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This disaster drama created for TV is based on a novel by a popular New York TV anchorman-turned-author Chuck Scarborough.
I enjoyed the book but am not that devoted a fan, and though I was sorry to see characters and scenes I liked left out, I know it would be impossible to make a movie that retained everything in a full-length novel.
The oft-filmed Hope novel receives what is generally considered its best screen treatment.
What makes the Hope novel so worthy of being filmed so often?
This was like a bad, bad dime novel come to the big screen.
Kate Beckinsale plays a young lady among a decidedly strange group of relatives on an obscure English country farm and, while ostensibly there to write her first novel, brings change to the lives of everyone involved.
Jeff has requested the help of a secretary to help him on his new novel and a woman named Angela Roberts (Jane Merrow) has come for the job.
Another excellent source of the plight of women captured in Malaysia during WWII is the film "A town like Alice" based on a novel by Nevil Shute.
If it is meant to be a stylised "melodramatic" version of the novel, then by any standards of artistic taste it should be melodramatic, not a disastrously badly written hotch-potch of cinematic ideas.
I initially identified with the Mexican culture portrayed, but foolishly so--the novel (Midaq Alley) is based in Cairo and written by an Egyptian author.
In that sense, the film captures the baseness in the fact that it's as if the novel has been interpreted by tittering frat boys who pick out the most basic "shock" elements and run with them with anti-authoritarian glee.
True, it's a poor telling of the novel, bits from which are stuck together without the structure of it being clearly conveyed or, apparently, recognized.
Also true, it's filled with bad theatrical ideas, such as combining the heroine of the novel with Austen herself (and then casting the role with an actress who can play neither one).
Halfway through the movie, not seeing much I recognized on screen, I turned to the novel, and found one paragraph of it more involving, amusing, and wise than everything in the movie rolled together.
It even treats seriously the interlude with her cousins, St. John Rivers and his sisters, something film versions of the novel usually try to minimize or alter completely.
The dialogue and narration are often taken directly from the novel, with just some abbreviation.
The movie leaves the fate of the Finzi-Continis unresolved, but we know from the novel by Giorgio Bassani that none of them survived.
Granted, both the original Lonesome Dove novel and film are unique works of extremely fascinating classic story telling.
Based on a prize winning Spanish novel and set in Banderas' home town, Malaga, it is apparent that the novel resonated deeply with Banderas.
I now long for an English translation of the novel.
were among the very best of the creators of novel and surprising applications of animation from the late teens through the entire decade of the 1930's.
From what I have read from comments and summaries, and from the novel From the Earth to the Moon, it has terrible graphics, a bad story-line, bad acting, and poor special effects.
Too much time is concentrated on Daffy and Richard following his path, unlike in the novel.
The start of "the Edukators" reminded me of J. G. Ballard's novel Cocaine Nights, which features a man who breaks into high security luxury complexes not so much as to damage and steal property, but to shake the residents up.
Clive Barker's novel "The Forgotten" is the basis for this picture that shows a lot of style under the direction of Bernard Rose.
Based on a thoroughly excellent novel of the same name by Stella Gibbons, this movie is grand.
"The Great Train Robbery" is based on a novel by Michael Crichton.
The author of the excellent 'All Heads Turn As The Hunt Goes By', John Farris, wrote his version of 'Carrie' after that novel's success as book and film; it was called 'The Fury'.
At 300 minutes, it might seem a bit steep to sit through -- after all, the novel is barely under 400 pages and its plot is concise enough to garner a shorter transition from book form to images.
But, when you sit and read PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, widely considered to be Jane Austen's magnum opus, and savor its miniaturist style, its sharp language, the treatment of even its minor characters as a huge tapestry, there is no other way to create a complete vision of the novel but to do a televised re-working of her novel.
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