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Open Thread: From Page to Screen

Posted By IceCreamPlanet on September 12, 2014 in Short Articles | 48 Responses

The book to film adaptation is a curious process. What can be so invigorating and exciting on the page can become turgid or lifeless on the screen. On some occasions, a film adaptation can actually improve the original book by giving it the editing it so desperately needs.

So, hallucinatory readers, what are some of your favorite or most hated book-to-film adaptations that you seen?

Some favorites of mine:

*The Wings of the Dove: Novel by Henry James, adapted by Hossein Amini

*City of God: Novel by Paulo Lins, adapted by Bráulio Mantovani

*The Servant: Novel by Robert Maugham, adapted by Harold Pinter

*Belle de Jour: Novel by Joseph Kessel, adapted by Luis Buñuel

*Trainspotting: Novel by Irvine Welsh, adapted by John Hodge

*Confessions: Novel by Kanae Minato, adapted by Tetsuya Nakashima

*The Birds: Short Story by Daphne Du Maurier, adapted by Evan Hunter

*Frenzy: Based on the novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern, adapted by Anthony Shaffer.

*Let the Right One In: Adapted by John Ajvide Lindqvist from his own novel.

*Leaving Las Vegas: Novel by John O’Brien, adapted by Mike Figgis

 

These are only few. So, readers, what are yours?

Posted in Short Articles | Tagged Adaptations, books, film, Open Thread

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IceCreamPlanet

Ice Cream Planet, a TV-licking bisexual ice cream cone, is a recent graduate of Lewis & Clark College. His goal is to move to the UK, and his dream job is to work for Channel 4.

His favorite frozen dessert is espresso gelato with stripes of salted caramel.

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