Tired of hearing about "the book was better"? In this report you will find a must-have library of literary adaptations.
Following my previous Post, here you will find the following 5 movies based on novels:
6. Carrie (1976)
The book: Stephen King makes his debut as a novelist by telling us the sad story of a telekinetic quinceanera.
The film: Brian De Palma breaks the pattern in the horror genre, helped by a Sissy Spacek who gets the part despite being in his thirties.
The big difference: King structured his novel in an epistolary way, something that (obviously) is not noticed in the film.
7. The Butterfly's Tongue (1999)
The book: Always attached to rural Galicia, Manuel Rivas tells us about the work of a master in the days of the Republic.
The film: With Fernando Fernan Gomez in his last great role, Jose Luis Cuerda achieves a charming film with no bragging rights. The ending is to cry.
The big difference: The original is a short story, so Rafael Azcona integrated other stories from the book ?Que me quieres, amor? into his plot.
8. Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest (1975)
The book: Novelist Ken Kesey, who had been an orderly in a psychiatric hospital, made a best seller with this novel that he wrote (they say) up to his eyebrows in LSD.
The film: The second film in history to win all five major Oscar categories, including Best Leading Actor for an unleashed Jack Nicholson.
The big difference: The final fate of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher, also with an Oscar) is less gruesome in the film.
9. Killing a Mockingbird (1962)
The book: The shy Harper Lee only wrote one novel. But what a novel: this autobiographical and unforgettable tale about his childhood in the Deep South.
The film: Directed by Robert Mulligan, with a cathedral Gregory Peck in the role of lawyer Atticus Finch, an American hero.
The big difference: Many of the children's subplots disappeared to make room for a certain trial...
10. Jurassic Park (1993)
The book: Michael Crichton convinces us that resurrecting dinosaurs is possible. The problem: that the giant lizards have their own ideas and bad luck.
The movie: An epic blockbuster courtesy of the king of epic blockbusters: Steven Spielberg.
The big difference: Jeff Goldblum's character is the result of the merger between two characters in the book. Also, there is a subplot missing about a Procompsognatus fugitive dinosaur.
