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I think this is the best film they could have made with the material... and this is from someone that routinely rants about films not being like their literary counterparts.
It's so rare to find a literary work adequately translated to the screen that I may have rated this film higher than it deserves, but not by much.
It stays almost entirely faithful to Vonnegut's book (without being stilted or overly literary) and adds to it a poetry that is purely cinematic.
Even with these faults, I think this version is a seminal one, and if it's not as powerful a drama as it ought to be, it's every bit the literary work that it equally ought to be.
The person who wrote the review "enough with the sweating and spitting already" has no grasp of what cultural, literary, or psycho- critique is.
Capote himself could never write another major literary work after "In Cold Blood."
Tom, idealistic, insensitive and naive is embraced by Audrey, emotionally more mature but more vulnerable, accepting his sometimes preposterous social and literary speculation as a sign of substance in comparison to the increasingly jaded and cynical world of her preppy friends.
The worst is that there is nothing literary left - not the first time a director's agenda betrays that they just don't get why literature exists in the first place.
Not only is it a near perfect visualization of something quite complex, the Faulkner literary style, but it shows Robert Duvall to be the genius that he is.
This film will hold you spellbound until its last scene, which is one of the most heartbreaking and poignant in cinematic (and literary) history.
Fellini's illusionary film takes extreme literary license with their travels as they are invited to visit the very gluttonous rich, the inclement poor and the visually grotesque.
With fine acting, score and cinematography, this screen classic translates well from its literary heritage.
Based on an Isak Dinesen novel, it appears not to transcend its literary origins.
This movie is one of the few, if not the only Colombian production that I can feel proud of, it tells a story close to our culture and our collective personality in a psychedelic and frenetic tone that reminds us of Fernando Meirelles's "Cidade De Deus".The movie is filled with creative film-making and literary reflections, and the various outcomes are usually pumped with an irony that makes it amazingly realistic, and often put that slightly sadistic smile on your face. the wit and crudity of Aljure in representing the particular things that makes us Colombians is overwhelming,and is truly revealing at some times.Don't let other comments bump you out, this really is one of the most amazing films I have ever seen.
The four main characters in the movie embody the four achetypes that are represented in literary works of this nature, The Bad Girl (who doubles as The Slutty Girl), The Good Girl, The Black Girl, and The Fat Girl (Yes, she gets naked too, but unfortunately, she and The Black Girl don't get as much nude screen time as The Bad Girl.)
Neverwas is a muddled film that reduces the heartbreak of the disease of schizophrenia to a fanciful lark of literary imagination and children's fanciful dreams.
(Pirandello's play "Six Characters in Search of an Author" is a good literary example).
At times, Fanny is fickle, indecisive, brash, and disrespectful, the complete opposite of the literary Fanny's character.
Anyway, she meets a fan of her literary work and the two begin to investigate the town's history and residents.
This featured another original film-script written by Zalman King, and its name was not derived from any previous literary or dramatic work, but was clearly intended to exploit the reputation which WO-1 had earned - no doubt its sub-title was also selected with the same objective.
Unlike the rowdy broadness of the Patrick Dennis play and the Rosalind Russell film, George Cukor's adaptation of the Greene work tries to be high-toned and literary, while simultaneously striving to seem madcap and funny.
The feeling that washes over you when the credits roll in Seven (which are damn good credits I might add, start and finish) is on a par with a great Shakespearean tragedy, and it is for this reason why I think that films such as Seven should be considered as more serious in a literary sense.
Before commenting on the film as a whole, I want to make that clear, because in the inevitable rush to pick this film apart (the plot, the voices, the religious significance, the literary accuracy, the moral issues, the music, the comparisons with Disney and de Mille, etc...) one might easily become distracted from the aesthetic and technical triumphs of The Prince of Egypt, and that would be unfortunate.
Librarian book-worm(Jenny Wright), who enjoys reading horror stories which she invests all of herself into, finds that a sadistic alchemist, from a "non-fiction" book titled "I Madman" has emerged from the literary page believing she is Anna, his muse for whom he wishes to please with the "perfect face."
The Brits really are the best when it comes to "cinematic reproductions of literary masterpieces",(as I like to call them).
There will always be deviations from perhaps the original idea, and of course certain literary concepts will be lost.
When Imitation Of Life came out in 1934, Fannie Hurst was at the height of her literary reputation having had her two best works this one and Back Street, come out back to back as both novels and movies.
Neil Gaiman, on the other hand, has proved throughout his publishing career that he possesses no more literary talent than one would expect from a prancing-penned, new-age, semi-goth, leather-jacket-and-sunglasses twit who apparently missed the musical bulletin that Bela Lugosi is, in fact, dead.
from the insane tap dancing crooner psycho sledge hammer wielding gangster to british literary classics over to the monsters people keep hidden from the world....or should we say gifts?
After defending a woman and killing the man who was beating her, a local journalist takes it upon his own to publish the story, with his own literary add-ons, and even invents Tigre's basis for his future in crime.
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