Books Adapted for Films in which Changes were made to story and characters that you actually liked

[BAYLOR]

I'm in agreement here. I tried to read the book but it bored the pants off me. Gave up after about 40 pages.

I tried Foucaults Pendulum twice and could get into it.

 

[tobl]

I tried Foucaults Pendulum twice and could get into it.

of course not. you had to choose going right or left

 

[BAYLOR]

of course not. you had to choose going right or left

I wish id though of that one. (LOL)

 

[KiraAnn]

Re: Blade Runner, I never did figure out what the title referred to. I was expecting something about underground medical activity like the short story of the same name - not by PKD.

Re: Starship Troopers, I detested the movie and liked the book. The supposed satire was just abusive sledge hammering. Just for giggles, I had my eldest read the book after he saw the movie and he preferred the book. Later, he found that anime series - the CGI - and liked it way better than the movie as well.

 

[BAYLOR]

The 53 version has a special place in my heart.

I wasn't too keen on the '05 version when first released, but on re-watching I think it's a fine movie with some truly haunting moments.

The 05 version Tripods were impressive.

You might find War of the World Goliath to be of interest. It's a sequel to wells book and it's quite good.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

Re: Blade Runner, I never did figure out what the title referred to. I was expecting something about underground medical activity like the short story of the same name - not by PKD.

Blade Runner was the slang name for someone who hunts replicants.

From the opening crawl:

"Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced Robot evolution
into the NEXUS phase - a being virtually identical to a human - known as a Replicant...

The NEXUS 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal
in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them.

Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and
colonization of other planets.

After a bloody mutiny by a NEXUS 6 combat team in an Off-world colony,
Replicants were declared illegal on earth - under penalty of death.

Special police squads - BLADE RUNNER UNITS - had orders to shoot to kill, upon
detection, any trespassing Replicant."

But yes, it was taken from William Burroughs and used mainly because it sounded cool. I guess there's a metaphor in there somewhere about being on the edge of life or something but it's not particularly clear.

 

[KGeo777]

I guess there's a metaphor in there somewhere about being on the edge of life or something but it's not particularly clear.

I thought it was a guy running with a blade.
He is such a bad ass---he's running with a blade...but I like the idea of a giant sword and Deckard is running along the edge of it.

 

[The Ace]

The Dark is Rising/ The Seeker.

Christopher Eccleston (The Black Rider): "When I read the book..."

Interviewer: "You must've been the only one on that project who did !"

The book was so badly mangled that it lead the elderly Susan Cooper to the brink of suicide, until the backlash from three generations of infuriated fans. It struck me personally because this sequence was the, "Harry Potter," of its day. I was one of the fans who waited breathlessly for, "The Grey King," and, "Silver on the Tree." (Much the same way as my parents' generation awaited, "The Chronicles of Narnia.")

The charming book with the large, chaotic, but close-knit Stanton family, the Buckinghamshire countryside, and the record-breaking winter that precedes 13 year-old Will's transformation into the last of the Old Ones, becomes a transplanted American family, with a bullying older brother, a brattish younger sister (Will is the youngest in the book, Mary is motherly, and Gwen is bossy), and - of course - Will is no longer the seventh son of a seventh son (His eldest brother, Tom was stillborn) because the director couldn't understand the reference, and didn't think his audience would either.

Of course, it didn't help that everyone decided it was a rip-off of Harry Potter, despite the first book, "Over Sea, Under Stone," being written before JK Rowling was born, and "The Dark is Rising," and, "Greenwich," being published before she was out of nappies.

 

[Guttersnipe]

I think he had a bigger part in the book, and, if so, I'm glad Luca Brasi has a shorter role in The Godfather. There are probably a lot of other things, but I can't recall much about the novel, as I read it over 15 years ago.

 

[Ray Zdybrow]

Stephen King's "Misery" is a great read, for many reasons, but Kathy Bates brought the character of Annie Wilkes to life in a way that King failed to do.