/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4017143]

ITT: Cases where the film is better the book

[Anonymous No.4017147]

Drive

[Anonymous No.4017154]

The Game by Nial Strauss

[Anonymous No.4017183]

pic unrelated

[Anonymous No.4017185]

Anything directed by Kubrick except Lolita.

[Anonymous No.4017191]

>>4017185
Eyes Wide Shut might also be an exception actually

[Anonymous No.4017196]

>>4017191
Eh.

[Anonymous No.4017199]

>>4017196
I take back this eh.

[Anonymous No.4017200]

>>4017196
I haven't read the book it's based on, but isn't it considered a classic of early 20th century literature?

[Anonymous No.4017203]

the godfather

Also, all the LOTR books. Those sucked

[Anonymous No.4017206]

>>4017200
Yeah, I fucked up on understanding this thread. Too much Pain Relief PM.

[Anonymous No.4017227]

Great gatsby

[Anonymous No.4017232]

>>4017227
I hope you're not serious.

[Anonymous No.4017238]

Children of Men
Bourne Identity by about a thousand
I might get flamed for this but Blade Runner
There's probably more but I can't think good

[Anonymous No.4017261]

>>4017203
The movies were worse

[Anonymous No.4017265]

>>4017261
Well they both sucked. For,me at least, Tolkien had a tendency to ramble about,useless shit. So damn annoying.

[Anonymous No.4017267]

Blade Runner > do androids dream

[Anonymous No.4017274]

Children of Men
The Assassination of Jesse James by etc.

[Anonymous No.4017298]

The Silence of the Lambs

[Anonymous No.4017303]

Rosemary's Baby

[Anonymous No.4017522]

>>4017143
.
Rosemary's Baby is certainly a good example of a really top-class movie made from a so-so horror-thriller novel. Polanski pretty much pulled it off again a few years later with The Tenant, although Topor's novel had been a work much closer to Polanski's own sensibility than Levin's. In both movies, however, Polanski was able to use the unique material presence of talented actors - the toweringly irksome Ruth Gordon, Adjani at the apex of her loveliness - to add layers of richness not in the books.

John Huston too, whom Polanski used as an actor in Chinatown, would not have needed to fear comparison with the younger Pole if only he had stuck to adapting fine "minor" novels. His Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Wise Blood are quite as good as their literary templates, since actors as great as Bogart or Dourif more than compensate for whatever is lost in the transition from text to film. Even more egregiously than Polanski, though - whose Tess is certainly no improvement on Hardy - he had a tendency to bite off ridiculously more than he - or indeed any film-maker - could possibly chew. Moby Dick was an attempt to film the pretty much unfilmable and The Dead was an attempt to film a text that nobody should even THINK about trying to film, since it is probably the finest single piece of short-to-medium-length prose ever composed in the English language.

[Anonymous No.4017530]

[Anonymous No.4017535]

Into the Wild.

[Anonymous No.4017538]

american psycho

[Anonymous No.4017539]

Fight Club!

[Anonymous No.4017545]

I'm gonna say The DaVinci Code because at least the film had Paul Bettany going for it.

[Anonymous No.4017565]

>>4017143
Hunger games

[Anonymous No.4017584]

>>4017538
The movie sucks as much as the book, but at least the book has gore

[Anonymous No.4017599]

>>4017238
You're wrong about Bladerunner.

[Anonymous No.4017602]

Having read a page of the terrible book that is eragon, I'm gonna say that the movie has the be better by virtue of being shorter. jesus christ that guy can't write

[Anonymous No.4017603]

never read The Godfather, but isn't it just pulp?

[Anonymous No.4017607]

Clifford the Big Red Dog

[Anonymous No.4017609]

[Anonymous No.4017613]

The Hours
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[Anonymous No.4017614]

>>4017584

The movie is hilarious whereas the book is just merely ironic.

[Anonymous No.4017616]

2001: A Space Odyssey

[Anonymous No.4017617]

The hobbit

[Anonymous No.4017618]

>>4017603
Yes, just like the movie

[Anonymous No.4017653]

>>4017616
My man.

[Anonymous No.4017661]

>>4017143
Titus by Shakespeare, directed by Julie Taymor.
The play Titus Andronicus is a good read, but that was a well done movie and very entertaining. It's very dark as well.

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/titus/full.html

[Anonymous No.4017664]

There Will Be Blood.

[Anonymous No.4017671]

>>4017298
NOOOOOO!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.4017672]

>>4017664
The film is only loosely based off the source material. (That is, OIL!)

[Anonymous No.4017682]

No Country For Old Men. What a performance by Javier Bardem.

[None !!lZetafI6z8s No.4017686]

the notebook

[None !!lZetafI6z8s No.4017687]

also roadside picnic / tarkovsky's stalker

[None !!lZetafI6z8s No.4017690]

and probably solaris too, i haven't read it but i've read other stuff by stanislaw lem and he seems awful

[Anonymous No.4018007]

The girl with the dragon tattoo.
so much

[Anonymous No.4018035]

donnie darko

[Anonymous No.4018036]

>>4017614
>missed the point of american psycho
you must be american
only an american could miss the blatant critique of the culture they live in

[Anonymous No.4018037]

>>4018007
what? Absolutely not.

[Anonymous No.4018043]

You got that right. People who are way into that book have some serious mental problems. I'm all for writers finding a voice, but 300+ pages of tedious detail regarding 80's mens fashion, horrific ways to torture women and of course waxing philosophic on shit music....no. The movie was better.

[Anonymous No.4018048]

>>4018043
>People who are way into that book have some serious mental problems.
Yes, as opposed to the movie. Oh wait. Literally the only reason anybody enjoys the movie is because of the gore, and the story is stripped of 99% of its original meaning :)

[Anonymous No.4018089]

>>4018048
So 2 hours of gore, sex and horribleness as opposed to reading 300+ pages of even more hardcore gore, sex and horribleness. How exactly did the movie strip away 99% of the stories original meaning?

[Anonymous No.4018117]

>>4018037
The book is 80% about a self-insert protagonist eating sandwiches, running and getting laid. You can feel the stink of Larsson's middle age crisis.
The movie cuts out that drivel and gets to the plot. Besides, it's Fincher doing what he does best: fucked up characters doing fucked up shit.

[Anonymous No.4018166]

Fever Pitch

[Tallis !!DxrlCMGAS2J No.4018176]

:^)

[Anonymous No.4018192]

>>4018176
b8

[Anonymous No.4018204]

>>4018048
>Literally the only reason anybody enjoys the movie is because of the gore
no don't be fucking ridiculous
The movie's a black comedy on American social mores that happens to use extreme violence to get its point across, like the book. The few people who watch it purely for the gore are probably psychopaths themselves
The only way it's especially reduced of its meaning is how Bateman's monologues being curtailed thoroughly so that the film isn't way too long when his bizarre eye for detail and incapability to sort information by relevance gives the reader a great insight to his mindset, but his distinctive voice is still there

[Anonymous No.4018216]

>>4017603
I did when I was like 14, and yeah pretty much
The film's quite faithful but it's a vast improvement

[Anonymous No.4018269]

What's the point of this thread ? You can't compare the quality of a film and a book. Literature and Cinema may be linked, but you don't appreciate the same way a film and a book.

[Anonymous No.4018554]

>>4017682
I'll second this.

The book is essentially a screenplay anyway.

[Anonymous No.4018563]

[Anonymous No.4018573]

>>4017682
>Javier Bardem.
They don't call him 'the lobster' for nothing.

[Anonymous No.4018589]

>>4018269

Thank you! Im glad someone said this by the time i got to the end. I Wholeheartedly agree.

[Anonymous No.4018591]

>>4018269
Thank you! Im glad someone said this by the time i got to the end. I Wholeheartedly agree.

[Anonymous No.4018593]

>>4018269

Thank you! Im glad someone said this by the time i got to the end. I Wholeheartedly agree.

[Anonymous No.4018599]

>>4017238
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was 100x better than Blade Runner

[Anonymous No.4018611]

>>4018269
Sure you can. You can't say that "The camera work in this book is terrible", but you can very well compare the quality of a film as a film vs. a the quality of the book it's based on as a book. And there are elements like ability to convey emotions or themes that overlaps.

I'm trying to come up with an example, but I don't watch a lot of movies. Or any at all, really.

[Anonymous No.4018615]

MASH
Jaws
The French Connection
Prince of the City

[lemasterofsage No.4018618]

>>4018599
Bewildered, a glass jaw sings
'Brimming, brimming, a single drop too much!'
Reduced to dust, lifted to the skies, now following the northern winds
Lost at sea we will find it, comforting our soul with hopes of salvation, as we pray for release
And at one fell swoop it saves us, as we spill over the table, dripping onto the floor
A single drop too much

[Anonymous No.4018647]

>>4017661
yea but Titus Andronicus is a play, it's SUPPOSED to be performed

[Anonymous No.4018667]

>>4017565
I choose you as troll tribute

[Anonymous No.4018669]

>>4017602
Oh god... youre so wrong. Imagine how bad Eragon is, THE MOVIE IS WORSE. Its so bad I cant even think of anything to compare it to.

[Anonymous No.4018686]

Mysterious Skin for sure.

JGL always delivers

[Anonymous No.4018688]

>>4017599
>>4018599
I think the Ultimate Cut, or the most recent one whatever it is called, is at least equal to the book.

[Anonymous No.4018690]

>>4018669
Avatar the air bender

[Anonymous No.4018700]

Being There

[Anonymous No.4018727]

>>4017617
nah m8 the movie was bulshit

[Anonymous No.4018729]

the odyssey

[Anonymous No.4019262]

I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned.
If you disagree you're an edgy cunt

[Anonymous No.4019331]

Harry Potter

[Anonymous No.4019489]

>>4018599
I read the book, watched the movie, few strong points on the book, solid movie, movie was better

[Anonymous No.4019550]

Pretty much all Stephen King

[Anonymous No.4019551]

silence of the lambs. Depends if you saw the movie before the book.

[Anonymous No.4019555]

In my opinion, The Lord of the rings

[Anonymous No.4019562]

I thought the 2005 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice beat the book by a narrow margin.

[Anonymous No.4019578]

>>4018599
>My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

Ok buddy

[Anonymous No.4019579]

>>4019578
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.4019585]

Jurassic park

[Anonymous No.4019595]

>>4019578
>>4019579
PKD is dead

[Anonymous No.4019658]

>>4019595
So?

[Anonymous No.4019709]

Wanted, better than the comic book source according to the author of the comic

[Anonymous No.4019713]

>>4018036
Not him, but that doesn't mean the film wasn't also hilarious

[Anonymous No.4019729]

>>4019709
Yeah, the same can be said for Kick Ass.

Also comics/manga are NOT literater, and they are not the same as illustrated books. They are a separate medium entirely

[Anonymous No.4019730]

>>4019262

But that movie was terrible.

[Anonymous No.4019734]

>>4019730
Nah it was actually pretty good.

[Anonymous No.4020272]

>>4017303
>Rosemary's Baby
I disagree...

[Anonymous No.4020277]

>>4019262
i can see that you might like the movie better,
but it's very different from the book.

[Anonymous No.4020627]

>>4017143
interesting fact- not one line of dialog from the movie was taken from the book. I think this is a rare case where both the book and movie are masterpieces in their own right

[Anonymous No.4020793]

the notebook. the real book at old people french kissing and it was just terrible, at the least the movie is good

[Anonymous No.4021072]

Fightclub
A Shawshank Redemption
A Clockwork Orange