Discussion: Book or Film?
Submitted by 1922 on Thu, 11/04/2004 - 09:19
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All Quiet on the Western Front
- Book (Erich Maria Remarque): 0.5
- Film (Lewis Milestone): 0.5
Animal Farm (suggested by russa03)
- Book (George Orwell): 1
- Film (Joy Batchelor, John Halas): 0
Catch-22 (suggested by russa03)
- Book (Joseph Heller): 1
- Film (Mike Nichols): 0
Christine
- Book (Stephen King): 1
- Film (John Carpenter): 0
The Comedians
- Book (Graham Greene): 1
- Film (Peter Glenville): 0
East of Eden
- Book (John Steinbeck): 0.5
- Film (Elia Kazan): 0.5
Educating Rita
- Book (William Russell): 1
- Film (Lewis Gilbert): 0
The Grapes of Wrath
- Book (John Steinbeck): 1
- Film (John Ford): 0
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (suggested by russa03)
- Book (Douglas Adams): 1
- Film (Garth Jennings): 0
Lolita (suggested by russa03)
- Book (Vladimir Nabokov): 1
- Film (Stanley Kubrick): 0
The Lord of the Rings
- Books (J.R.R. Tolkien): 0.5
- Films (Peter Jackson): 0.5
Misery
- Book (Stephen King): 1
- Film (Rob Reiner): 0
Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran
- Book (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt): 0.5
- Film (François Dupeyron): 0.5
Pet Sematary
- Book (Stephen King): 1
- Film: 0
The Shining
- Book (Stephen King): 1
- Film (Stanley Kubrick): 1
Trainspotting (suggested by russa03)
- Book (Irvine Walsh): 0
- Film (Danny Boyle): 1
Author Comments:
The 'Rules':
- If you think the book is better than the adaptation for the big screen, then you give 1 point to the book.
- If you think the film is better than the literary work, you give 1 point to the film.
- If book and film are both equal or both good in their own way, you give 0.5 points to each of them.
- Of course, you can suggest books and films.
The Shinning - film (Stanley Kubrick)
can i suggest:
Catch-22 - book (Joseph Heller)
Lolita - book (Vladimir Nabokov)
Animal Farm - book (George Orwell)
Trainspotting - film (Danny Boyle)
Could i suggest Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'll go with the book over the film.
Book (Douglas Adams)
Film (Garth Jennings)
While I dearly love the books, I'd have to say that each form of HHGtG has had its own charms. I heard the Tertiary Phase of the radio play when it aired on BBC radio last year, and there was a part in it that smoked the book in terms of comic value. The scene in which whathisname accidentally caused himself to be immortal, in an incident involving an elastic band, simply didn't have the same impact on the written page. I laughed uncontrollably when I heard the radio version. Also, in the film, the bit when Ford and Zaphod first see each other after so long and start an elaborate little foot-tapping thing which carries on in the background of an Arthur/Trillian conversation - you just don't get that from the radio version or the books.
I really disliked the film. Apart from one scene the whole thing wasn't funny or interesting.
Difference of opinion, I guess. Each to his own.
Fight Club is the second one where i liked both the book and film. I'll say the book is better than the film though.
Film (David Fincher)
Book (Chuck Palahniuk)