Here we go again. While we will get to more "serious" topics like school stuff, let's roll with another fun top ten (or top three or five or whatever). Here is my list of great movie adaptations of written works. I was inspired by seeing a trailer for The Hunger Games, which I can't wait for. Yeah I guess that reveals that I love YA stuff and, once again, any novel with a cool woman running around kicking butt is good with me. So my list:
Kubrick's The Shining (King). Never let King have a hand in adapting his own works. when great directors grab hold of his stuff it works.
Brannagh's Othello. I'm cheating here because this is already drama, and so "easier" to adapt than prose.
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (Dick's Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep)
Saul Van Zantz's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey). While the novel may be better it's hard to argue with how great this movie is.
Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy (Tolkien). It makes me cry and roar at the same time.
The original Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (Dahl)
Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption (from King's Different Seasons)
Deliverance (Dickey). Captures the book pretty well.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway). Really this is all about Ingrid Bergman. I mean who wouldn't fight the fascists for "the Maria"?
The Wizard of Oz. (Baum) So much better than the book.
That's that!
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