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What is your favourite movie with books in them?
Luís
Jun 28, 2015 09:10AM
I'm always very excited when movies feature books in them. I love Matilda and Liberal Arts, and I like The Book Thief, mostly because of the books.
One director who always does this is Wes Anderson. This video has almost every book in his movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUMFV...
What are your favourite movies with books?
One director who always does this is Wes Anderson. This video has almost every book in his movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUMFV...
What are your favourite movies with books?
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Finding Forrester, with Sean Connery, begins with a scan of Jamal's stack of books. Forrester's dining table is stacked with books, and his walls are lined with bookcases. When the camera scans them, titles are shown that are the same as Jamal's--authors such as Kesey, Kierkegaard, Eliot, Joyce, Dante, Conrad--titles that leap out and send chills up the spine.
It's the 1980s, The Bronx and Manhattan, as 16-year-old African-American prodigy Jamal sneaks into the reclusive Forrester's apartment on a dare one night and is drawn like a magnet to a bookcase, reverently touching a few, thus establishing a major theme in the film--the sacredness of literature and one's ability to create it.
Community, racism and family are in the spotlight as a closeness evolves between these two unlikely friends. The aging Forrester is loosely, and respectfully, based on J.D. Salinger. Jamal is an iconic figure, a fatherless black youth gifted at basketball and writing, who approaches Forrester to help him improve his writing. In the end, both benefit from the loving bond they forge.
Finding Forrester, with Sean Connery, begins with a scan of Jamal's stack of books. Forrester's dining table is stacked with books, and his walls are lined with bookcases. When the camera scans them, titles are shown that are the same as Jamal's--authors such as Kesey, Kierkegaard, Eliot, Joyce, Dante, Conrad--titles that leap out and send chills up the spine.
It's the 1980s, The Bronx and Manhattan, as 16-year-old African-American prodigy Jamal sneaks into the reclusive Forrester's apartment on a dare one night and is drawn like a magnet to a bookcase, reverently touching a few, thus establishing a major theme in the film--the sacredness of literature and one's ability to create it.
Community, racism and family are in the spotlight as a closeness evolves between these two unlikely friends. The aging Forrester is loosely, and respectfully, based on J.D. Salinger. Jamal is an iconic figure, a fatherless black youth gifted at basketball and writing, who approaches Forrester to help him improve his writing. In the end, both benefit from the loving bond they forge.
I admire Jim Jarmusch as a director but it is not the cause that i admire his movie "Ghost Dog ; The way of the Samurai".
I admire it that as being a hitman and criminal the main character has something for books. His every law and rule in crime business lays on Yamamoto Tsunetomo's book Hagakure.
I admire it that as being a hitman and criminal the main character has something for books. His every law and rule in crime business lays on Yamamoto Tsunetomo's book Hagakure.
I love Wes Anderson! Royal Tenenbaums is one of my FAVS!! Not only does he(Wes) show case cool books, the soundtracks to his movies rock too!! And..they star Bill Murray. Bill frekin Murray!!!
I love Adaptation. It came out in 2002, and starred Meryl Streep (my favorite actress), Nicolas Cage, and Chris Cooper.
It's about a screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman, (played by Cage) who is trying to adapt a nonfiction book The Orchid Thief by writer Susan Orlean (played by Streep), into a movie. The POV switches back and forth and between different moments in time when Susan Orlean was compiling her story for the book.
This is highly fictionalized for the record. Susan Orlean chases around John Laroche (played by Chris Cooper) a plant dealer, with his own tragic past, who was arrested in 1994 for poaching rare orchids in a state preserve. Meanwhile, Kaufman (Cage) has a twin brother, Donald Kaufman, (also played by Cage) who is a total flake, but then realizes he can write a screenplay successfully. This plunges Charlie into a depression because he feels like a failure.
Complicated right? Trust me, it has depth, emotion, and excitement. I love it because the Characters are real people. Charlie Kaufman is a screenwriter: think Being John Malkovich, it's about a real writer, Susan Orlean, and a real book, The Orchid Thief.
I think I have to watch it right now.
Susan Orlean
It's about a screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman, (played by Cage) who is trying to adapt a nonfiction book The Orchid Thief by writer Susan Orlean (played by Streep), into a movie. The POV switches back and forth and between different moments in time when Susan Orlean was compiling her story for the book.
This is highly fictionalized for the record. Susan Orlean chases around John Laroche (played by Chris Cooper) a plant dealer, with his own tragic past, who was arrested in 1994 for poaching rare orchids in a state preserve. Meanwhile, Kaufman (Cage) has a twin brother, Donald Kaufman, (also played by Cage) who is a total flake, but then realizes he can write a screenplay successfully. This plunges Charlie into a depression because he feels like a failure.
Complicated right? Trust me, it has depth, emotion, and excitement. I love it because the Characters are real people. Charlie Kaufman is a screenwriter: think Being John Malkovich, it's about a real writer, Susan Orlean, and a real book, The Orchid Thief.
I think I have to watch it right now.
Susan Orlean
Luis wrote: "I'm always very excited when movies feature books in them. I love Matilda and Liberal Arts, and I like The Book Thief, mostly because of the books.
One director who always does this is Wes Anderson..."
Great ones are like The book Thief, Neverending Story, Pagemaster, The Jane Austen Club, The Mummy
One director who always does this is Wes Anderson..."
Great ones are like The book Thief, Neverending Story, Pagemaster, The Jane Austen Club, The Mummy
Not a movie, but the Game of Thrones TV show.
The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, and The Fault in Our Stars
The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, and The Fault in Our Stars
I recently watched "The Jane Austen Book Club" on cable and I thought it was absolutely wonderful. The premise of the movie is exactly what the title suggests. It is about a group of people who are obsessed with Jane Austen and form a book club. As the movie progresses, they read several of her novels. The movie weaves in and out of the lives of the various members and depicts how things in their lives parallel and/or relate to the themes in the novels.
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