This week I’m joining in with the marvellous meme invented by the clever people over at The Broke and The Bookish. Here are my favourite adaptations. Click on any picture below to look through the gallery.
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- Ford Madox Ford’s amazing series of novels: Cumberbatch et al. acted it beautifully for the BBC.
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- Anna Karenina – only dates men called Alexei.
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- The gadgets, the one-liners, the Cold War: what more could you want?
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- I loved the film and the book equally as Stephen Chbosky adapted his own epistolary novel for cinema.
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- Both film and book are utterly magical, even though the plots vary and the castles look entirely different!
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- This was properly funny, sweet and touching. I cried.
Here are my least favourites.
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- This simply does not need to exist, Gene Wilder has it covered.
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- Nicolas Cage – always a bad bet.
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- I like Zooey Deschanel as much as the next person, but ‘kooky’ doesn’t quite cut it in this case.
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- Not terrible, but didn’t live up to the incredible quality of Philip Pullman’s books.
What do you think? What would be on your best or worst lists? Tell me in the comments!
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I agree that Parade’s End is awesome!! And that Gene Wilder definitely did it best. Great post, thanks for sharing.
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The new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was so terrible! And creepy!
If You have a sec please check out my top ten http://www.bookcrackercaroline.blogspot.com/2013/07/top-ten-tuesday-3.html
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Although not a movie, I thought the musical remake of Wicked was about a billion times better than the book. The I am legend movie is also way better (or just more modern, perhaps) than the book. But my all time favorite adaption is the movie Adaptation, which had so little to do with the book it was meant to be based on but was still brilliant (so be nice to Nicholas Cage!)
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Although not a movie, the musical version of Wicked was a million times better than the book. The I Am Legend movie was also better than the book it was based on, although maybe that’s because the book dated pretty badly. My all time bestest adaptation of a book into a film would have to be the movie Adaptation (so don’t be so mean to Nic Cage!)
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I totally agree with you on all of them, especially Nicolas Cage.
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