Favorite film adaptation of a novel?

[sreelavanya]

Favorite film adaptation of a novel?

Gone with the Wind. It kept very faithfully to the book and it's impossible to read the novel without picturing the scenes from the film in your mind.Your which one your like that

[Scott]

I still haven't seen any of the Jane Eyre movies yet, so I am interested to see how that came out as a film.

My favorite is Fight Club by far. I think a great adaptation has to somehow match the book particularly in tone and overall message without just trying to exactly act out selected scenes from the book as if the book itself was the manuscript.

[Amphigory]

My favorite is Fight Club by far. I think a great adaptation has to somehow match the book particularly in tone and overall message without just trying to exactly act out selected scenes from the book as if the book itself was the manuscript.

As soon as I saw the topic I thought: Fight Club, without a doubt! A brilliant film of a book that would (I think) have been ridiculously difficult to translate to the screen.

[Redlegs]

Having recently read Fight Club, I am dead keen to see the movie. I understand it is excellent!

Having recently seen Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy based on the novel by John Le Carre (which I read many years ago), I would have to say it's the best film I have seen in years. Almost the perfect film!

[altairslover]

I would have to go with Lord of the Rings. What Peter Jackson did with that movie was to make sure that the book mattered, to make sure that things are as they were in the book. A lot of movies don't do that. When I read the books when I was young my own imagination paled in comparison to what they did with the movie.

[booklvr62]

I would agree with the LOTR trilogy,and also the [2005]film version with Kiera Knightley/Matthew Macfadyen of Pride And Prejudice.

[Fran]

I would agree with the LOTR trilogy,and also the [2005]film version with Kiera Knightley/Matthew Macfadyen of Pride And Prejudice.

I still prefer the old black & white version of Pride & Prejudice with Edna May Oliver as Lady Catherine de Bourgh, a brilliant performance and IMO a movie truer to the original P & P text.

[booklvr62]

I would agree with the LOTR trilogy,and also the [2005]film version with Kiera Knightley/Matthew Macfadyen of Pride And Prejudice.

I still prefer the old black & white version of Pride & Prejudice with Edna May Oliver as Lady Catherine de Bourgh, a brilliant performance and IMO a movie truer to the original P & P text.

I was never aware of that version of Pride And Prejudice (1940)Stars:Greer Garson/Elizabeth Bennet,Laurence Olivier/Mr. Darcy,Edna May Oliver/Lady Catherine de Bourgh,Maureen O'Sullivan/Jane Bennet, but I have just put it on reserve at my library and there are 2 ahead of me.I am excited to see it. Thanks!

-- 24 Mar 2013, 07:54 --

Well last night I watched Pride And Prejudice (1940 version)Stars:Greer Garson/Elizabeth Bennet,Laurence Olivier/Mr. Darcy,Edna May Oliver/Lady Catherine de Bourgh,Maureen O'Sullivan/Jane Bennet,but I found it just ok.I really missed all the fun verbal sparring between Lizzie and Darcy in the modern Kiera Knightley/Matthew Macfadyen version.

[rachel5]

All three Narnia films . Andrew Adamson did a phenomenal job on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Prince Caspian especially. I'm watching some behind the scenes footage on my TLTWATW blu ray copy, and Andrew is one of the few directors that actually has a personal connection with every actor on screen. He worked and talked personally with every cast and crew member, helping each of them into their roles. He did a great job with the casting, the special effects, and the locations for filming. I think if those movies would have been handed over to another director I don't think they would have had the same quality. There are no flaws in these movies in my opinion, as cheesy as that might sound. I love them. My favorite memory is seeing The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in the cinema when I was eleven. Everything was pretty close to how I pictured it in the book. And even though I love Narnia because I'm a Christian and because of how C.S Lewis turned Biblical stories into children's fantasy, I also say that you don't have to be religious to enjoy the Narnia books and movies, they're for everyone, regardless of your age, gender, sexual orientation, or racial background.

[fitzml]

Ralph Fiennes directed a film version of Onegin by Alexander Pushkin that I just loved. It's an unrequited love story between a wealthy and jaded young man (Fiennes) and the beautiful socialite (Liv Tyler) who loves him.

[rachel5]

I'm also going to add that while Voyage of the Dawn Treader doesent stack up to the previous Narnia films IMO , it's still a good movie in some areas.

[moonstruck]

Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky. Really nice movie too. And it was truthful to the book, for the most part.

[Redlegs]

If you love Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, DON'T see the latest film version starring Kiera Knightley. Keira was good, but what the director did to the film was truly awful!!

[Fran]

If you love Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, DON'T see the latest film version starring Kiera Knightley. Keira was good, but what the director did to the film was truly awful!!

I disagree Redlegs, Anna Karenina is my favourite book of all time (probably) and I'm not a big fan of Kiera Knightley but I thought the recent adaptation, while not at all what I expected, was original, unusual and quite beautifully filmed. I actually liked it a lot but, as I suggested here, I would recommend watching some of the earlier, more booklike versions first. At least it has brought the book to new readers attention.

[Redlegs]

If you love Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, DON'T see the latest film version starring Kiera Knightley. Keira was good, but what the director did to the film was truly awful!!

I disagree Redlegs, Anna Karenina is my favourite book of all time (probably) and I'm not a big fan of Kiera Knightley but I thought the recent adaptation, while not at all what I expected, was original, unusual and quite beautifully filmed. I actually liked it a lot but, as I suggested here, I would recommend watching some of the earlier, more booklike versions first. At least it has brought the book to new readers attention.

Fran, I respect your right to your opinion, but I thought the film was flawed on so may levels. The director, whose previous work on Atonement and Pride and Prejudice was terrific, let his attempt to be clever, just for the sake of being clever get in the way of telling the story. The stage setting, the stop motion photography, were just annoying gimmicks. On the positive side, Jude Law as Karenin was brilliant, Knightley did as well as she could have given the direction and some of the cinematography was quite beautiful. The camera certainly loves Keira. But the single biggest flaw, in what must be the most serious mis-casting of an actor ever, was the character of Vronsky. There is no way that Anna would have ever fallen in love with such a blonde curly headed, pretty boy fop as that. He needed to be a much more ruggedly handsome character for the film to be at all credible. The chemistry just didn't work and the whole film lacked emotion because of the cinematic trickery. Ialso thought that Levin could have been better cast, and that the film could have spent more time with Levin, as the book did. I was seriously disappointed.