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(Anne Boleyn was the younger sister, not the older one as misrepresented in the novel, etc., etc.) Despite the terrible flaws in this misconceived monster of a project, some sterling performances do stand out.
It brought the novel to life in the most magical way.
At that time I was studying Jane Eyre as a text for 'O' level English Literature and it made studying the novel a real pleasure.
Director Agnieszka Holland, a devoted admirer of the original novel, understood Mary's importance, and brought the story around in a full circle to end in the scene where Lord Craven, Colin's father, gives Mary her deserved recognition.
Ultimately it's source was a novel with potential, that collapsed into a messy conclusion.
The director did a very bad job of porting a Stephen King's novel for Bollywood.
In this adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, the two actors bring to life the retarded Lennie Small and the self-standing George Milton, respectively.
Multiple references to the film's source, Henry Miller's eponymous novel, don't help much.
"They" say it's overly faithful to the bestselling novel by Alaa Al Aswany which I have not read. .
Even hardcore Whodunnit fans will probably be disappointed in this one, a slow, confusing and badly directed tv film, based on an Agatha Christie novel.
Let me start by saying, I know that you have to alter and omit scenes from a novel when adapting it to the silver screen.
Now the major novel plot points are there, Harry learns about Voldemort's past, Draco struggles with his chosen task and Snape does kill Dumbledore but much of the set-up plot and subplots have been completely omitted.
Despite the movie's Harlequin-level romance novel title, the unlikely pairing of classic Hollywood leading lady Claudette Colbert and resident bad-boy Orson Welles actually works in this intriguing albeit far-fetched 1946 melodrama directed by the relatively undistinguished Irving Pichel.
(In fact, Eastwood's character died halfway through the novel.)
Frances Gray Patton wrote this beloved novel of a small-town spinster.
Adapted from a novel by Virginia Woolf, this is a classic example of the triumph of style over substance.
Apparently this film was vaguely based on a short Stephen King novel, and I did see an image from the film in a book about special effects, I think it was the leading James Bond actor that attracted me.
I'm surprised at seeing how highly regarded this version of Victor Hugo's classic novel is.
After all it has a great cast based on a provocative novel at the time.
Fannie Hurst's tear jerking 1933 novel about the sacrifices mothers make for their daughters spawned two popular movies separated by a quarter century of glacially-changing social attitudes - a highly regarded 1934 version that remains faithful to the book's narrative and an elaborate 1959 remake which changes certain plot details to service German-born filmmaker Douglas Sirk's heavily Baroque style of film-making.
The historical novel format in literature is a popular way to tell a fictional story against the background of real events that actually happened.
After the appalling Absolute Beginners, a film that - despite all the promise and potential of a great novel and a decent cast and a soundtrack by Bowie - falls short of the target by miles, Temple manages to barge around with an admirable lack of skill here in this cardboard cutout piece of cheap music hall.
This is the creme De la creme and anyone who knows and loves the novel would see that it as near perfect as one could get!!
It has some novel ideas, such as illegally obtaining a fresh cadaver that has to be transported from the city morgue to the school, while rigor mortis is beginning to set in.
(a couple of the four "acts" play out at the same time and while at first glance seeing both sides of a phone call in different segments seems novel, you realize that the timing would not allow Ted the bellhop to be in two places at the same time.)
The movie experience was almost like getting sucked into a novel possibly a modern day Camus perhaps.The story also perhaps was focusing on the lack of a social support structure in modern societies.
I just finished the book Peyton Place last night and was excited to get the movie on laserdisc to see how Hollywood interpreted the true to life stories of the numerous characters in the novel.
I did not expect the novel verbatim but also did not expect an entire whitewash of the true drama in life.
Director Alan J. Pakula's film, a departure from his conspiracy and suspense dramas, is an adaptation of William Styron's best-selling novel of the same name.
Pretty Maids All in a Row is based on a novel by Francis Pollini and has all the makings of a cult film.
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