Green Room - Week 26 - Day 4

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

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

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

I think The Hunger Games have done a good job of book-to-movie adaptation.

The True Blood TV series started out pretty close to the books but went off the rails as far as I can tell. It's been a while since I've read the "Sookie Stackhouse" series, and the TV show was quite good, but not too close to what I can recall of the books.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

True Blood is the first thing I think of whenever someone mentions bad adaptations of books. What HBO did to that series is inexcusable, IMO.

I can deal with the screwing up of plot lines, but when you change the essential makeup of the characters, that's just wrong (and one of the biggest problems I have with most fanfic).

It was early on, but the biggest reason I decided to stop watching True Blood was what they did to Sam's family. Sam's mom is one of my favorite barely-mentioned characters in the series, and Sam is probably my favorite character in the series. The season they gave him a trailer trash dog-fighting family background my head exploded.