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The story has little to do with Jack London's original novel.
1st watched 2/18/2007 - 4 out of 10(Dir-Leon Leonard): Fair adventure movie based on a novel by the author of Moby Dick fame, Herman Melville.
Jane Austen was poking fun at the Gothic mania in her society, and much of the novel is tongue in cheek.
I have always wanted to see the movie because I loved the novel, but was warned away because I'd heard that the movie was a stinker.
I am agree that sometimes a film should be different from the original novel but in this case it was more than acceptable.
Here's why this movie fell very short of its potential(I don't read much, so I don't care WHAT the novel was like).
"Congo" is based on the best-selling novel by Michael Crichton, which I thought lacked Crichton's usual charm, smart characters and punch.
It's from a Thomas Hardy novel.
I'm not British so that means almost as much as being a Thomas Hardy novel.
While the David Lynch version of Dune is choppy, awkward, and unfaithful to the novel, it is visually well designed and well acted.
Also, as others have pointed out before, this novel was intended to satirize the Gothic craze prevalent in Austen's time, but it appears that this "soft horror" film was designed and meant to be taken seriously.
Some of the movie reads like a Tom Clancy or Vince Flynn novel!
Played po-faced like a melodrama, or Cold Comfort Farm without the jokes, this effort is not helped by a scriptwriter with a tin ear for dialogue who misses entirely the novel's sense of irony or tragedy.
A few notable exceptions are "Stand By Me" from "The Body", "Carrie" from the novel of the same name, and "The Shawshank Redemption" from "Rita Heyworth and Shawshank Redemption".
Apparently, all that you have to do to enjoy box office succes is title your movie after a revered 19th century novel.
Even the name of the main character was changed, and his screen personality was completely different from that of the individual described in the novel.
The creepy,mysterious atmosphere from the novel doesn't appear one single time in the movie,when I saw it first in the cinema I even fell asleep.Why was Margot Verger, a very important character, totally omitted?
Jonathan Demme had exactly the right feeling for the plot, the characters and their relationships towards each other in The silence of the lambs, he should have done Hannibal,too.My only comfort is that I've seen the movie only two times,it's long ago and thank god for that reason I'm able not to see the scenes from the movie when I read the novel.
Based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, the film focused on wise guy Chili Palmer (Travolta) and his attempts to break into the movie business.
The sequel, also based on a novel by Leonard, is this time directed by F. Gary Gray who's Italian Job in 2003 was one of the years highest grossing films.
The whole concept would've been interesting for a novel, but a movie just can't bare with a story with that much inner thinking and so little action.
After completing the lackluster novel, Heart of Darkness, I moved on to watch the movie, which was a complete and absolute disappointment.
However, even though I had read the novel, the movie still made no sense at all, so I can't imagine how lost I would be if I had skipped the book altogether.
THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER in the form of a novel by Kim Edwards was a highly successful bestseller and probably was featured in more reading groups than any other novel during its circulation.
So what happened when the novel became a made-for-television movie?
This version of Mansfield Park, while being extremely accurate to the novel lacked the compassion I felt for Fanny which is crucial and central to this Jane Austen story.
I tried to read this dull and very turgid novel years ago, but was unable to finish it.
This movie is worth viewing only to see him....and he seems like he wandered into a bad dime romance novel, poor fellow.
In the opening credits, it says "From the novel by Elizabeth", and completely leaves off the author's last name... rather odd, but since it was von Armin, they may not have wanted the German association at the time... Sad to hear it was a flop when it was released, with those fun names like Frank Morgan (the Wizard) and Jessie Ralph, who played W.C. Fields' disapproving mother- in- law in "Bank Dick".
I am doubly disappointed because I rented this movie based on the reputations of the executive producer (Redford) and the writer of the novel on which it was based (Hillerman).
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