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Certainly wouldn't ask anyone to watch it as a true adaptation of the novel.
I looked into it mainly out of a morbid curiosity since I loved the novel, and I wish I hadn't.
It disregards the novel a lot and changes all sorts of factors.
I notice that the previous reviewer (who appears to be still at school) gave this movie a very good review and I can only assume that this is because the reviewer hasn't seen the far superior 1989 BBC adaptation of this classic novel.
I do appreciate that they finally used such a young, plain woman to play Jane, a character who is supposed to be a worldly 18, but if you want to see a version that closer approximates the personalities and passions of the novel, please see the 70's version with George C. Scott and Susannah York.
I realize that we are talking about the guy whose first novel featured a humiliated, blood-covered, emotionally crippled teenage girl slaughtering everyone at her high school prom...but mainstream King always at have characters and plot elements that leaven the grimness of the proceedings a bit, and mostly have endings that offer at least a glimpse of hope and human feeling.
What an empty and lack lustre rendition of the classic novel.
In this strangely-lackadaisical apocalypse, the world suffers from a dual plague of zombies and vampires, but no one seems to be too worried about it in this Grade-Z film which bares less resemblance to Sheridan Le Fanu's famous short novel than my mother's lasagna recipe.
The novel is thoroughly post modern and highly artificial in its wildly overblown characters and the disintegration of traditional plot line and character development.
The director of the film has completely missed the point of the novel.
It's interesting that a novel with no plot has become the basis for two films.
I thoroughly enjoyed Bilal's graphic novel when it came out, and was amazed when I saw the trailer for this film, and even more so when I found that Bilal had directed it himself.
"Smithereens" is the kind of worthless flick which just hangs out among the cable channels taking up space like a cheesy dime novel in the public library.
I suppose that any novel that's as much of a downer as Moby Dick would not find much favor with Depression era audiences who had enough of their own troubles.
But any resemblance to the classic Herman Melville novel is a pure coincidence.
i'm not opposed to witches, and i liked "carrie" (the novel and the movie) but this one bothered me.
I was drawn to this movie, curious to see how they have adapted Hubert Shelby's brutal novel.
This is indeed a god adaptation of Jane Austen's novel.
I have to say that this miniseries was the best interpretation of the beloved novel "Jane Eyre".
At that time, I was a bookworm and I had just read Charlotte Bronte's novel.
This is an engrossing story, worth telling, a quickly-paced and novel adventure that profits from a capital performance by Harris, fine turns from Wagner, Coburn, and Karen Black, along with Justin Henry as the snatched lad, with an appropriately whimsical score contributed by Wilfred Josephs, and top-notch cinematography by Frank Watts, with all footage shot in a beautiful autumnal Ontario province.
The story from the novel has been somewhat altered, but that's more because of the limitations that they had on a stage that they just didn't change back for a filmed version.
In fact, I rather think the whole production flows better than the novel does.
For one thing, it was one of those "loosely based on the novel" movies, which usually means that the book author saw the script, hated it, and refused to be associated with the film.
The original novel they adapted was "The Kennel Murder Case", perhaps from a writer's standpoint the best of the Philo Vance mysteries by the strange S.S. Van Dine.
Come on, guys, a film isn't and shouldn't be a biography (nor a novel!).
I have never seen an author, all of the intelligence and life behind the workings of a novel, translated so well to film.
Based on Christy Brown's autobiographical novel, this endearing film tells the story of his life, him being affected by cerebral palsy and being considered basically not a person by everyone including his mother.
Richard Brooks' adaptation of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel is truly an artistic achievement.
Criticism of the film EVENING, based on the novel by Susan Minot and adapted for the screen by Minot and Michael Cunningham, has been harsh, so harsh that it may have discouraged many viewers from giving the film a try.
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