What is your favourite book? Which actors do you think would be perfect to play the characters of the book, if the book were made into a film?
2006-09-09 00:33:14 · 15 answers · asked by rachel 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
aww, kuriouskelly I know you did! some people are so stupid! hehe, btw I agree with you on vivien leigh, but unfortunately since I read somewhere that Clark Gable had really horrendous halitosis, I can't help but think of it every time i see him in a movie! haha
2006-09-09 00:42:01 · update #1
My favorite book ever is
"Step,Ball, Change"
by Jeanne Ray
its so funny and yet it expounds some deep wisdom about how its never too late to grow up and the right decisions are sometimes the hardest.
"If Shakespeare and Lucille Ball (without the deception) had collaborated on a novel, it would be something like Jeanne Ray's Step·Ball·Change -- light, amusing, and perfectly paced.
Even now, with dual careers and as the parents of four grown children, Caroline and Tom are rarely alone. Their youngest son, George, is living with them while finishing law school. Their daughter, Kay, who works with her dad in the Raleigh public defender's office drops by unannounced at all hours with hungry friends in tow. Woodrow, their contractor, came to build a Florida room and never left.
Finding herself in her house with no signs of anyone being around, Caroline has prepared a home cooked dinner and Tom has put on a Stan Getz record. "There was potential for romance written all over it" until the phone rings. Watching her meal congeal and Tom's plans go awry, Caroline listens as her daughter Kay sobs. She's just become engaged to the richest and most eligible bachelor in town and can't stop crying.
Meanwhile, the "children's" phone rings, and Caroline's sister, Taffy, is calling. Like her niece, she's weeping. After almost forty years of marriage, her husband has decided to leave her for a woman two years younger than her daughter.
The story juxtaposes planning a nine hundred plus guest wedding with a marriage coming unstuck while the foundation of the house under the threat of collapse with hilarious results. Step·Ball·Change offers the guilty pleasure of fine chocolate with none of the calories and is completely irresistible."
http://www.southernscribe.com/reviews/women/step_ball_change.htm
If i chose the characters to play this movie i would pick
diana lane for caroline (the mother)
scalett Johansson kay (the daughter)
and you need some great casting directors for everyone else
its a great book
2006-09-09 00:54:23 · answer #1 · answered by Sarah K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If comics count, I liked Batman and what do you know it was made into a movie (they finally got it right) with Christian Bale just as I expected. I'm not so big on Katie Holmes and someone more mature would've been better(maybe Lara Flynn Boyle).
I like Robert Ludlum's Janson Directive and his Covert-One novels, sadly I can't think of any actors who'd pull the respective characters off properly.
2006-09-09 01:54:52 · answer #2 · answered by yasiru89 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK this is a book by a favourite author i haven't got a favourite book, R A Heinlein, Friday, actress Angela Jolie to play Friday there are a few other good characters in the book
2006-09-09 00:46:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz. Tom Hanks, Melonie Griffith
2006-09-09 00:40:11 · answer #4 · answered by blank 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'The Red Tent', by Anita Diamant. I'd like to see Julianna Margulies as Dinah.
'Slammerkin', by Emma Donoghue, with Emily Browning or Felicia Day as Mary Saunders.
And 'Outlander', by Diana Gabaldon. Christina Hendricks as Claire Randall and Heath Ledger as Jamie Fraser (because I can't think of anyone else).
2006-09-09 01:33:12 · answer #5 · answered by ChiChi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't got a favourite book, but scanning my shelves (do I get the 10 points for the extra effort??) what about Angelina Jolie as Madame Bovary...I just have a bit of a thing for both of them :-)
2006-09-10 10:41:25 · answer #6 · answered by All the answers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha ha - just read the answers you got last time! Can I be Harry Potter this time please??
Actually, on reflection ... I'd go for War and Peace with Johnny Depp as the lead and me as his assistant. Actually ... it doesn't have to be War and Peace ... just any book with more than 300 pages and JD as the lead and me as his leading lady. Yes. That's my answer. Definitely.
2006-09-09 00:40:33 · answer #7 · answered by Away With The Fairies 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favourite book is Candide, by Voltaire.
I would probably have someone like Tobey Maguire play the hapless hero.
2006-09-09 00:34:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the dice man by luke rhineheart and i would have the following
to play the various choices during the fim
to reflect lukes mind
if a one is thrown .... george w bush
if a two is thrown .... madonna
if a three is thrown.... brad pitt
if a four is thrown.....mr blobby
if a five is thrown.... robbie williams
if a six is thrown.... jesus
2006-09-09 00:44:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi
2006-09-09 00:42:27 · answer #10 · answered by ali a 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋