I think that it's hard to make a great movie out of a great book, although I think they managed to do just that with "The Green Mile". There are a lot of books that were made into movies that I thought were just awful. How about you? What is the worst book-to-movie adaptation you've ever seen?
2006-06-25 07:01:30 · 13 answers · asked by postalmaria 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
"Yentl the Yeshva Boy" by I. B. Singer, which became Barbara Streisand's movie, "Yentl," about a Jewish woman living in the 1800s who dressed as a man to attend a seminary. (Actually, the original was a novella, not a full-length book, but it's the same issue.) The original was a serious story about a person who was described as having "the soul of a man in a woman's body" and who enjoyed dressing up in her father's clothes -- definitely a transvestite and probably transgender FTM. Streisand turned it into a third-wave feminist polemic. In the orignal, Yentl (who takes the male role of a man named Anshel) remained living in the male role at the end of the story. In Streisand's book, she reverted to wearing women's clothes and went to America to be a liberated woman. Totally different plot! BTW, the author, Singer, was so upset with the Steisand screenplay that he tried to stop production, but since he had sold the subsidary rights to the story when it was published, he had no artistic control over it.
2006-06-25 07:14:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Congo or Sphere. I love Michael Crichton books but the movies are lousy except maybe the original Jurassic Park
2006-06-25 14:45:43 · answer #2 · answered by vardvu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Battlefield Earth
2006-06-25 16:07:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Shining. Jack Nicolson was good in the part. The wife was horrible and they didn't following the book close enough. Too many good things were left out.
2006-06-26 00:13:57 · answer #4 · answered by Birdlegs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Virgin Suicides. I was so so so mad, not so much that they made the girls blondes instead of brunettes, but because of Kirstin Dunst becoming the main focus, which is not what is was about. Absolutely terrrible
And my husband hates Starship Troopers, they ruined a military book and made it a sci-fi crapfest.
2006-06-25 14:26:15 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Walking Tall
Where the Red fern grows
The Outsiders
2006-06-25 14:08:03 · answer #6 · answered by AutumnGirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The last Harry Potter movie(the goblet of fire). I was really disappointed in the maze scene. I was expecting all these magnificent creatures to come out and it ends up being people runing around. It really ruened the effect of the whole movie.
2006-06-25 14:04:15 · answer #7 · answered by disprincess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Da Vinci Code
2006-06-25 14:04:57 · answer #8 · answered by Gehrig 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Power of One- Bryce Courtenay.
some books should just be left as books.
2006-06-25 14:06:26 · answer #9 · answered by Rebecca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
V.C Andrew's Bestseller "Flowers in the Attic" turned into a horrendous box-office flop of the same name.
2006-06-25 14:06:23 · answer #10 · answered by SweetPiper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋