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Hi guys,


I need to make a presentation about a book wich also has been made into a movie.

I already have: - Lord of the Rings
- James Bond



That's all

Any other good suggestions?

Thanx,

-Florian


Btw Hp isnt allowd (dunno why)
 
1984, Fight Club, American Psycho, Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy.
 
Ah, i thought it stand for H. P. Lovecraft. Oh, War of the Worlds and Battlefield Earth(purr).
 
G(ordon)-man said:
Ah, i thought it stand for H. P. Lovecraft. Oh, War of the Worlds and Battlefield Earth(purr).
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Well, that's a possibility too. Now we'll just have to wait for the OP's answer to see which one of us was right. This is very exciting.
 
Children of Men
All Quiet on the Western Front
Babette's Feast
Gone with the Wind
The Cider House Rules
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Godfather
Forrest Gump
The Shawshank Redemption
Apocalypse Now (Heart of Darkness)
The English Patient
Jurassic Park
The Notebook
The Andromeda Strain
The Pianist
Das Boot
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Bourne Identity
The Manchurian Candidate
The Wizard of Oz
For Whom the Bell Tolls
In Cold Blood
Kramer vs Kramer
The Postman
Total Recall
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
Minority Report
A Scanner Darkly
Charlotte's Web
Jaws
The War of the Worlds
The Iron Giant
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Exorcist
Master and Commander: Far Side of the World
The Parent Trap
Into the Wild
Dr. Strangelove (Red Alert)
Patriot Games
Clear and Present Danger
The Sum of all Fears
All the King's Men
Angela's Ashes
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
21
Prince Caspian
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Reader
1408
December Boys
The Girl Next Door
The Kite Runner
Zodiac
Casino Royale
Brokeback Mountain
Jarhead
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Man on Fire
Big Fish
Gods and Generals
Matchstick Men
Mystic River
Under the Tuscan Sun
Cheaper by the Dozen
House of Sand and Fog
Gangs of New York
Solaris
We were Soldiers
A Beautiful Mind
Bridget Jone's Diary
K-Pax
The Princess Diaries
Riding in Cars with Boys
Black Hawk Down
Chocolat
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Pay it Forward
The Wonder Boys
All the Pretty Horses
Bicentennial Man
The General's Daughter
The King and I
Jacob the Liar
Stuart Little
The 13th Warrior
Mulan
The Thin Red Line
The Devil's Advocate
Harriet the Spy
A Time to Kill
Jumanji
Once Were Warriors
War of the Buttons
The Client
Pelican Brief
Schindler's List
The Last of the Mohicans
Of Mice and Men
The Silence of the Lambs
 
A Scanner Darkly (and you could definitely talk about the unique style of the film)
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zombieturtle01 said:
1984, Fight Club, American Psycho, Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy.
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ZT forgot to add this, but if you do Hitchhiker's Guide, it is necessary that you spend the entire report focusing on how much of a piece of steaming, rank elephant shit the movie is and how the book is a work of bonafide genius.
 
Ennui said:
ZT forgot to add this, but if you do Hitchhiker's Guide, it is necessary that you spend the entire report focusing on how much of a piece of steaming, rank elephant shit the movie is and how the book is a work of bonafide genius.
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The same goes for The Beach.


I would also recommend High Fidelity.
 
Guys, what? The Beach and Hitchiker's films are both pretty good.

They don't hold candles to their books, but that's okay because we already have the books.
 
You could do hellboy... would be interesting since the movies draw from several different stories each.
 
Sulkdodds said:
Guys, what? The Beach and Hitchiker's films are both pretty good.

They don't hold candles to their books, but that's okay because we already have the books.
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I can't judge the Hitchhiker's Guide since I have only read it, but The Beach was horribly adapted for the big screen. Some of the key parts of the book were diametrically changed. Now I don't mind a director taking his own path. A movie is about two hours long while reading a book takes a little bit longer, so I understand you have to condense, leave certain things out and maybe stray from the core story. But Danny Boyle took much bigger liberties than that. He concentrates almost exclusively on the tension between Richard, Sal and Francoise and the main theme of the book - Richard being haunted by Daffy - is relegated to being a side story. And why does Richard have to shag both of them? He didn't in the book and that made much more sense story-wise. That's just one of my gripes but I have many more. The author himself seems to differ with me though. Alex Garland and Boyle went on and made 28 Days Later together amongst other flics.

Again to the topic starter, watch / read High Fidelity. Best adaption evar in my humble opinion.
 
I, Robot
The Bicentennial Man

- both very much 'adapted' adaptations ;)
 
That's what I expected when I first heard about it. Doesn't seem like the kind of book that would translate to film well at all.
 
This thread should be in two different forums! Neither of them the lounge.
 
Try Brazil instead.

Sulk, I think the Hitchhiker's movie was an unmitigated disaster. It didn't capture much of the delightful genius of the books (although it tried)... it just could have been so much better. The only good things about that movie were Mos Def and Alan Rickman. And Slartibartfast, because his name is so awesome that it transcends its representation.
 
No Country for Old Men

Why hasn't that been mentioned yet?

All the Pretty Horses was also made into a film, although I hear the film was crap.
Blindness was a good (but brutal) book, but the film for that was also supposedly terrible.

More:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Catch-22
Lord of the Flies
Frankenstein (terribly boring novel, never watched any film versions)
Heart of Darkness heavily inspired Apocalypse Now. I don't know if you can call that a book directly turned into a movie though.
 
Wtf dfc05, the novel Frankenstein was a bajillion times better than any of the films, and was an awesome book.
 
dfc05 said:
Heart of Darkness heavily inspired Apocalypse Now. I don't know if you can call that a book directly turned into a movie though.
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I mentioned it, and it's definitely more than inspired, right down to the character names.
 
but at the same time it's very clearly not a movie version of the book
 
Ennui said:
Try Brazil instead.

Sulk, I think the Hitchhiker's movie was an unmitigated disaster. It didn't capture much of the delightful genius of the books (although it tried)... it just could have been so much better. The only good things about that movie were Mos Def and Alan Rickman. And Slartibartfast, because his name is so awesome that it transcends its representation.
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I really enjoyed the film. It did of course differ from the book a great deal, and I think at first I didn't want to let myself like it, but I've taken to it. But then I probably just fancy Zooey Deschanel.

And also I've just realised that I forgot to the bring the books with me, GOD DAMMIT!

But like sulk says we still have the book (Well I don't). I've heard as well that the screen play was something which Douglas Adams worked on himself before he died. Not entirely sure about that though.


Also another suggestion: Wing Commander
 
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