Have you read any good books that were made into popular(or just good) movies?
Any genre or age level
2006-10-21 06:13:24 · 23 answers · asked by Figneuton 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
DaVinci Code: great book, okay movie
A Time To Kill/The Firm/Runaway Client/: great books and movies
4 Tom Clancy books: Red October, Clear and Present Danger, Sum of All Fears, Patriot Games: all good books and movies
2006-10-21 06:17:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gone with the Wind, that's one of the few movies that I think is as good as or at close to the book. I also loved the book Girl With a Pearl Earring. The movie wasn't as good, but they did a pretty good job with it. I like Scarlett Johanson also. Brokeback Moutain is good. They managed to turn that short story into a movie without changing it up too much. Memoirs of a Geisha was good. I read the book and then watched the movie, and they did a pretty good job with it. Harry Potter of course....the books are much better, but they've done a pretty good job with most of the movies. The fourth one was the worst when it came to adapting the books though. Fight Club was a great book and movie. There are some lines in the book that weren't in the movie that I loved. I might actually like the movie better than the book though because it's so great. There are many others as well.
2006-10-21 09:52:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Devil Wears Prada
One Flew over the cuckoo's nest
To kill a mockingbird
Rebecca
Bridges of Madison County
Bridget Jones's Diary
Ragtime
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Notebook
The Harry Potter series
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Memoirs of a Geisha
Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol
Oliver
South Pacific
The Ya Ya Sisterhood
Field of Dreams
Shawshank Redemption
The Da Vinci Code
A Time to Kill
The Firm
The Pelican Brief
The Godfather
Little Women
The Wizard of Oz
Gone with the Wind
Presumed Innocent
Seabiscuit
Catch me if you can
Prince of Tides
The world according to Garp
The Ciderhouse Rules
Rising Sun
The Andromeda Strain
The Great Train Robbery
Jurassic Park
The Fall of the House of Usher
The eye of the needle
The day of the jackal
Anatomy of a Murder
2006-10-21 12:14:06 · answer #3 · answered by Bonnie G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You'd be amazed how many movies are based on some sort of literature, just off the top of my head:
Leaving Las Vegas
Brokeback Mountain
The Da Vinci Code (duh)
Harry Potter
Chronicles of Narnia
Lord of the Rings
To Kill a Mockingbird
Blade Runner (Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)
The Godfather
In Cold Blood (or Capote...kinda)
Lolita
2001 A Space Odessey
The Shining
Dr. Strangelove (based on a serious book called Red Alert)
The Passion of the Christ...kinda
There are thousands more that I just can't think of right now
2006-10-21 06:18:01 · answer #4 · answered by DonSoze 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tons! The Harry Potter books, Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451, Catch 22, various Dickens novels etc, etc. It happens a lot that there is a film version of a book I have read as I mostly read classic. It's always weird to see someone else's interpretation int it?
I've also sometimes seen a film first then read the book later so that the images from the film determine how I see the book and I even read dialog in the actors voices in my head!
2006-10-21 06:23:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree Lord of the Rings was good. Book was Phenominal but the movie did a pretty good job at shrinking it down yet giving it that Huge New World Feel. Pride and prejudice. Alot of Jane Austin books have been well done. Narnia Chronicals did an OK job at it. I have heard "The Help'" that just came out is a great book and great movie. Jane Eyre Dances with Wolves Fried Green tomatoes Gorillas int the mist The Man in the Iron Mask Stand by Me Theres ALOT
2016-05-22 07:50:16 · answer #6 · answered by Cheryl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah the Movie the Note Book
2006-10-21 06:18:07 · answer #7 · answered by Tia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many!
"The Shining," by Stephen King, jumps out.
The book grabs you by the throat, and doesn't let go until you are through!
Kubrick (my favorite director all time) made such a scarey movie, and elicited such performances fro ALL the actors, that I still avert my eyes at certain points!
"Starship Trooper," by the all time greatest science fiction writer, Robert Heinlein, was both action and philosophy.
The movie was so so, but the special effects were marvelous!! Giant spiders that were hideous and real!
2006-10-21 06:28:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me the best movie adaption of a novel is "The Day Of The Jackal" by Fredrick Forsyth.It was so similar to the novel that it was superb.Another good adaption was Graham Greene's"The Third Man".However,with being written by the author himself,it would be would'nt it.
2006-10-21 06:27:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Phantom of the Opera. The novel was pretty good, but the play and some of the earlier movies are pretty good as well, I didn't care to much for the newer remake of the movie, but that's my opinion.
2006-10-21 06:16:10 · answer #10 · answered by ~Kricket~ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋