07-14-2018, 12:43 PM | #46 |
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Ooooo, I get to rant about The Bridges of Madison County! I saw Oprah interview the author after it hit the bestseller list, and he admitted the photographer was based on himself, but Francesca was not based on his wife. Okay. Then I picked up the book and read it, and Waller went on and on in the book about how the photographer was a god and a shaman and just the greatest thing since sliced bread, and it felt like he wrote a love letter to himself. By the time I finished I hated that book with the fire of a thousand burning suns. The movie, on the other hand, had none of that, so I actually enjoyed it.
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07-16-2018, 05:04 AM | #47 |
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In general, I don't care for movies that were made from a book. Usually, a movie format is simply too short to capture the book (children's books are better for the format, as they tend to be shorter). There are exceptions, most often these exceptions were made where the original writer was still available (like the Harry Potter movies).
I prefer a book turned into a (mini)series. You have more time to capture the book. I loved the BBC mini series of Pride and Prejudice and I really like Outlander. One of my favourites still is Shogun though... |
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07-16-2018, 07:27 AM | #48 |
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for me while i do love at times seeing a film based off a book. it really depends on the casting. the director and the #1 thing the writer, if the director or writer or both if the director also wrote it is really in love with the story and cares enough to want it to be good than we get a Shawshank Redemption or a Green Mile, Stand By Me. 3 films that really follow the stories they are based of off. than you have
the Harry Potter films where the first 2 films are pretty faithful to the books. but it also helped that those books are really short compared to the later books. i do love Mini-series as well.. the book i'm reading now it's going to i think the big screen to take a guess 5 year from now. but on how long it is 702 pages with authors note included. it has to be 2 things like around 180 minutes long or 150 about or around there or a really long Mini-series like The Stand was. though to be fair that's a longer book too. |
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Hitchcock's The Birds is more fun than the du Maurier short story but the clever idea belonged to Daphne.
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honestly i have never read the book or any of her books but i've always thought the birds was one of Hitch's lesser movies. he's got worse films though The Skin Game for example is pretty bad.
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Incidentally, earlier this year I read Du Maurier's The Birds and liked it quite a bit. Like The Shining, Hitchcock's movie had almost no relation to the original story. But I enjoyed both the story and the film.
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It's been a long time since I read it, but I remember it as being definitely worth reading. Schindler's List (the movie) and Pan's Labyrinth are example of movies that I thought were exceptional movies, but movies that I would only see once, simply because I found myself so depressed after seeing them. The book didn't effect me the same way.
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It depends on the message you want to take from it. Is Spielberg emotionally invested and qualified to do that? Yes, absolutely. And he put it off for quite a while, because he didn't think he would be able to make the movie good enough. The way history is taught in the USA is a little bit different than in Germany. The majority of Germans were / are decent people, even the soldiers. How did they not see it coming? That is easy to say in hindsight after you have the facts from both sides. If you hear often enough that they are out to get you, eventually you become paranoid.
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The book Schindler’s Ark was written by the Australian author Thomas Keneally. He met one of the people Schindler saved, who told him the story.
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