Love those two films, and the actors you refer to. The first film actually inspired me to visit Aix-en-Provence for a weekend!
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[Film] Film As Good As The Book
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Love those two films, and the actors you refer to. The first film actually inspired me to visit Aix-en-Provence for a weekend!
So HE was responsible for the 1960s bouffant hairdos and makeup on the women, the helicopter that lands in The Schloss Adler that wasn't made until after the war, the 1950s era bus they escape in, the truth drug that wasn't in use until the 1950s...
And your point is?
Razzoo
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It's a good film but I enjoyed the book a lot, once I had got into the Edinburgh phonetic writing style. I was about halfway through until I cottoned on to what a Weedgie was. If I recall rightly Weedgie was usually followed by bastirt.
Pevenseagull
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The two adaptations of Graham Greene's, 'The Quiet American' are of some interest.
The 50s one is shit as the makers utterly corrupted the story. The 2001 adaptation was a fine film that got buried due to events as questioning American foreign policy wasn't box office magic all of a sudden ... Or indeed ever.
Michael Caine is absolutely superb. Going back to the book after seeing it made the book better.
The 50s one is shit as the makers utterly corrupted the story. The 2001 adaptation was a fine film that got buried due to events as questioning American foreign policy wasn't box office magic all of a sudden ... Or indeed ever.
Michael Caine is absolutely superb. Going back to the book after seeing it made the book better.
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Skaville
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Really? I’d rate the book in my top three of all time so didn’t want to soil it by watching a movie
Skaville
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Yep, at just 108 pages, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is more of a novella. Film infinitely better.
Another King one would be the Running Man, although I haven’t watched it since I was a teenager.
And there in a nutshell, is why the whole topic is subjective.
I am a huge lover of the books.
All the hobbit books ‘do it’ for me, as did the films.
LoTR books were a massive part of my youth and got me into books.
There are faults (rather missing detail) with the film but I enjoyed them all immensely.
Then again, I am a big Tolkien fan.
I am willing to overlook the inaccuracies of the middle earth lore based on the fact that the films worked as well as the books for me.
nickbrighton
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i recently rewatched the LOTR films, and once again loved them, yes there were lots of missing pieces (crickhollow, tom bombadil, scourging of the shire to name a few) some big plot changes (frodo and sam being taken to Osgiliath, ) but it did tighten the narrative and actually made a bit more sense if you like. They remain far and away my favourite films
The hobbit films though- I just didnt like them, perhaps I will give them another chance and rerwatch them all over a wet week when I cant get out
I think pert of the problem with the Hobbit adaptation was expectations were so high after the LOTR films, and they then suffered by comparison
Im looking forward to the forthcoming series on Apple tv. It wii be interesting to see someone elses take on the Tolkien World, and see a period that hasnt been shown on screen at all before, and where the story isnt anywhere as well known, or even laid out by tolkien other than in a very superficial way
EDIT: It Amazon not Apple!
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I thought Amazon were doing the Tolkien series not apple TV ?
nickbrighton
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You are quite correct, it is Amazon, not sure why I put Apple tbh!!
