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Post by elektro on Mar 17, 2011 12:54:47 GMT -5
"A History of Violence" (the movie) has only base connection to "A History of Violence" (the graphic novel). In fact, only the first act of both have anything in common, and even they have little differences between them. From the second act onward, they are two very different beasts, with very different plot developments and endings. Not even the names are the same between them.
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Post by CMWaters on Mar 17, 2011 12:57:53 GMT -5
How close was the Princess Bride book to the movie?
EDIT: Oh, and from what I've heard...Neverending Story would fit this topic.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2011 13:05:17 GMT -5
How close was the Princess Bride book to the movie? EDIT: Oh, and from what I've heard...Neverending Story would fit this topic. Princess Bride was pretty close in a lot of ways, with a lot of the same dialogue. The book though goes into the politics more and has a different frame story, with William Goldman claiming that the "Princess Bride" was a real book that his father read abridged parts ("the good parts") to him when he was a kid, as opposed to having a grandfather reading the story to his sick grandson. William Goldman (badass writer/scriptor of movies like Heat and Butch Cassidey and the Sundance Kid) did do the movie script, so that helped keep the movie and the book similar. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Bladerunner had more differences than similarities.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 17, 2011 13:06:15 GMT -5
A film that differs from the book, but in a good way, is The Godfather. They cut all the young Vito stuff(which later got put into Pt. II, which it fits with entirely better than if it would have gotten shoe-horned into pt. 1) and thankfully, the whole sub-plot with {Spoiler}The woman who Sonny is banging who has the big vagina and gets surgery so her vagina ain't so big anymore . The book is pretty good, but FFC did probably the greatest (notice I didn't say most faithful) adaptation of a book possible. I like to think that the reason they cut that subplot was at the request of Marlon Brando, but he only made that request after he agreed to the role and was deep into his Godfather character. Like such: Brando: Coppola, we've known each other many years, but this is the first time you ask me to be in your film, for help. I can't remember the last time that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee. And now you come and ask for me to be in a film with a big gaping vagina, what have I done to earn such disrespect!?
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Mar 17, 2011 13:08:58 GMT -5
Dune....where to even start with THAT one. I love it, but as I grew older I realized what a huge WTF it is.
To quote wikipedia
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Post by mattperiolat on Mar 17, 2011 13:18:00 GMT -5
EDIT: Oh, and from what I've heard...Neverending Story would fit this topic. Yup, having read both the book and seen two of the movies (*shudders at the thought of the third*), there are differences. {Spoiler}Only the first half of the book (Atrayu's quest/Bastian reading the book) is adapted into the first movie and even then, not everything is included and characters are modified to fit the movie plot. They TRIED to include some stuff from the second half of the book (Bastian using Auryen to recreate Fantasia, but slowly losing his memories/Smerg's cameo/the witch character) in the the second movie, but it's so bastardized to not even be recognizable. Funny thing - the first movie included more and is stronger, the second made do with less and is the weaker, IMHO.
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Post by CMWaters on Mar 17, 2011 13:24:28 GMT -5
EDIT: Oh, and from what I've heard...Neverending Story would fit this topic. Yup, having read both the book and seen two of the movies (*shudders at the thought of the third*), there are differences. {Spoiler}Only the first half of the book (Atrayu's quest/Bastian reading the book) is adapted into the first movie and even then, not everything is included and characters are modified to fit the movie plot. They TRIED to include some stuff from the second half of the book (Bastian using Auryen to recreate Fantasia, but slowly losing his memories/Smerg's cameo/the witch character) in the the second movie, but it's so bastardized to not even be recognizable. Funny thing - the first movie included more and is stronger, the second made do with less and is the weaker, IMHO. All that said though, there's one major thing that the movies have over the book.
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Post by mattperiolat on Mar 17, 2011 13:41:51 GMT -5
Yup, having read both the book and seen two of the movies (*shudders at the thought of the third*), there are differences. {Spoiler}Only the first half of the book (Atrayu's quest/Bastian reading the book) is adapted into the first movie and even then, not everything is included and characters are modified to fit the movie plot. They TRIED to include some stuff from the second half of the book (Bastian using Auryen to recreate Fantasia, but slowly losing his memories/Smerg's cameo/the witch character) in the the second movie, but it's so bastardized to not even be recognizable. Funny thing - the first movie included more and is stronger, the second made do with less and is the weaker, IMHO. All that said though, there's one major thing that the movies have over the book. Indeed and FTW.
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Post by willywonka666 on Mar 17, 2011 13:43:26 GMT -5
I'll have to go with "Red Riding Hood" based off the original tale
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 17, 2011 13:48:31 GMT -5
Shrek is nothing like the book it was based on.
Pretty much 99% of anything "based on" Lovecraft.
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Post by El Hijo De Slapnuts on Mar 17, 2011 14:10:13 GMT -5
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Post by Cela on Mar 17, 2011 14:15:11 GMT -5
Troy, turned the Trojan War into SPRING BREAK 1200 BC!!!
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Mar 17, 2011 14:17:55 GMT -5
Troy, turned the Trojan War into SPRING BREAK 1200 BC!!! I think I'm the only person who liked Troy.
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Post by Citizen Zero on Mar 17, 2011 14:27:09 GMT -5
If we're counting comic books as 'books' then the only thing Hellblazer and the movie 'Constantine' have in common is that both have a guy named Constantine that smokes and regularly deals with the supernatural.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Mar 17, 2011 14:37:55 GMT -5
Troy, turned the Trojan War into SPRING BREAK 1200 BC!!! I think I'm the only person who liked Troy. I liked it. Maybe there's one or two more of us.
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Post by Pervy Stone Cold on Mar 17, 2011 14:44:36 GMT -5
A teacher in 12th grade told us that the Frankenstein movie with Helena Carter was a terrible adaptation.
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Post by Goldenbane on Mar 17, 2011 14:53:56 GMT -5
A teacher in 12th grade told us that the Frankenstein movie with Helena Carter was a terrible adaptation. On that note, the Frankenstein movie with Boris Karloff was a horrible adaptation as well, LOL.
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Post by Red Impact on Mar 17, 2011 14:59:00 GMT -5
A teacher in 12th grade told us that the Frankenstein movie with Helena Carter was a terrible adaptation. Judging by the Wikipedia synopsis, it appears that it's faithful in parts, but then goes crazy in other parts. Most notably {Spoiler}I don't recall the character of Professor Waldman in the book. At the very least, there's no one who knew about Frankenstein's work. Frankenstein's mother didn't die giving birth.
The biggest change would be the ending. In the movie, he tries to bring Elizabeth back to life, and she burns herself in horror after seeing what she is. In the book, that never happens, he resumes his chase of his monster after the monster kills Elizabeth. So yeah, if you watched the movie in lieu of reading the book, you'd get the entire ending wrong due to the WTF factor with them changing that. Other than that, they seemed to get the rest of it right. Especially how Frankenstein was actually fairly well spoken.
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Post by Sajoa Moe on Mar 17, 2011 17:48:44 GMT -5
Roy Hobbs struck out at the end of The Natural.
In the movie, he hits a dramatic walkoff home run that destroys the light fixtures in the stadium.
And this was in Chicago (an away game), so it shouldn't have even been a walkoff.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Mar 17, 2011 17:58:34 GMT -5
If we're counting comic books as 'books' then the only thing Hellblazer and the movie 'Constantine' have in common is that both have a guy named Constantine that smokes and regularly deals with the supernatural. What the hell were they thinking? "So this movie is based on a comic about an amoral occult detective from Liverpool? I know, let's get Keanu Reeves!
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