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Bo Goldman's adaptation for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is my personal favorite. Stellar book, stellar movie.
Jaws. See my review of the book. I touch on the same points about adaptations but not in so much depth. Great review!
Michael wrote: "Bo Goldman's adaptation for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is my personal favorite. Stellar book, stellar movie."
Wow, Michael, I've seen the movie maybe twenty years ago - it was brilliant and Jack Nicholson owned it! I have to make a plan to watch it again some time. If I can remember correctly, a very young Jason Alexander was also in the movie...
I've just added it to my Amazon wish list!
I don't know if you've seen the movie THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG - I stumbled across it one day when it was starting and - I wish I could give a more profound or deeper reason, but I'm just a sucker for beautiful eyes - watched it because of Jennifer Connolly...or started to, anyway. What a brilliant movie it turned out to be, with a brilliant performance by Ben Kingsley! I bought the book and it was a brilliant book by Andre Dubus III... and I would never have read it if it wasn't for the movie.
Nick wrote: "Jaws. See my review of the book. I touch on the same points about adaptations but not in so much depth. Great review!"
Saw your review Nick - and I hang my head in shame because I've always thought it was an original screenplay. I don't know if I would want to read the novel, though. The movie is just too deeply ingrained in my brain. Spielberg is brilliant, and I've read a lot about the making of the movie and all the things that went wrong - from being grossly over-budget, the weather not playing along, the mechanical shark giving so much trouble...even Richard Dreyfuss complaining that it was his worst movie and was bound to be a disaster.
Ironically, I have a sister who is more than 10 years younger than me. I saw the movie before I was 10 years old, and she saw it when she was in high school. Afterward, she told me that she didn't get the hype, she couldn't believe people would be scared because the shark looked so fake.
Sigh, what can you do?
House of Sand and Fog is brilliant. The performances in that movie are fantastic.
I might also add William Peter Blatty's adaptation of The Exorcist to this list. He also wrote the novel, of course. Visceral evil all the way around.
Michael wrote: "House of Sand and Fog is brilliant. The performances in that movie are fantastic.
I might also add William Peter Blatty's adaptation of The Exorcist to this list. He also wrote the novel, of cours..."
Never read THE EXORCIST - saw the movie a few times.
Thanks for the reply Michael.
silence of the lambs. I saw the movie first but after reading the book, I think they did an excellent job on the movie.
Hi Buddhagan,
yes, the majority of thriller fans feel that SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is probably the best book-to-screen adaptation, and I am one of them. It set the bar for all thriller movies after it very high. Of course, I also feel that Anthony Hopkins owned the role of Dr. Hannibal Lector - it is one of the best performances ever and he became the quintessential bad guy. His performance was so superior that I couldn't watch the TV series past the second episode because that Dr Lector lacked the charm to make the character work for me.
I liked that the tv Hannibal didn't try to be the movie Hannibal. I can't really compare the two. TVH was classy and creepy where MVH was just creepy. I like them both.
Buddhagan wrote: "I liked that the tv Hannibal didn't try to be the movie Hannibal. I can't really compare the two. TVH was classy and creepy where MVH was just creepy. I like them both."
I think that was exactly the right attitude to approach it with, but I couldn't manage to distance it.
Thanks for your reply.
Great review, Mort! USUALLY the book is better than the movie. Shawshank the movie blows the novella away, IMO! Others I thought the film was better than the book:
JAWS
COOL HAND LUKE
THE SHOOTIST
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
J.K. wrote: "Great review, Mort! USUALLY the book is better than the movie. Shawshank the movie blows the novella away, IMO! Others I thought the film was better than the book:
JAWS
COOL HAND LUKE
THE SHOOTIST..."
Thanks J.K. -
I checked out your reviews and I must admit that I haven't read any of them.
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Jaws. See my review of the book. I touch on the same points about adaptations but not in so much depth. Great review!
Michael wrote: "Bo Goldman's adaptation for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is my personal favorite. Stellar book, stellar movie."Wow, Michael, I've seen the movie maybe twenty years ago - it was brilliant and Jack Nicholson owned it! I have to make a plan to watch it again some time. If I can remember correctly, a very young Jason Alexander was also in the movie...
I've just added it to my Amazon wish list!
I don't know if you've seen the movie THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG - I stumbled across it one day when it was starting and - I wish I could give a more profound or deeper reason, but I'm just a sucker for beautiful eyes - watched it because of Jennifer Connolly...or started to, anyway. What a brilliant movie it turned out to be, with a brilliant performance by Ben Kingsley! I bought the book and it was a brilliant book by Andre Dubus III... and I would never have read it if it wasn't for the movie.
Nick wrote: "Jaws. See my review of the book. I touch on the same points about adaptations but not in so much depth. Great review!"Saw your review Nick - and I hang my head in shame because I've always thought it was an original screenplay. I don't know if I would want to read the novel, though. The movie is just too deeply ingrained in my brain. Spielberg is brilliant, and I've read a lot about the making of the movie and all the things that went wrong - from being grossly over-budget, the weather not playing along, the mechanical shark giving so much trouble...even Richard Dreyfuss complaining that it was his worst movie and was bound to be a disaster.
Ironically, I have a sister who is more than 10 years younger than me. I saw the movie before I was 10 years old, and she saw it when she was in high school. Afterward, she told me that she didn't get the hype, she couldn't believe people would be scared because the shark looked so fake.
Sigh, what can you do?
House of Sand and Fog is brilliant. The performances in that movie are fantastic.I might also add William Peter Blatty's adaptation of The Exorcist to this list. He also wrote the novel, of course. Visceral evil all the way around.
Michael wrote: "House of Sand and Fog is brilliant. The performances in that movie are fantastic.I might also add William Peter Blatty's adaptation of The Exorcist to this list. He also wrote the novel, of cours..."
Never read THE EXORCIST - saw the movie a few times.
Thanks for the reply Michael.
silence of the lambs. I saw the movie first but after reading the book, I think they did an excellent job on the movie.
Hi Buddhagan,yes, the majority of thriller fans feel that SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is probably the best book-to-screen adaptation, and I am one of them. It set the bar for all thriller movies after it very high. Of course, I also feel that Anthony Hopkins owned the role of Dr. Hannibal Lector - it is one of the best performances ever and he became the quintessential bad guy. His performance was so superior that I couldn't watch the TV series past the second episode because that Dr Lector lacked the charm to make the character work for me.
I liked that the tv Hannibal didn't try to be the movie Hannibal. I can't really compare the two. TVH was classy and creepy where MVH was just creepy. I like them both.
Buddhagan wrote: "I liked that the tv Hannibal didn't try to be the movie Hannibal. I can't really compare the two. TVH was classy and creepy where MVH was just creepy. I like them both."I think that was exactly the right attitude to approach it with, but I couldn't manage to distance it.
Thanks for your reply.
Great review, Mort! USUALLY the book is better than the movie. Shawshank the movie blows the novella away, IMO! Others I thought the film was better than the book:JAWS
COOL HAND LUKE
THE SHOOTIST
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
J.K. wrote: "Great review, Mort! USUALLY the book is better than the movie. Shawshank the movie blows the novella away, IMO! Others I thought the film was better than the book:JAWS
COOL HAND LUKE
THE SHOOTIST..."
Thanks J.K. -
I checked out your reviews and I must admit that I haven't read any of them.
