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She's a very mediocre writer and even her novel doesn't stand up the flaccid direction of Mr Hooper... and c) Hilary Swank again, such a great actor, as proved in Million Dollar Baby (but that's Eastwood too), here dressed in the contemporary New York style whilst roaming freely around the poverty of the Karoo.
Austen's novel is only superficially a story of the development of true love between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
I agree this novel of Jane Austens is the difficult to portray particularly to a modern audience, the heroine is hardly a Elizabeth Bennet, even Edmund is not calculated to cause female hearts to skip a beat.
I just finished reading Forsyth's novel 'Icon'.
OK, let me first point out that to fit a decent adaptation of the novel into 2.5 hours film time would of been impossible, so I understand the teams reason to sway from the book version and differ.
Forsyth's novel was so good and real and altered the facts of reality instead of exaggerating them..
Northanger Abbey is not my favorite Jane Austen novel, but it has its charms.
That's the sound of H.G. Wells rolling over in his grave, between this version and Spielberg's cinematic abortion it's been a tough year for the classic novel.
On the other hand, she has an obsession that is right out of the worst Victorian novel of the wronged woman, and that does seem a sort of mental problem, like Miss Havesham in a castle.
If you want the real James Bond, pick up any Ian Flemming novel.
All I can say is, if you enjoyed the novel, stop there, until the BBC creates one of their smart & sensible period masterpieces (like Pride & Prejudice with Colin Firth, which, speaking for what I imagine in my opinion, Austen would have revered).
A real let down, the novel is such a brilliant stomach churning journey into madness but this made for TV movie style nonsense is turgid and painfully slow.
The 1973 "Day of the Jackal", directed by Fred Zinnemann from the Frederick Forsyth novel, while not a masterpiece in the general scheme of things, was nevertheless quite an above-average thriller, written and carried out with considerable panache, wit, and style.
Based on Michael Crichton's so-so novel, it's a nutty mixture of lost cities, giant hippos, monster monkeys, naff visual effects and corny dialogue.
This was just telecast here in the U.S. Others have commented on the faithfulness (or lack of same) to the novel; the 1983 BBC version is far superior on this and all other counts.
Given the scope of the novel, it should not have been condensed to 85 minutes.
Her novel spawned a film that won second prize at Cannes and top prizes for the male and female leads.
Critics are falling over themselves within the Weinstein's Sphere of Influence to praise this ugly, misguided and repellent adaptation of the lyrical novel on which it's based.
Movie based on Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel.
Co-scripted by William H. Macy from, arguably, Donald E. Westlake's best and hardest to find novel, "A Travesty".
While looking for other movies made by Kazan, I stumbled across a movie that was based on a novel by Arthur Miller.
We have also seen Coyote Waits, another adaptation of a Hillerman novel, and we greatly enjoyed it too.
Great adaptation of the Christie novel.
Though the story is a novel starting point for a film, it is easily recognized by most people.
Western Union likewise led me to reading Zane Grey's novel which, in this case turned out to be one of those rare cases where I like the movie better than the novel.
Not that Grey's novel is a bad one; I just like the movie story better.
The movie in no way resembles the novel.
The mood is not unlike that of Blinkende Lygter, also by Anders Thomas Jensen, but with a novel touch.
It provoked me into researching to find out if this is a truth based movie, but to my disappointment, it is a novel based film, seemingly fiction.
Playwright John Osborne's (Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer) dramatisation of Oscar Wilde's only novel positively revels in the homosexual subtext of the original, perhaps too much so.
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