Green Room - Week 26 - Day 4

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What is your favorite book-turned-movie/movie-turned-book? (TV shows count)

Do you find it better when they follow the original note-for-note or go off in their own directions and interpretations? (That's more for TV shows, since they have more time and space to accomplish that)

What have been some of your *least* favorite adaptations and why do you think they failed?

One thing that *won't* fail is that the topic for the main competition is here: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/797204.html
and Last Chance Idol has their topic over here: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/797508.html

So make sure to get your entries in by tomorrow!

Now excuse me for a few minutes - I have a red-handled machete and some promises to keep.

Comments

[sarcasmoqueen.livejournal.com]

In my opinion, most novels are way too long to be adapted to film satisfactorily. Someone up this thread mentioned that all of Stephen King's books made crappy movies. I tend to agree with 3 exceptions - Stand By Me and The Stand. But these were not standard books or movies - Stand By Me was based on a short story, which is much easier to make into a manageable length movie, and the others were a TV miniseries. Yes, TV miniserieses (yes, I just made up a word)can be pretty badly done, but personally, I enjoyed both of these.

That being said, I think a lot of books to movies can be enjoyed just on their own, not in comparison to the book itself. I love the Harry Potter series - both the books and the movies. The characters looked EXACTLY like I pictured them in my head, which is usually my biggest problem with books made into films. The movies were definitely missing a lot of the details that are in the books, but I still found them enjoyable in their own right.