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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I'm watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. This dramatisation is better than book, in my opinion.

There are few adaptations that I find better than the book. Which adaptations pull off this alchemy?

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over a year ago

im enjoying it more than the book too, found it a bit hard going...but eddie marsan is one of my favourite actors and brings it to life beautifully...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ermmmm cant think of any i prefer to the book version!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

gone with the wind is probably better than the book,though ive loved both since i was a child, but the film has a beauty not captured in the book..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stardust. The film is streets ahead of the book. But then again, I think Neil Gaimen is a hack writer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. This dramatisation is better than book, in my opinion.

There are few adaptations that I find better than the book. Which adaptations pull off this alchemy?

Gone Girl

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I'm watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. This dramatisation is better than book, in my opinion.

There are few adaptations that I find better than the book. Which adaptations pull off this alchemy?

Gone Girl"

I haven't read that nor seen the film.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Breakfast at Tiffany's.

That may be because I fell in love with the film, and Audrey, before I read the book though.

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

The da Vinci code and angels and demons were both better than the books they were based on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. This dramatisation is better than book, in my opinion.

There are few adaptations that I find better than the book. Which adaptations pull off this alchemy?

Gone Girl

I haven't read that nor seen the film.

I need to read the book - ps I love you

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"The da Vinci code and angels and demons were both better than the books they were based on. "

I preferred the books. Not great literature but they had pace.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I'm watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. This dramatisation is better than book, in my opinion.

There are few adaptations that I find better than the book. Which adaptations pull off this alchemy?

Gone Girl

I haven't read that nor seen the film.

I need to read the book - ps I love you"

That's very kind, especially after a very short meeting 15 months ago.

I haven't read ps I love You but I did enjoy the film.

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By *andom2chatMan
over a year ago

A Galaxy Far, Far Away & Spain

Can't really say I've preferred any film version over the original source material book. Different, yes as they are different mediums. A film can be affected by its actors, the script, the director, the elements it has time to portray, whereas a book depends on how the authors styling & pacing elicits the emotions & imagination of the reader. What images I conjure up will also be different from any other readers. So as much as I love a movie, a book will always be individual to my imagination.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. This dramatisation is better than book, in my opinion.

There are few adaptations that I find better than the book. Which adaptations pull off this alchemy?

The ONLY adaptations to have achieved this, in my opinion, are the James Bond films.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Can't really say I've preferred any film version over the original source material book. Different, yes as they are different mediums. A film can be affected by its actors, the script, the director, the elements it has time to portray, whereas a book depends on how the authors styling & pacing elicits the emotions & imagination of the reader. What images I conjure up will also be different from any other readers. So as much as I love a movie, a book will always be individual to my imagination. "

Absolutely.

My imagination for Strange & Norrell has been bettered by the screenwriters, actors, director and filming.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gotta love Audrey....eptomy of sartorial elegance

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. This dramatisation is better than book, in my opinion.

There are few adaptations that I find better than the book. Which adaptations pull off this alchemy?

Gone Girl

I haven't read that nor seen the film.

I need to read the book - ps I love you

That's very kind, especially after a very short meeting 15 months ago.

I haven't read ps I love You but I did enjoy the film.

Apparently the book is much better than the film

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

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"I'm watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. This dramatisation is better than book, in my opinion.

There are few adaptations that I find better than the book. Which adaptations pull off this alchemy?

Gone Girl"

I disagree but hard as if you've read the book, you know what's going to happen in the film (obviously!). Although I did enjoy film, but loved book!

For me... Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, this time saw film first though.

Mrs DDC

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm going to give this some thought because at the moment I can't think of any.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I'm watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. This dramatisation is better than book, in my opinion.

There are few adaptations that I find better than the book. Which adaptations pull off this alchemy?

Gone Girl

I disagree but hard as if you've read the book, you know what's going to happen in the film (obviously!). Although I did enjoy film, but loved book!

For me... Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, this time saw film first though.

Mrs DDC"

Because I saw the film(s now) I didn't bother to read the book.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. This dramatisation is better than book, in my opinion.

There are few adaptations that I find better than the book. Which adaptations pull off this alchemy?

Gone Girl

I disagree but hard as if you've read the book, you know what's going to happen in the film (obviously!). Although I did enjoy film, but loved book!

For me... Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, this time saw film first though.

Mrs DDC"

Seen the film and looking forward to the sequel

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

"The da Vinci code and angels and demons were both better than the books they were based on.

I preferred the books. Not great literature but they had pace.

Plot wise they are quite good.

Literature wise they are barely one step up from the 50 shades travesty

C...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The da Vinci code and angels and demons were both better than the books they were based on. "

Nah no way, the books were brilliant. The films were good though

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over a year ago

"I'm going to give this some thought because at the moment I can't think of any."

This too i cant think of any just now...

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Have to say the LotR films do good justice to a large and sometime unwieldy subject matter - all that bloody singing and poetry's been cut.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Have to say the LotR films do good justice to a large and sometime unwieldy subject matter - all that bloody singing and poetry's been cut."

I read them when I was a teenager and loved the fact that there was singing and poetry (albeit really long in places). I hadn't seen that before.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Two more which spring to mind....

American Psycho. I found the book quite unreadable in places.

Game of Thrones. The books are somewhat unwieldy and Martin rambles on in parts. The later books are very bad for it - particularly Storm of Swords.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Two more which spring to mind....

American Psycho. I found the book quite unreadable in places.

Game of Thrones. The books are somewhat unwieldy and Martin rambles on in parts. The later books are very bad for it - particularly Storm of Swords."

You're right about American Psycho - I hated the book. I didn't much enjoy the film either though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have to either just read the book or watch the film. If I do both its all spoilt for me. I may be weird...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Game of Thrones. The books are somewhat unwieldy and Martin rambles on in parts. The later books are very bad for it - particularly Storm of Swords."

I'd agree with this.

I'm struggling for a film though...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Game of Thrones. The books are somewhat unwieldy and Martin rambles on in parts. The later books are very bad for it - particularly Storm of Swords.

I'd agree with this.

I'm struggling for a film though... "

Let the right one in (Scandinavian vampire story). The book was good, but thr film was excellent.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pride and Prejudice - Matthew McFadyen/Keira Knightley. More to do with my reading it when I was a child I think. I think the film was less stuffy than the television series adaptation.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

There are few adaptations that I find better than the book. Which adaptations pull off this alchemy?

This has been bugging me all night, but I do love my books, and even where an adaptation is faithful to the book (eg Far From the Madding Crowd), you always miss little details simply due to the difference in pace, and you miss much of the lyricism of the language.

So I've had to cheat: 300 (the original, by Herodotus, lacks much of the theatre of the film)

And Cecil B de Mille's The Ten Commandments. (I found the book a little heavy in places)

Mr ddc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The film High-fidelity was on last night

Its an amazing film and brilliant book .

Girls if you really want to know how men work , may I suggest this film or read the book

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

50 Shades.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Godfather for me.

Mario Puzo's book was great but there were bits that didn't quite work for me.

(Lucy's moving on after Sonny's death)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The mist

Frank Darabont had shown he understood what it took to bring King to life with Shawshank and Green Mile but the twist he adds at the end took this story to a whole new level of horror

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The mist

Frank Darabont had shown he understood what it took to bring King to life with Shawshank and Green Mile but the twist he adds at the end took this story to a whole new level of horror"

Yea, quite brutal!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. This dramatisation is better than book, in my opinion.

There are few adaptations that I find better than the book. Which adaptations pull off this alchemy?

Bladerunner was far superior to the book it was based on - Phillip K Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"ermmmm cant think of any i prefer to the book version!

Me either

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jaws. The film is nothing like the book. And all the better for it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Books are almost always better than films...AND you can always stand on a book to reach the top shelf of the cupboard where I keep throwing the packs of biscuits I buy so that they're out of my immediate reach when I get them home

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I have to either just read the book or watch the film. If I do both its all spoilt for me. I may be weird...

That doesn't sound weird at all. If I really like a book and think that no one could re-interpret it in a fitting way I won't watch the adaptation. If I watch the file/adaptation then I won't read the book.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Sound of Music.

Some of the songs were lovely.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have to either just read the book or watch the film. If I do both its all spoilt for me. I may be weird...

Are you really me in disguise?

On the few occasions where I've broken that rule I've always been disappointed.

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By *BWCockloverCouple
over a year ago

Bangor

the only film i have ever thought was better than the book was...One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest...fantastic....

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