My choice is House of Sand and Fog
2006-08-22 14:42:36 · 20 answers · asked by BAnne 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
to kill a mockingbird
2006-08-22 14:50:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Goodfellas- The book was filled with anecdotes and details, but somehow Scorsese and Pileggi managed to fit nearly everything into the movie.
A Clockwork Orange- I thought it was a very good adaption, I don't know why the author was so mad at Kubrick for the way he adapted it.
Some of the books I don't have to read because the films were adapted so well:
Jules and Jim, by Francois Truffaut
The Tin Drum, by Victor Schlondorff
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Phillip Kaufman
Once Upon a Time in America, by Sergio Leone
Paris, Texas, by Wim Wenders
2006-08-22 17:18:52 · answer #2 · answered by Erik 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) To kill a mocking bird
2)A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
3)Spartacus...yep i did read the McCarthy era book printed in England by black balled Howard Fast..excellent reading to the screen impeccable. A masterpiece...!!!!
4) Goodbye Girl by Neil Simon.....
I have many more but you do not need my litany and I have as of yet not red the House of Sand and Fog....though each year I purchase three b'day books for myself and this will be one of them...thanks you.
Sincerely....adaptations are fabulous..in some cases a marvel.
Straw dogs by Peckinpah was another...oh so many......i rest my keyboard.
OH! A GREAT read s "Cry to Heaven" by Anne rice...re: the Italian castrati, few have been able to dlve into it...even psychologist I kwo couldnt read it...very inspiring....prepare for a page turner. Ciao.
2006-08-22 19:23:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shogun by James Clavell
The 12 (or was it 14?) hour version, not the 2 hour mini-movie. It was so close to the book and the true history of the period, it was eerie. I read the book first and the visuals in the long version made it all come alive for me. There are many more, but none has had the majesty of Shogun
2006-08-22 14:59:08 · answer #4 · answered by rowlfe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shawshank Redemption
2006-08-22 14:47:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle.
Probably the only book/movie that I like equally in both formats.
2006-08-22 14:49:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lord of the Rings
2006-08-22 14:51:22 · answer #7 · answered by fender bender 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pet Semetary.
2006-08-22 14:50:09 · answer #8 · answered by musicgrlluvher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Da Vinci Code, or The Virgin Suicides
2006-08-22 14:48:17 · answer #9 · answered by pollypureheart 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lord of the rings
2006-08-22 14:55:42 · answer #10 · answered by Conservative Texan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lord of the Rings.
2006-08-22 14:48:43 · answer #11 · answered by Jay S 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋