The 50 best movies based on novels - Part 4
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:
16. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The book: As encyclopaedic as it is in a Russian novel, Boris Pasternaknos' billet describes the world of Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), a doctor and poet whose life changes forever after the revolution.
The Film: Director David Lean took many liberties with the original text to make the eighth highest-grossing film in history. Epic.
The Big Difference: As we have noted, Lean took a lot of liberties with the novel.
16. The Diary of Bridget Jones (2001)
The book: The Fictitious Diary of a Neurotic English Woman, written by Helen Fielding
The film: Light, light comedy, with Renee Zellweger putting herself in Bridget's skin and complexes. Colin Firth and Hugh Grant put the romantic touch
The big difference: He adapts the original novel almost point by point, without major changes.
17. Value of Law (2010)
The book: Published in installments in 1968, Charles Portis' novel tells the story of Mattie Ross, a 14-year-old girl obsessed with avenging her father.
The film: A western as cruel as it is funny, in which Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges take their hats off to debutante Hailee Steinfield.
The big difference: It's as faithful to Portis' book as it is to the previous adaptation with John Wayne.
18. The Princess Bride (1987)
The book: William Goldman, master of screenwriters, was marked by an enormous joke with this action-adventure story, attributed to a certain Morgenstern.
The film: It was a relative failure in its cinema release, but immediately became a cult classic. Goldman himself signed the script, and Rob Reiner directed it.
The big difference: meta-textual games and the jokes at the expense of the literary world fill the original, but are conspicuous by their absence from the film.
19. Nothing New on the Front (1930)
The book: The German Erich Maria Remarque poured his bitter experience of the First World War into this novel.
The film: A disturbing anti-war film shot by Lewis Milestone, which greatly influenced the way the war was portrayed in the cinema.
The big difference: The novel is written in German, while the film (if you see it in OV) is in English.
