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Here in the Age of Innocence, Scorsese depicts (with the help of Edith Wharton's novel) of a time in New York when things when things were elegant, though also brutal in the deep.
Not only did it not stick to historical facts (which would be understandable since Gregory didn't either), but it also completely changed the plot of the novel.
First off, the first twenty minutes or so of Mary getting married, etc were never even in the novel, and basically wasted space in the movie.
I admit, the idea is intriguing-- an old man writes a novel about a bunch of lawyers being killed, and then dies himself, but not before showing the book to a disbarred lawyer who claims it as his own & makes a ton of money, but oops! the book isn't fiction & our protagonist winds up implicating himself for the murders.
Director Richard Rush occasionally does fluid work here, and the film has fervently funny and thoughtful scenes, however Robert Kaufman's hot-headed script, adapted from Ken Kolb's novel, is awash with half-realized ideas.
In fact there is only a small fraction of the original Dracula in the novel.
I haven't read Dodie Smith's novel so don't know whether the slightly muted tone is due to allegience to the original story.
Adapted from the famous novel by Elmore Leonard.
His indignation upon finding out his what his novel has been re-titled is classic.
Saint Maybe (1998) (TV) was directed by Michael Pressman and based on the novel by Anne Tyler.
(This film is based on the novel "Angie, I Says" by Avra Wing.
A noir-ish attempt with a betrayal-and-treason plot that seems straight out of a Jim Thompson novel.
Based on the rambling, seedy novel by James Elroy, which I read and enjoyed very much over a decade ago, this filmization of the novel fails in its casting, structure and set design.
This is lightweight film noir that will will send most viewers back to the video store to rent the DVD of "LA Confidential", an excellent adaptation of another Elroy novel.
Well, to be quite honest, particularly in comparison with Atonement which did the novel perfect justice, this film completely ruined the book.
This is a fine adaptation of the novel
It then morphs into a suspense-thriller/sci-fi film: Like some sort of Agatha Christie novel meeting "Rambo" via "Aliens."
One of the advantages of a novel (this is based on one by Graham Greene) is that it can go in many different directions successfully and work very well because the written word allows for a much fuller depiction of what's happening.
If you translate the novel into a movie, though, you're dealing with a more limited medium and it's a lot harder to make multiple story lines work.
He first appeared in Clive Barker's novel "The Hellbound Heart", which was later turned into the 1987 hit movie HELLRAISER, which was written and directed by Barker.
Having read sk4ek's comment on this, maybe it would be fair to add that it was made from a novel, and I watched the subtitled version (and I don't understand Japanese), so it seems I probably didn't get a lot of what made the novel good.
Not only was this NOT originally a Miss Marple novel, it's populated with the most unsympathetic bunch of characters in the history of miscasting.
Renowned minister and author Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter's House of Dallas, Texas has brought to screen his best-selling novel that has been a major hit amongst women in his ministry for nearly 10 years.
Written at a time in his life when he doubted if he could (read: should) be the 'voice' of the forgotten women, the broken woman, the fallen woman, ...the woman that is often invisible in most church congregations, after the release of his novel, the overwhelming answer was 'preach on, T.D., preach on'.
Aside from the technical issues of directing, the movie was a total failure, those who did not read the novel have seen nothing!
I have loved the book series since it came out in '79. it is, in fact, my very favorite novel Ever! my advice: if you've never read the books, you'll like the movie.
I've seen all the adaptations of Jane Austen's most famous novel Pride and Prejudice and I have to say that this 1995 mini series by the BBC is by far the best.
I must say I've been at this since I was 10 years old...watching horror films...reading Fango...searching for those lost treasures...after years of seeing horror films everything starts to blur and become the same old thing...stories retold, murders recreated..scares duplicated...Basically, you realize that there is not much new or novel out there...ghosts, monsters, zombies...psychos...that's about all.
I have to confess that - aside from the broad brushstrokes - I'm largely unfamiliar with the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and so am not able to speak to the faithfulness of this movie to that story.
Some of the performances (especially I thought that of Hardie Albright as Dimmesdale, with the exception of that closing scene) seemed a bit forced, although I appreciated the attempt to mix some humour into a movie that could have been very heavy, as Alan Hale and William Kent portray the attempts of Hockings to help Goodfellow court the widow Crakstone, although in some ways (again, I haven't read the novel) that seemed unconnected to the overall story.
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