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> how completely boring it would be to be faithful to it What movies have you seen that have been faithful to the literary work but still were great movies? I'
by brodouevencode 5y ago
> how completely boring it would be to be faithful to it
What movies have you seen that have been faithful to the literary work but still were great movies? I'm struggling to come up with one.
- ashtonbaker 5y agoLord of the Rings by popular consensus, surely?
- chaostheory 5y agoLOTR and Harry Potter are easy to translate to the big screen because both follow the Hero's Journey formula. The same can be said with Dune. The only difficulty with Dune is that all of its content is hard to fit in two hour snippets.
- brodouevencode 5y agoI thought the same about Dune. It's one of my favorite books, but there's a lot of detail in there that didn't make it to the movie.
- brodouevencode 5y agoHow could I forget about LOTR! Admittedly Ive not seen any of the Harry Potter movies.
- nescioquid 5y agoKubrik made the film Lolita based on the screenplay Nabokov wrote in adaption from his novel. The narrative frame and structure for the screenplay is quite different than the novel, but more suitable for a visual medium. I'll leave it to you to decide if it is a great movie, but the proposition that slavishly transliterating a novel into a movie is usually a bad idea seems reasonable to me.
- goatlover 5y agoContact and Dune 2021, mostly. For tv, the Expanse books are adapted very well.
- dkonofalski 5y agoThe Expanse has its own problems, though. Namely, that a lot of the acting is terrible. Foundation at least, to me, has some strong acting and interesting character relationships.
- tweedledee 5y agoI enjoyed the realpolitik of Expanse but hated the trite interpersonal conflicts which seems to be a mainstay of modern drama. I find the main characters to be rather childish.
- bmh100 5y agoThey are written in a childish manner: the white knight, the highly assertive love interest, the sociopath who wishes he could be a good guy, and the cowboy. Their personalities are unrealistic in ways that I would attribute to a young teenager. That said, the quirks of these trope-like characters is sometimes amusing. I enjoy the series mainly for the protomolecule plot, despite the characters.
- Accujack 5y agoI enjoyed Neon Genesis Evangelion despite the characters.
- goatlover 5y agoI think the acting gets much better over the seasons. And when I rewatched seasons 1-3 recently, I didn't notice it. But maybe I'm so into the characters and stories that it just doesn't register anymore. And the Expanse certainly does have interesting character relations as the story progresses.
- rsynnott 5y ago2001 is a marginal case, in that the book was written concurrently with the movie (based on a pre-existing short story).
- crandom 5y agoFear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The movie is a scene-by-scene rendering of the novel, but it's also fantastic.
- johnchristopher 5y agoHmmm. Harry Potter movies ? ~Lord of the rings ? Dune (even though I didn't enjoy it) ?
- Twisell 5y ago> Harry Potter As far as "faithful to the literary work", while the first one did a pretty fine job, it would bee an understatement to say that it didn't stay the distance especially past Azkaban. (Azkaban which is ironicaly form me is still a great movie on his own as the screenplay is in my eye a sweet wink at back to the future II)
- johnchristopher 5y agoMy memories are fuzzy and I admit I don't remember how faithful they were.
- mrob 5y agoRosemary's Baby.
- chaostheory 5y agoSteven King was not a fan of Kubrick's The Shining.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoAnd it still was a much more faithful adaptation than Foundation. Foundation is like a boomerang that was thrown three episodes ago, and hasn't come back yet to its source.
- chaostheory 5y agoNot really. It feels very different from the book. It's more psychological and less supernatural even though there are elements of it from the book. If Kubrick was too faithful, it would not have been as scary.