than the original book in your opinion?
Total Recall
Omega Man
Goldfinger
The Running Man
The Hollow Man (at least when it comes to portraying the monstrous side of the invisible man)
I'm sure there are others of course but these are the ones that come to mind
Pleb tier but the film version of Gone Girl is like taking a piece of runny shit and making it into a garden gnomeel. Fuck that horribly written book
Didn't read the book but I thought the film was garbage.
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picrel
the movie is better because it's shorter
Unironically season one of Game of Thrones.
Think I remember Chuck himself saying the Fight Club movie was better than his book.
For me they are just as good.
Unironically season one of Game of Thrones.
None. The book is with one exception always better than the movie. Only a troglodyte would think otherwise.
Pretty much every Kubrik film except for e-boita, and even then it was still a pretty good adaptation.
It's never better. Screen adaptations are soulless and evil. The fucking arrogance to think that you can take someone's well words in a book and reduce it to dogshit is insulting.
the shining book was pretty bad imo. movie was kino tho
Fight Club
Paths of Glory
One flew over the cuckoo's nest, the single greatest movie of all time
>harry potter series
obvious, but
>the shawshank redemption
Perfect Blue.
Ready Player One
By far the worst book I've ever read (I don't deliberately look forward to read bad books), but the movie is quite nice (although silly)
Really? I read the first five sentences, seemed kinda interesting
I hated the movie so much I couldn't finish it, now I'm curious how bad the book must be
Jaws. The book has them return to shore every night, ruining the tension from hunting the shark