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The best book to film adaptations ever?

Next month sees the release of chick flick Nights in Rodanthe, adapted from a book written by the same chap who wrote ‘The Notebook’ - Nicholas Sparks - and equally brilliant!

The film brings together Diane Lane and Richard Gere. Lane stars as Adrienne Willis, a woman with her life in chaos, who retreats to the tiny coastal town of Rodanthe, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. Here she hopes to find the tranquillity she so desperately needs to rethink the conflicts surrounding her, a wayward husband who has asked to come home, and a teenaged daughter who resents her every decision. But almost as soon as Adrienne gets to Rodanthe, a major storm is forecast and a guest named Dr. Paul Flanner (Gere) arrives.

To celebrate the release of the film, the producers have put together their Top Ten book to film adaptations:

1. Lord of the Rings

2. Atonement

3. The Notebook

4. Harry Potter

5. The Chronicles of Narnia

6. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

7. A Clockwork Orange

8. Pride and Prejudice

9. Fight Club

10. Silence of the Lambs

We want to know what you think. Do you agree with the selections? What do you think are the best book to film adaptations of all time?

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09:28, 02 Jun 2009Comment
Andrew DaglishAndrew Daglish
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V for Vendetta

I'd expect comic books to adapt well to the big screen, but I've usually been disappointed Most adaptations haven't started with a given story, but have been specially written for the screen - and therein lies the problem.

An honourable exception to this is V for Vendetta. This is a dense story which typically takes me a weekend to read. The movie was an adaptation and not a transliteration and it had to be updated for changes in society over the intervening 20 years or so (e.g. the major radio stations no longer broadcast on medium wave in the UK!), but it was truly excellent and even inspired my wife to read the book.

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09:17, 02 Jun 2009Comment
Andrew DaglishAndrew Daglish
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Don't Panic

Ah, The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - possibly the most complex genesis of a story.

It started life as a series of radio plays and was quickly published as a series of books (to the best of my knowledge it's still the only trilogy in five parts) with some changes to the plot of the radio plays.

Then it all became a TV series, which is when I became interested and bought the books.

Douglas Adams sold the movie rights and there it sat for many years before he bought them back again, I believe.

The movie wasn't made until after his untimely death and again it incorporated several changes to the plots. Apparently he wanted the plot in each new medium to be slightly different.

The latter books went beyond the original radio plays and these were adapted and broadcast as radio plays a few years ago. The most obvious plot change here was the addition of a final scene, which Adams had deleted from the last book.

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23:15, 03 May 2009Comment
CenuryCenury
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I strongly agree

I think these are all good books made into good (or better) movies.

I agree with the selections... but 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy' was a awesome book, in my opinion the film had several different moments, and yes, It is more entertaining to watch it in motion rather than trying to imagine what the author wrote, the film didn't exceed to what I had expected.

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