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The book vs the movie
The old saying about the book being better than the movie is pretty much correct in all cases - except one. Watch "The Man Who Would be King" (Sean Connery and Michael Cane) and then read the Rudyard Kipling story. The original Kipling story is nowhere near as good a story as the movie screenplay. Jonh Huston did a bangup job on the screenplay, fleshing out Kipling's story quite a bit.
OTOH, watching the Brother Cadfael TV series and the Miss Marple TV series years ago prompted me to read the books, which fit the pattern and were better than the videos. Not that the videos were bad.
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