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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 22, 2018 23:54:08 GMT
The one I always think of is The Natural (1984) which most sports fans love and is nothing in sensibility or ominous tone like the book and which ends in a rather great and downbeat way, the Roy Hobbs character strikes out, everyone assumes he took the money (he didn't), rather he just fails in the book. What are some of these for you? Use your judgment on spoilers...... |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jul 23, 2018 0:01:00 GMT
John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath completely omits the last chunk of the book with its downbeat ending...
I haven't read the book, but from what I've heard, Annihilation from earlier this year is apparently quite different from the book. In an interview, Garland said he only read it once and adapted it from memory.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 23, 2018 0:07:27 GMT
A Clockwork Orange is a textbook example.
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Post by stephen on Jul 23, 2018 0:28:59 GMT
The Dark Tower comes to mind.
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Post by Viced on Jul 23, 2018 0:48:24 GMT
The end of Perrotta's Election is waaaaay different than the movie. Mr. M gets back together with his wife, has a baby, and stays in the same town and works at a car dealership. Tracy goes to visit him, takes a test drive, and asks him to sign her yearbook or something. It works in the book, but I'm not sure how it would have worked on film... Payne's changes worked well. |
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Post by IceTruckDexter on Jul 23, 2018 0:58:06 GMT
The usurpers David and Dan butchering of Stannis Baratheon.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2018 1:00:53 GMT
First thing I thought of was My Sister’s Keeper. In the book, the sister without cancer dies in a car accident, but she survived in the movie and the sister with cancer dies despite recovering in the book. I remember fans getting pissed over that. |
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Post by moonman157 on Jul 23, 2018 1:40:10 GMT
A Clockwork Orange is a textbook example. how |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 23, 2018 3:19:15 GMT
A Clockwork Orange is a textbook example. how The movie leaves out Burgess's final chapter about Alex settling down and becoming a productive member of society, essentially treating his violence like an adolescent phase. I know Burgess came to feel negatively about the film because it was so fatalistic. I don't remember when it was written, but in his forward to the Audible version his thoughts about both the novel and the film were pretty negative. |
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Post by moonman157 on Jul 23, 2018 4:16:33 GMT
The movie leaves out Burgess's final chapter about Alex settling down and becoming a productive member of society, essentially treating his violence like an adolescent phase. I know Burgess came to feel negatively about the film because it was so fatalistic. I don't remember when it was written, but in his forward to the Audible version his thoughts about both the novel and the film were pretty negative. This is a pretty common misconception. The final chapter of the novel was not included in the American publication until the 80s, Kubrick wrote his script based upon that release. And it's fortunate he made that decision because that epilogue in Burgess's book is, I would argue, among the worst chapters ever written and is one of the most stunningly self-destructive acts I've ever come across in any work of art. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 23, 2018 5:40:05 GMT
The movie leaves out Burgess's final chapter about Alex settling down and becoming a productive member of society, essentially treating his violence like an adolescent phase. I know Burgess came to feel negatively about the film because it was so fatalistic. I don't remember when it was written, but in his forward to the Audible version his thoughts about both the novel and the film were pretty negative. This is a pretty common misconception. The final chapter of the novel was not included in the American publication until the 80s, Kubrick wrote his script based upon that release. And it's fortunate he made that decision because that epilogue in Burgess's book is, I would argue, among the worst chapters ever written and is one of the most stunningly self-destructive acts I've ever come across in any work of art. Yeah I know that chapter wasn't included in the American publication and Burgess was pissed about that. Agree that Kubrick definitely made the right call not to include it. It doesn't make sense in the book and it would have made even less sense in the film. |
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Jul 23, 2018 16:28:51 GMT
The Shining (Stephen King), without the shadow of a doubt. I read the book after seeing the film, and I was shocked to find out that Kubrick had changed so many things. The ending is completely different in both. They even killed one of the supporting characters in the film, and he does not die in the book!  |
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jul 23, 2018 17:06:35 GMT
It is absolutely incredible how sternly anti-vigilante and full of depth Death Wish is as a novel considering every film adaptation has been the opposite.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jul 23, 2018 17:20:05 GMT
The Hobbit. lol. While the basic plot is all there... there's also a good 6 hours of additives. I truly don't think you'll find a movie that is more different from the book while also still being faithful to the book its based on.
Another one, that while I know why they did it, is Ricki Tarr is way different in the novel than the film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The mini-series does a really good job with him but the film is quite different from how I read him as.
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Post by AKenjiB on Jul 23, 2018 17:38:48 GMT
I’ve only read Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity, not the follow ups, but basically the only thing the film has in common with the book is the basic premise and the names of some of the characters. But the characters are completely different. Antagonistic characters in the film are more sympathetic in the book, characters who live in the book die in the film and vice versa, and the book’s main antagonist isn’t in the film at all.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Jul 23, 2018 20:26:38 GMT
Jaws - Cutting out the mafia and affair subplots, was to the film's benefit.
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