Most accurate book to movie adaptation

[Linderbee]

Harry Potter thread led me to this...

I would say One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

To Kill A Mockingbird is another good one.

Feel free to throw in your favorite, as well, even if it wasn't particularly in line w/the book.

 

[Mulli]

The Dead Zone. Christopher Walken is awesome.

 

[Heucrazy]

The Lord of the Rings movies were almost spot on.

 

[D-Dogg]

I thought "A Time to Kill" was very close to the book.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

You know it just occured to me that they do sometimes do literal interpretations of a book. It's called Theater and no one watches it.

 

[Gaddabout]

To Kill A Mockingbird was an excellent adaptation and remains perhaps the most important movie of the 20th Century because of it. IMO, of course.

 

[outoftheashes]

The Green Mile

 

[FArting]

Because of Winn Dixie

Bridge to Terabithia

 

[Renz]

Harry Potter thread led me to this...

I would say One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

To Kill A Mockingbird is another good one.

Feel free to throw in your favorite, as well, even if it wasn't particularly in line w/the book.

The author of the novel, Ken Kesey, never liked the film because it wasn't narrated by the "Chief" character as the book was. Kesey also wanted Gene Hackman to play MacMurphy and not Jack Nicholson.

 

[Linderbee]

The author of the novel, Ken Kesey, never liked the film because it wasn't narrated by the "Chief" character as the book was. Kesey also wanted Gene Hackman to play MacMurphy and not Jack Nicholson.

Although that is a pretty big difference; I think it would be hard to "narrate" that book on film. I thought the story was told almost flawlessly.

 

[Renz]

Although that is a pretty big difference; I think it would be hard to "narrate" that book on film. I thought the story was told almost flawlessly.

I never read the book, so I'll take your word for it.

 

[Linderbee]

I never read the book, so I'll take your word for it.

well, since the Indian is mute, (or at least pretends to be deaf & mute) it would have to be in voice-over, and the movie (imo) would lose so much if it had a narrator voice throughout it.

 

[Stout]

The Lord of the Rings movies were almost spot on.

Except for the painful moments where Peter Jackson obviously missed the point.

Now, if you say Fellowship of the Ring itself, then sure.

 

[Heucrazy]

Except for the painful moments where Peter Jackson obviously missed the point.

Now, if you say Fellowship of the Ring itself, then sure.

That's why I said almost.

 

[CardFan67]

Stephen King's Pet Cemetary was pretty accurate for me.

Neither were spectacular but the film version matched what I got from the book pretty close to 'dead on'

 

[Chaplin]

Stephen King's Pet Cemetary was pretty accurate for me.

Neither were spectacular but the film version matched what I got from the book pretty close to 'dead on'

Misery was fairly close except for a few small details (like breaking the ankle with a sledgehammer rather than cutting it off).

 

[se7en]

Misery was fairly close except for a few small details (like breaking the ankle with a sledgehammer rather than cutting it off).

I disagree. A major part of the book had to do with the book he was forced to write, which was never presented in the movie. Also, my favorite part of the book was often what he was “thinking”. Very funny stuff that I felt should have been narrated.

 

[Hollywood]

I don't think I have ever seen a movie follow the book as closly as the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

 

[D-Dogg]

The Orchid Thief




j/k.

 

[Stout]

That's why I said almost.

Right on!

 

[Chaplin]

The Orchid Thief




j/k.

 

[Pariah]

300

 

[ozzfloyd]

The Bourne Identity

Not the Matt Damon blasphemy which bares little resemblance to the book but the 1988 TV miniseries. Pretty much spot on to the book. Too bad it was a made for TV movie, would have made a great feature film with some slight recasting and a bigger budget.

 

[D-Dogg]

The Bourne Identity

Not the Matt Damon blasphemy which bares little resemblance to the book but the 1988 TV miniseries. Pretty much spot on to the book. Too bad it was a made for TV movie, would have made a great feature film with some slight recasting and a bigger budget.

Oh, funny. My jaw dropped until you said something other than the Matt Damon vehicle oddly titled after a book it has nothing to do with.


And those books were freaking awe-some.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Except for the painful moments where Peter Jackson obviously missed the point.

Now, if you say Fellowship of the Ring itself, then sure.

Fellowship had huge gaps missing and was completely hated on by the fanboys.