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The episodic structure of the novel is such that it's easy to dip in and out of, even if you're reading other things.
I am also a huge fan of the graphic novel, and all similar comic books.
Carrere (who wrote the novel and directed the film) is a writer and fan of the late, great science fiction author, Philip K. Dick.
My only regret is that they did not make sequels out of the second and third Lavransdatter novels to complete the trilogy, since, indeed, the ending of the movie and of the first novel leave you hungering for more.
In the novel, Malcolm Brand(Randall William Cook, who looks like Noseferatu with a scarf around his face, hiding a missing nose)removes his facial features because the one he longs for found him repulsive.
Like the love child of "Absolutely Fabulous" and every novel Jacqueline Susann's ever written, "Girls Will Be Girls" is an 80-minute festival of campy trash, hilarious one-liners, and bitchy, catty women.
Based on a novel by Edogawa Rampo, a Japanese author whose name transliterates to "Edgar Allen Poe".
Hitchcock should never have accepted this lethal restriction given by the novel on which the movie is based, because from now on the movie spins around in trivialities.
One of the 1950s strangest noir films, Gerd Oswald's sensational and twisted 1958 psycho- shocker SCREAMING MIMI was based on a pulp novel by the great Fredric Brown.
This story, based on a novel by California author Dan Totheroh, could have failed miserably if it had not been cast correctly, since the entire tale hangs on the believability of the girl played by Ida Lupino.
I first read Jane Eyre the novel many years ago and have since watched various adaptations of it but never really found one that I thought captured the essence of the book and portrayed the characters as I imagined them.
They bring the novel alive and every scene they are in sizzles!
The people who made I Am The Cheese disregarded the atmosphere of the original novel.
The novel is the archetypal bodice ripper but the Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders is far more than that.
OK, it's not completely true to Heinlein's magnificent novel.
Jane Austin's novel "Pride and Prejudice" is without a doubt one of my favorite books.
No surprise, since it is based on a novel by William Faulkner.
However, i still rented out this movie, thinking that being based on a Michael Crichton novel, it cannot be that bad.
In the novel, Janie's finding Tea Cake is heartening because it is a symptom of her growth into a woman who can lead herself and has the strength to find and believe in that sort of love.
So when the new movie came out I went to have a look, wondering why the novel's this popular.
I began to re-read the novel after finishing the miniseries due to difficulty of understanding some dialogues.
Unlike the movie, the plot of this miniseries keeps faithful to the novel but still refreshes us with a few new scenes those are absolutely natural and are definitely an enhancement.
Only very occasionally does a film come out that may seriously be considered a faithful adaptation of the novel in question.
In this movie adaptation, however, much effort is made in accuracy to not only the plot of Victor Hugo's novel, but the atmosphere and characters.
When the novel THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS (by Hans Helmut Kirst) was published in the 1960s, it was a best seller.
I thought to myself "maybe it's just misunderstood to those unfamiliar with Ellroy's novel" But frankly, it just never felt right,,, and then it went more and more uncomfortably wrong; the actors in their roles, the soundtrack vs. certain scenes, the story fumbling it's way around with not enough mention of The Dahlia herself (which really drove the characters in the novel).
I had previously seen Tom Waits version of Woyzeck in the theater which I love, read the novel, which is equally good.
I am not sure quite how this film claims to be based on Faulkes's novel Charlotte Gray.
It is a bit dated and 'stagey' in its opening minutes, partly because it is taken from the play, not the novel, by John Steinbeck, and also because so many of the outstanding cast were only making their second or third film, and needed warming up and getting used to the camera.
Although, Mr.Quinn appeared in a movie of a Mickey Spillane novel, "The Long Wait",the character he played was JOHNNY McBRIDE.
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