Best book to movie adaption

[Peregrinator]

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**DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN THE LAST CHAPTER OF "A CLOCKWORK ORANGE**



Okay. Basically, the 21st chapter starts out like the 1st - except Alex is now the oldest of his new droogs. One night, they're out doing what they do, but Alex isn't really participating...he just doesn't feel like it. He tells the boys he's going home. He's found a picture on the street of a baby, and for some reason he keeps it in his wallet. He decides to go into a tea shop, and bumps into Pete - one of his old droogs from the old days. Pete tells Alex that Georgie has been killed (if memory serves). Pete is married, has a kid, and works a regular job. His wife is lovely, but thinks that Alex is a bit strange - he still speaks in nadsat, the slang the gang kids speak - and it's a bit much for her. Alex sits with his tea, thinking about Pete being married, thinking about the possibility of a job, getting married (perhaps to the young lady from the record shop) and having a baby - like the baby in the picture in his wallet. He's starting to think that all of the "fillying and shop-crasting" is really for the young, and that he's had enough - that he can have a kid, and the kid can get caught up in the folly of youth, if he likes.


Black Shanglan - I don't think that "In order for real good to exist, evil must sometimes triumph." is really the message of the piece. I believe that it's more about the folly of trying to artificially impose something that is against the organic nature of a being. In the last chapter, Alex comes organically to the conclusion that Ludovico experiment was trying to artificially re-program in him, simply by growing up.

I was involved in a stage production of "A Clockwork Orange" and the gentleman who wrote our adaptation spoke directly with Burgess about a year before he died. Burgess had apparently always hated that American publishers left out the 21st chapter - he said that it was part of the theme of maturity - 21 chapters = 21 years (pretty much a universal age of maturity) Burgess also gave his permission to produce a stage version "as long as it stays faithful to the book and includes the 21st chapter."

Cheers! My version definitely did not include that chapter. Interesting.

 

[Nigel]

Cheers! My version definitely did not include that chapter. Interesting.

The version I first read in high school didn't include it either. It was re-released when I was in grad school (1985-ish) with the chapter included. Easy to find in paperback. You should give it another look....Burgess writes better than I summarize.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I liked Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy myself.

You must mean the BBC miniseries. Hitchhiker has never, to date, been adapted for the big screen. Never, you hear me?! *sob* NEVER!

 

[Nigel]

You must mean the BBC miniseries. Hitchhiker has never, to date, been adapted for the big screen. Never, you hear me?! *sob* NEVER!

There there, King...there there... <pats back>

 

[Shamanskiss]

You must mean the BBC miniseries. Hitchhiker has never, to date, been adapted for the big screen. Never, you hear me?! *sob* NEVER!

ermmmmm... these any interest to you ?

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/3510521/Hitchhiker-Guide-to-the-Galaxy/Product.html

and

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/

 

[MechaBlade]

Sin city is based off several graphic novels by Frank Miller all taking place in Basin city and under the same comic name but about different characters.

I don't know about that. I know that Hartigan and that Yellow Bastard were in the comics. Additionally, I heard they actually took some scenes frame by frame from the comics.

 

[Phelia]

Twilight.

I can honestly say that I walked out of the movie with the same feeling I had when I finished the book. And that feeling was, "oh man, did that ever lick bag."

Not that I read it or saw the movie or anything.

 

[In_the_Nick_of_time]

Touching The Void was an amazing adaptation.

That is an inspirational film.

Everyone should watch it.

 

[SunnyGirl]

even though it was made for television . My pick is Lonesome Dove

I've read the book several times, and only recently watched the mini-series again. It was a great adaptation

 

[TheRealFATANG]

I liked Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy myself.

Heresy I say! Awful Awful. No where near the book. I'm filing a complaint with the Vogons.


I say High Fidelity or Catch 22 or Thank You For Smoking

 

[TheRealFATANG]

I was teasing, but the movie is like an entirely different story with the same beginning and characters. I loved it, but calling it an "adaptation" is a stretch. Same with calling the books an adaptation of the original radio series.

For THGTTG that's a hammer to nail statement.

 

[TheRealFATANG]

LOTR. It's not identical to the books, but it's very close. And it captures the spirit completely.

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There is only one trilogy and it didn't involve hobbits -paraphrased from Clerks 2

 

[TheRealFATANG]

Ok, so, Road to Perdition, good.

Shawshank is too epic in cinema to compare to the book - Why not the TV series adaption of the Stand?

The Sci-Fi Dune movie - Also good, very exact to the Novel, Children of Dune can lick a dirty litterbox though.

Timeline and Sphere were almost exact adaptions, very very well done.

I know I'm going to receive shit for this, but Phantoms was pretty good. Also, wasn't Rounders a novel?

 

[Traveler78]

Ok, so, Road to Perdition, good.

Shawshank is too epic in cinema to compare to the book - Why not the TV series adaption of the Stand?

The Sci-Fi Dune movie - Also good, very exact to the Novel, Children of Dune can lick a dirty litterbox though.

Timeline and Sphere were almost exact adaptions, very very well done.

I know I'm going to receive shit for this, but Phantoms was pretty good. Also, wasn't Rounders a novel?

Not that I know of.

 

[Beco]

Shawshank is too epic in cinema to compare to the book - Why not the TV series adaption of the Stand?

short story....not a book

 

[WolfMann63]

I really wish that someone would take on The Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman and make it into a movie threequel.

That would be SO BADASS.

If they got Friedman herself involved in the process, I'd love to see that happening. According to her website there's supposed to be a big Coldfire surprise coming; I wonder if it might possibly be?

As an aside, have you read the first two books of The Magister Trilogy yet? They're definitely worth reading.

 

[Eeyore007]

Ok, so, Road to Perdition, good.

Shawshank is too epic in cinema to compare to the book - Why not the TV series adaption of the Stand?

The Sci-Fi Dune movie - Also good, very exact to the Novel, Children of Dune can lick a dirty litterbox though.

Timeline and Sphere were almost exact adaptions, very very well done.

I know I'm going to receive shit for this, but Phantoms was pretty good. Also, wasn't Rounders a novel?

I was surprisingly impressed with how faithful they were. I love the original.. the darkness of it. It took a bit to get used to the look of the syfy version.

I remember enjoying the Children but then I never read the books. Was the tv version faithful..because I think I want to read the book.

 

[pointless]

I was surprisingly impressed with how faithful they were. I love the original.. the darkness of it. It took a bit to get used to the look of the syfy version.

I remember enjoying the Children but then I never read the books. Was the tv version faithful..because I think I want to read the book.

i didn't like any of the scifi crap, but if you go right to children of dune you just skipped over dune messiah, so don't do that. the book series goes dune, dune messiah, children of dune, god emperor of dune and then i stopped reading but i thinks it's heretics of dune followed by chapterhouse dune and that's all frank herbert wrote. everything else is his kid.

 

[KRCummings]

i didn't like any of the scifi crap, but if you go right to children of dune you just skipped over dune messiah, so don't do that. the book series goes dune, dune messiah, children of dune, god emperor of dune and then i stopped reading but i thinks it's heretics of dune followed by chapterhouse dune and that's all frank herbert wrote. everything else is his kid.

Chapterhouse and Heretics really aren't too bad. The whole thing ends sorta suddenly though. You can tell he had more to write but the quality was going down and really it was starting to get old with all the Duncan Idahos. Seriously, Frank make up a new character or something.
Anyway, I like all the books he wrote. I read one by the kid and wanted him to die a painful death.

 

[pointless]

Chapterhouse and Heretics really aren't too bad. The whole thing ends sorta suddenly though. You can tell he had more to write but the quality was going down and really it was starting to get old with all the Duncan Idahos. Seriously, Frank make up a new character or something.
Anyway, I like all the books he wrote. I read one by the kid and wanted him to die a painful death.

i just couldn't get into them. i think i was trying to read them all one after the other and that was a bad idea. i didn't even finish god emperor for years because i burnt out on it. when i finally finished it i was sad that i hadn't bothered before. it was pretty good. the last two i still don't know about because i just couldn't get through them and i will not read his kids stuff. you can not make me. cashing in on a dead writers series is a bad idea regardless of whether you're related to them or not.

 

[KRCummings]

i just couldn't get into them. i think i was trying to read them all one after the other and that was a bad idea. i didn't even finish god emperor for years because i burnt out on it. when i finally finished it i was sad that i hadn't bothered before. it was pretty good. the last two i still don't know about because i just couldn't get through them and i will not read his kids stuff. you can not make me. cashing in on a dead writers series is a bad idea regardless of whether you're related to them or not.

God Emporer is my personal favorite after the original. I love Leto II. What a great character.

 

[pointless]

God Emporer is my personal favorite after the original. I love Leto II. What a great character.

it was goodness. it should've been the capper.

 

[Wrong Element]

If we're talking about the biggest gap between the quality of a novel and the quality of a film, the answer is obviously The Godfather. The book is simply not well written.

 

[pointless]

If we're talking about the biggest gap between the quality of a novel and the quality of a film, the answer is obviously The Godfather. The book is simply not well written.

never read it, never will.

 

[WolfMann63]

never read it, never will.

Smart man. I'm an avid reader, and it took me forever to to finish that damn book.