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What are You Currently Reading? (pg. 10)
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| ZeJayMan |
| quote: | Originally posted by Rainborn
Good stuff! I love Greece! |
I'm about halfway through the book and it's one of the toughest things i've had to read so far.
Props to the Chomsky reader. I've just finished Imperial Ambitions, the guy is a genius. |
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| Omega_M |
Finished reading this book some time ago. Very interesting.
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| Krypton |
Right wing politics.
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| Boomer187 |
im preparing my lecture. |
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| Demoted |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
Right wing politics.
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I'd have to be masochistic to even touch that. |
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| kush paintings |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
i disagree. i mean it's a great concept in theory, and i always get excited when i find out that one of my favorite books is being made into a movie... but 9 times out of 10, they just suck.
unless the director and cast are amazing, i'm usually just really unimpressed by movies based on books. too many of them get the "Hollywood" treatment and they just lose the feel of the original story.
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For the most part, I agree with you. However, I think there are a lot of solid adaptations, especially as of late. I think one of the best has been Christopher Nolan (all of his Hollywood releases: Memento, The Prestige, the Batman series have been adaptations). Sin City is another example of a great adaptation, and a ballsy one at that. You also have the fantasy novel adaptations: Lord of the Rings series and Chornicles of Narnia, both effectively done.
I think the difficulty in adapting some of these books to the screen could arise for two reasons. First, often with a book you really can get in the characters head, hear their thoughts. With a movie you can't, aside from voice over's which must be used sparingly. So, while you may have a book that has excellent characterization, this could be all internaly happening and therefore would make for a piss-poor movie. Second, the story can be too "big" for a movie. I think this was demonstrated with the Da Vinci Code, as there was so much action that they tried to condense into the movie, there was absolutely 0 depth to it.
All that being said, I think with the number of successful and failed adaptations,you will probably always be wrong if you were to say adaptations aren't effective. |
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| miamitrance04 |
| the last book i read was "Interview with a Vampire" (Anne Rice) it was one of my favorite books i have read, 1000x better than the movie. |
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| tctitan |
| re-reading the wheel of time series by robert jordan. |
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| Demoted |
| quote: | Originally posted by tctitan
re-reading the wheel of time series by robert jordan. |
Oh man, my brother 'gasmed over those books back in the day. I tried to read the first one and then gave up by page 20. |
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| emc^2 |
Just finished:
...and now reading:
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| Allied Nations |
have read both of these a million times and will probably readem both a million more.
Recently picked up another copy of tortilla flat, i left my copy in India. :) |
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