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There is enough darkness in the novel, but Bronte's Rochester is relatively young, athletic, powerful, and charming when he chooses to be.
I was raised watching the original Batman Animated Series, and am an avid Batman graphic novel collector.
Guy de Maupassant was a novelist who wrote a novel about a man, a poor man, without any moral qualities.
At the end of the novel, he married himself with the biggest daily paper owner's daughter, in the greatest church of Paris : "La Madeleine".
The Shirley Jackson novel 'The Haunting of Hill House' is an atmospheric tale of terror, which conveys supernatural phenomena in an old mansion.
Maybe because I'm such a fan of the graphic novel and at the risk of sounding like a fanboy(the only form of life lower than a fanboy is a cockroach)The movie as a whole fails for me.The additions Jude Law, and the subtractions everything else left me feeling cold and more than a little disappointed.
A novel by Remarque.
This hodge-podge adapted from a Gore Vidal novel (actually one of the great American writers) makes THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN and VALLEY OF THE DOLLS look like Fellini art-works.
Based on Tom Wolfe's satirical novel that was praised by all (i have not read it yet) Tom Hanks stars as a wall streeter who accidentally kills a black boy while lost in a bad part of NYC Willis stars as the reporter who starts Hanks on his downward spiral..
One exception is the novel entitled "The Lad and the Lion", brought to the screen as "The Lion Man" (1936), an over-talkative, static, old-hat, slow-moving and rather dull movie, despite being filmed on real desert locations.
I think Phillip Kaufman read the cliff's Notes version of the Kundera novel and then set about making this film.
Rather foolish attempt at a Hitchcock-type mystery-thriller, improbably exchanging espionage for archaeology and based on the Robin Cook novel; incidentally, I’ve recently acquired another adaptation of his work – COMA (1978) – in honor of the late Richard Widmark.
I have yet to read Shirley Jackson's novel, something of which I've been meaning to do for quite sometime.
The point of Wolfe's original novel -- indeed the point of the whole story -- is that things take place because of a carefully calculated sense of expediency.
The novel is full of malice.
A murderous screenwriter(Judd Nelson)assumes new identities in order to direct his own novel CABIN BY THE LAKE.
I know that it is a hard task to change a well loved novel into a movie.
The idea that a teenager could do anything of far reaching proportions, let alone deter a world war was novel and thrilling.
Based on the novel by Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is about the young son of a notorious gangster who spends his last teenage summer roaming around with two friends.
The things that he chose to leave in were so ridiculously unbelievable that I was happy he chose to leave out some of the most important parts of the novel.
This ABC straight-to-TV failure does absolutely no justice to the brilliant fantasy novel that is A Wrinkle in Time.
This novel, the first in her 'time quartet', is a beautiful take on life, the universe, and time itself.
The effects look cheap and ridiculous, the plot is mushy and uneven, the dialogue is far-fetched and just about every magical characteristic of the novel has been lost.
When I saw that Mary Louise Parker was associated with this epic novel turned film, I was intrigued.
Being a fan of the book, I assumed she'd be playing Tony, Roz, or Charis, but more so, I was intrigued to see how they would turn this very head-y, almost psychological (but not psychological thriller) novel in to a movie that would be accessible to those who hadn't read the novel, and that would be at least mildly satisfying for those who had.
This film had a good plot though, nothing you couldn't miss out on if you would simply read the novel that George Orwelll wrote.
I read the novel 'Jane Eyre' for the first time back in 1986.
May the Lord have mercy on the director, the screenwriter, the author of the novel, and the poor souls who see the movie or read the book.
This is a typical Steele novel production in that two people who have undergone some sort of tragedy manage to get together despite the odds.
I wouldn't call this a spoiler because anyone who has read a Steele novel knows how they ALL end.
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