I thought it would be fun to start some discussions from a family card game, Movie Talk, which I never got to play with my family. The seventh card I pulled said:
“Many movies are based on books. Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code starred Tom Hanks. Babe was based on Dick King-Smith’s book Babe the Gallant Pig. Frank Herbert’s Dune was made into a film twenty years after the book was published.
What are you favorite films based on books? What book would you like to see made into a film?”
There are a lot of movies made based on books that I love, so this was a pretty hard list to narrow down for myself. I was able to narrow it down to two that I love for different reasons.
When I think of the most literal translation of a book to film adaptation, my favorite example is the movie Holes. I think the main reason this adaptation works so well, and translates so directly is because Louis Sachar wrote both the novel and the screenplay. There are some things here and there that are different, but for the most part they’re very similar. I also have a pretty special place for this movie in my heart. I love all of the actors in it and I still have the whole D Tent Rap from the end credits memorized.
What I would probably call the best film adaptation of a novel is Jurassic Park. I may be speaking from a bias, because I read the book after I watched the movie, but I think the film adaptation of Jurassic Park surpasses the novel. The novel is amazing, but I like the characterizations from the movie better. But I do wish we had gotten to see the river raft scene with the T Rex in the movie. Oh well. Maybe next Jurassic Park movie.
Honorable mentions: The Harry Potter movies always meant a lot to me when I was younger, and they still do. I think they’re some pretty great adaptations, but I haven’t read the books past 4, so I can’t really speak on the rest. Let the Right One In is also a great movie adapted from a book.
As for a book I would like to see adapted into a movie, when I was a kid Nancy Farmer’s The House of the Scorpion was always my favorite book, and I would like to see it done justice on screen.
TLDR: What are your favorite films based on books? What book would you like to see made into a film?
Submitted July 29, 2020 at 04:48AM by DParks247 https://ift.tt/2DcxXdZ
