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Post by mysterydriver on Jul 5, 2012 12:27:28 GMT -5
www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/131167Stephen King and The Shining is one I knew of before hand, but didn't know about PL Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, weeping during the first showing of the film before vowing to never work with Disney again.
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Post by hassanchop on Jul 5, 2012 12:34:25 GMT -5
Not sure if this is true, but didn't the author of Charlotte's Web hate the animated adaption? Or am I thinking of something else?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2012 13:50:09 GMT -5
All authors hate what others do to their work. It's inevitable.
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Jul 5, 2012 14:14:27 GMT -5
All authors hate what others do to their work. It's inevitable. Not true, King felt Darabont made the Mist better. |
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Post by Jiren on Jul 5, 2012 14:16:10 GMT -5
No Alan Moore?
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Post by Welfare Willis on Jul 5, 2012 14:26:43 GMT -5
All authors hate what others do to their work. It's inevitable. John Ajvide, author of Let the Right One In, has had a swedish and american version of his book made and was happy with both films. Also I'm happy they made this list and manged not to mention Alan Moore. |
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Post by The Ichi on Jul 5, 2012 14:27:49 GMT -5
A lot of these I can sympathise with the author on with, even if I enjoyed the movie adaptions. They took a lot of pride in their work and it must suck to have a director not only not get what they were going for, but recieve credit for it.
However, Winston Groom can piss off. The book version of Forrest Gump sucked and the film turned it into something great.
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Post by Red Impact on Jul 5, 2012 14:28:52 GMT -5
Probably only considered regular novels, not graphic novels. Also, I don't think any of Moore's movies had the critical acclaim that most of the movies on this list did, although they did include Sahara and that movie that JD Salinger hated, so that's probably not a reason. |
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jul 5, 2012 14:38:13 GMT -5
Probably only considered regular novels, not graphic novels. Also, I don't think any of Moore's movies had the critical acclaim that most of the movies on this list did, although they did include Sahara and that movie that JD Salinger hated, so that's probably not a reason. Watchmen was the only graphic novel to make Time's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century, for what that is worth. I wonder how Stieg Larsson would have felt about the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo films. I haven't seen the American one, but the original captured the novel pretty well I thought. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2012 14:40:01 GMT -5
That'll fill up an entire list. Also add the author of Fight Club liking the movie. I think he even called the film superior than his book. |
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Post by nate5054 on Jul 5, 2012 14:50:05 GMT -5
www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/131167Stephen King and The Shining is one I knew of before hand, but didn't know about PL Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, weeping during the first showing of the film before vowing to never work with Disney again. King hating the Shining is what convinced me to not take an author's opinion about the movie version of their work too seriously. |
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Post by Red Impact on Jul 5, 2012 14:54:18 GMT -5
Probably only considered regular novels, not graphic novels. Also, I don't think any of Moore's movies had the critical acclaim that most of the movies on this list did, although they did include Sahara and that movie that JD Salinger hated, so that's probably not a reason. Watchmen was the only graphic novel to make Time's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century, for what that is worth. Yeah, I know that, but in general, people don't think of graphic novels the same way they think of regular novels. Even though Alan Moore blows a lot of other writers out of the water. |
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Post by Cyno on Jul 5, 2012 14:58:00 GMT -5
All authors hate what others do to their work. It's inevitable. George R.R. Martin is very satisfied with the Game of Thrones series on HBO. Granted he's involved with it, but outside of writing a couple of episodes here and there it's mostly others' work. Same with Neil Gaiman and the Stardust movie. He was a producer, but didn't do any screenwriting. But he was pretty happy with the job the others did. |
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Jul 5, 2012 15:00:01 GMT -5
www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/131167Stephen King and The Shining is one I knew of before hand, but didn't know about PL Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, weeping during the first showing of the film before vowing to never work with Disney again. King hating the Shining is what convinced me to not take an author's opinion about the movie version of their work too seriously. He had every right to hate it, the movie missed the point entirely and changed the meaning of the story. That said the movie is a damned good movie, but it is one hell of an awful adaptation. |
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Post by The Ichi on Jul 5, 2012 15:31:50 GMT -5
www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/131167Stephen King and The Shining is one I knew of before hand, but didn't know about PL Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, weeping during the first showing of the film before vowing to never work with Disney again. King hating the Shining is what convinced me to not take an author's opinion about the movie version of their work too seriously. King is right though, it is a bad adaption of the book. It's a great horror movie, but a bad adaption. |
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Post by CaptainFall on Jul 5, 2012 15:33:15 GMT -5
All authors hate what others do to their work. It's inevitable. It makes me wonder why some authors, even when their book is turned into a film that's critically acclaimed and everything else, still get annoyed about it. A book and a film are two different things and the film adapts the story, it doesn't recreate it. If they're sensitive enough to get offended when the film changes what the book was about then they shouldn't sell it in the first place. The studio will do whatever they want to it and won't care about the original text. |
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Post by BoilerRoomBrawler on Jul 5, 2012 15:50:12 GMT -5
I agree that The Shining is an awful adaptation. That it is widely considered a horror classic demonstrates that the quality of an adaptation does not necessarily correlate to actual quality. The Shining mini-series demonstrates the opposite side of the coin - good adaptation but it sucks.
Slightly related, but I didn't care for the ending to The Mist. There, I said it. It lost me when the military showed up (and that is a subplot I didn't care for either). The Mist should not have been explained and I'm fine with him shooting the others, but it should have ended on a note that suggests he really did spare them. Basically, right before the military arrives.
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Post by Knailsic From Now On on Jul 5, 2012 16:19:02 GMT -5
I already knew about King, Burgess, and Dahl but still a good read.
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Post by stinger on Jul 5, 2012 16:49:41 GMT -5
All authors hate what others do to their work. It's inevitable. J.K. Rowling doesn't. Of course, she was very involved with the making of the Harry Potter films. |
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Post by kayfabulous on Jul 5, 2012 18:24:02 GMT -5
I haven't read the Mary Poppins books but I remember someone telling me that book version Mary Poppins was a scary child abuser, I think they used the word evil to describe her.
That author just sounded WAY over the top.
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