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Edna Ferber's novel upon which this is based is from an era where real names can't be used.
The second narrative is an adaptation of scenes from a novel and these are staged like a play and filmed in vivid colours.
There is a different novel staged in each chapter.
In dramatising Wilde's novel, John Osborne has condensed events, eliminated a number of characters, and generally implied rather than shown Dorian's essential wickedness.
The story reminded me of a novel written by John Saul, but I can't remember the title.
I have no read the novel on which "The Kite Runner" is based.
There are many reasons for that, but usually it is the need to cut down a complex novel to the size of a screenplay.
Director Edward Dmytryk drops a few hints at the subject of the original novel -- homosexuality, not anti-Semitism -- like when sadistic creep Monty seethes at the image of his friend Mitch talking with a strange man at a bar.
I also recently finished the novel upon which it is based.
This is a tremendous film, based on an equally fine but complex novel.
What I find remarkable about this terrific film, is that Altman, the crazy and wild guy that he is, took the novel THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK and the Sandy Dennis character was originally a male in the book.
After reading the novel, I thought I'd check out some adaptations.
All four of Gulliver's travels are related in this version, in the same order as the novel (the only time this has been done on film).
Based upon the novel The Dismissal by Ermanno Rea, in essence the story's about the slow friendship that develops between an Italian maintenance technician Vincenzo Buonavolonta (Sergio Castellitto, who can be seen as the villainous King in Prince Caspian, and was the lead in Bella Martha) and a Chinese translator Liu Hua (Ling Tai).
I especially like Angela Lansbury as Sybil Vane and George Sanders as Harry in the MGM version, but Shane Briant as Dorian in the TV-version is much better looking (I think) and far more ruthless than Hurd Hatfield in the MGM version: I think Briant is more true to the novel's Dorian.
In the end, this is a very good adaptation of the novel (it even hints at Dorian's liaison's with men, as does Wylde, which could not be done in the MGM version).
Maybe it's just a personal affection for this screen version of the Mika Waltari novel, or a fondness for things Egyptian (I grew up loving to visit the mummies in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts) but I think Maltin is a tad tough on this rather good film.
The production values are great regarding color and cinematography, and it appears some effort went into historical authenticity (much of it from the novel, I'm sure).
Bears about as much resemblance to Dean Koontz's novel as Jessica Simpson does to a rocket scientist.
Based on a novel by Masuji Ibuse who gathered information from interviews and the diaries of real-life bomb victims, the film depicts how an entire family is affected psychologically as well as physically by the bomb years after the original explosion.
Why take a perfectly good original drama, based on a perfectly good novel, and remake it as a quasi-musical?
Rona Jaffe's novel, on which the film was based, keeps on being republished, and just a few years ago Vanity Fair actually devoted an article to this delectable bon bon of a movie.
The characters match the ones to the novel very well, the personalities and mannerisms were spot on for Red and Jez.
BBC's 3 hour adaptation of the novel by Sarah Waters..."Fingersmith".
Thomas Mann's controversial novel is the basis for the film "A Death in Venice.
Intruder in the Dust is not one of Faulkner's best novel, but, even if it is a cliché to say this, it would be the crown jewel in any one else's career.
Superbly adapted to the screen and extremely faithful to Mary Webb's period novel, this film is a true masterpiece.
Actor turned director Liev Schreiber (The Sum of All Fears) does an above average screen version of the novel, Everything Is Illuminated, by author Jonathan Safran Foer.
Set in Bengal in the early 1900's, the film (based on Tagore's novel) draws an analogy between the British colonization of India and the subjugation of women.
This covers the sides of Swift's novel that were never covered before.
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