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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:34:06 +0000

I can definitely relate to this post. I LOVE this novel very much that I read it in 2 days. Then, when I found out the Da Vinci Code novel will be made into a movie, I was rather skeptical. Like you said, we have our imagination of what this and that looks like, etc. For some reason, I had a specific actor in my mind for the role of Robert Langdon, who would be Harrison Ford. This simple thought of Tom Hanks playing Robert leaves me like, hmmm Tom Hanks?? That makes me very curious what he will be like in this film.

By: Liz Stone

Liz Stone — Tue, 30 May 2006 17:35:11 +0000

I think a lot of us don’t realize that many movies that have great box-office records were often based on novels. Think: Godfather I and II. Those two are probably the best movies of all time and they are based on Mario Puzo’s work. It’s easy to think that if a movie’s based on a novel, it’d automatically suck. I’m thinking of The Color Purple by Alice Walker. That movie *should* have won the Best Picture Oscar. It was remarkably acted and directed. The secret of a good screenplay adapted from a novel is to basically not follow exactly what happened in the book. Like Adapation, it became ingeniously dimensional. Imagine if the director adapted exactly as the book, it’d lose its creative luster.

Anyhoo, here’s a good-kinda-trashy website for movie trivia. Take the 10 question quiz.

http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz255ac90.html

By: Adam Stone

Adam Stone — Tue, 30 May 2006 15:02:38 +0000

Oh, and I forgot about Adaption, easily the most creative book adaption movie ever. It’s based on Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief. Watch it and you’ll gain appreciation for how original a book-turned-movie adaption can be (and how hard it is to make such a thing work).

By: Adam Stone

Adam Stone — Tue, 30 May 2006 15:01:02 +0000

yeah, that appeared to be the original controversy (and is still the overarching one) but it was overshadowed by that whole legal case (which was big news because of that original magdalene controversy). a controversial book, huh!

By: Adam Stone

Adam Stone — Tue, 30 May 2006 15:00:06 +0000

I really can’t think of a book-turned-movie that I’ve liked. I think the only one that I think did the book justice was The Client, also written by Grisham. Brad Renfro and Susan Sarandon delivered a great performance then.

Maybe Fight Club too? It was difficult to adapt the whole Tyler Durden-inside-one’s-mind thing, but they did a pretty good job.

Oh, and the worst movie adaption ever has to be Battle Royale. I read it for a book club and the movie just was horrible, horrible.

By: flyingduck

flyingduck — Tue, 30 May 2006 13:12:41 +0000

i thought the da vinci code was controversial because of its anti-catholicism and its epousing the fact that jesus himself married mary malgadene, not for the plagarism?

By: m

Fri, 26 May 2006 18:29:54 +0000

i read the entire lord of the rings series after i saw the first movie– it helped me understand the story better, esp after i discovered, while reading, that tolkien loved to go on for pages and pages describing the setting, background, etc. then when the 2nd and 3rd movies came out, i found they portrayed the books pretty well. granted, there were some things that had to be omitted from the script, but i believed they were good omissions. took me about 2 weeks to finish the whole set!

and yes, i LOVE the time traveler’s wife. so much that when i realized i had loaned the book to someone but couldn’t remember who, i went and bought another copy :) i hope the movie will be a good one….