(11-30-2015, 03:52 PM)jsgrimm45 Wrote: Good READ. If you want a book and movie that is the same read Fail Safe and watch the movie. Just a minor change to the end.
Thanks. I was thinking if you want to see movies that's only association with the novels are the title, try the James Bond series by Ian Fleming. The old joke was if they ever ran out of ideas for Bond films they could simply adapt the original novels.
(11-30-2015, 05:06 PM)irukandji Wrote: Do you ever wonder why someone would take a book and make it into a movie? For instance, Jaws. The book was boring and awful. Someone must have envisioned something there that could work. The movie was great, very scary on the big screen.
First a general comment. There is the opposite, when they make a book from the movie. Two examples spring to mind. Both the Night Stalker and Night Strangler were movies that became novels, although the Night Stalker was written before the movie, the movie was made, and that motivated a publisher to then publish the novel. But thee Night Strangler was Rice's adaption of a screen play by another author. Secondly, Louis L'Amour for example had to widely acclaimed books that were essentially books created from the screen play post movie release, Hondo and How the West was won. Hondo is a special case though, it was short story by L'Amour, called the Gift of Cochise that then became a screen play and movie; then L'Amour created the novel Hondo from the screen play based on his own work the Gift of Cochise - LOL!
About Jaws, you comment interests me. Maybe I was to young to "get it" when the movie came out, but the whole Hooper and Brody;s wife thing alluded me in the movie, but the novel made the affair very clear in graphic detail. I think that element was very lost in the movie, and the whole Hooper-Brody dynamic was lost in the movie.
(11-30-2015, 05:39 PM)Belle Wrote: It sounds as though L'Amour understands and embraces the changes that come along with that trade-off.
Louis L'Amour appears to have had nothing but contempt for th editorial process and the changes that would be made, but in the end if the check cleared that seemed to be the more pragmatic concern that won.
The son seems very honest, but he seems very different than his father. For instance one of the alterations he makes upon re-releasing a book is to make it more P.C. I am not fan of the whole P.C movement and personally I think you should let an author's or director's work stand is, but he can do as he wished with his family legacy.
The director comment, is my own bias against the colorization of classic films. If you want to see a disaster, watch the colorized version of it's a wonderful life. The Potter character is ruined in the color version.
Cheers...