[spamkillerf]

Gone with the Wind.

I could not move beyond 50 pages of the book. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

[FYvWldC0]

I have seen Silence of the lambs - but then I've never read the book!

I haven't read any George Orwell either. But I will get to it as soon as finish my current book. And maybe I will see the movie too.

I am almost irrationally afraid of watching a book I've read - especially one where I love the charachters. They have a peculiar charm and are very personal when I read a book. I guess I am afraid that they would look and feel and be so impersonal in the movie!

And thank you aruLaracan. I will not watch 'Contact'

[nryFBa9i]

Contact! sorry thanga. imo, the movie is a pathetic piece of hollywood sht. the movie contact was a jingoist piece of junk unlike the book which was very balanced. hollywood has this uncanny ability to adopt great books and skrew them up. non-hollywood movies do better in this regard. i remember watching 1984 a couple of years ago. forgot the name of the producer, director, actor ... . it was a british make. it was a very good, true to the book production.

[km2000]

Novels let the reader explore the mind of the main character, you just simply can't do that in a film. Because all of a movie is what the characters are expressing through talking.

[leahjhburton]

silence of the lambs - the movie equals the novel

[ycMC0PLg]

thanga (but please don't blame me if you ever happened to watch that movie and, god forbid, you liked it! ) ). george orwell is a great author. his animal farm is another classic. one of his not so widely read book is "down and out in london and paris".

how was MASH? i tried reading the book but couldn't go beyond a few pages

[beriarele]

(1) the bridges of madison county!!! (i haven't seen the movie yet ).
(2) the exorcist. ( i have read only a part of the book tho' i have seen the movie twice).
(3) of mice and men - the movie was (surprisingly) well made.
(4) ...

[RicardoHun]

Hi Ladies and Gentlemen,

Have you all forgotten the yester years Great Movies which are all from Novels by Alister MacLean?

ICE STATION ZEBRA
WHERE EAGLES DARE
GUNS OF NAVARONE
FORCE TEN FROM NAVARONE
BEAR ISLAND
CARAVAN TO VACCARES

What about Henry Sharriere's PAPPILLON (PATTAAM POOCHI NOVEL PUBLISHED IN KUMUDHAM)

wHAT ABOUT APPOLLO 13??

pLEASE SAY SOME THING..

[soryalomop]

Topclone, the "Iron Mask" is a shame of a movie. Full of holes, and definitley not well visualized. By itself, it a !@$@% movie.

David, I disagree that the characters don't get to show in a movie. Indian movies employ dialogues to move the plot, while Hollywood emplys dialogues to reflect the character (Thanks: Rajiv Menon). Yeah, they can't do it as good as in a book, true.

Hanzel, I think it'll be interesting to watch 'Coma' and 'The Great Train Robbery', where Crichton is a director. Have ya?

[Qeiafib]

I completely agree with you. Novels definitely have something better in them. I find that watching a movie after reading the book completely spoils it for me.

My husband says the only exception is 'Contact'. He says the movie is better than the book. But I can't bring myself to see it yet!

[jhkjurter]

How about John Grisham?

[kmjbbT3U]

Misery the movie says it all. The book was superb.

[BinasiDombrs]

Thanga et al

I agree that film as an audiovisual medium
needs a different approach for presentation.
But,Gosh,how much (too much) liberty the
Directors take in distorting the original
writing !

Years back,I saw 'The Hound of Baskervilles',
the immortal Holmes classic shot as a film.
thescariest scene being just a poisonous
spider climbing on the hand of Sherlock Holmes!
To add insult to injury,even the criminal was
changed from the original!

And see what they have done to several versions
of 'Lost World',the Sci-Fi masterpiece of
Professor Challenger Stories ,probably the
source of inspiration for Crichton-Spielberg-
Dinosaur syndrome which shook the world at the
turn of the twentieth cetury.Read the original
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and you may feel he is
turning in his grave!

[bertanu]

Hello
In some situations movies come out better in portraying emotions.The background score,the sets contribute to the happiness or Pathos in the story.
The deep intensity of emotions affect us physically and psychologically when described in detail by a writer.

The narration helps us draw a picture in the mind which may look very disapointing once seen on the screen.

Both media are important in their own way in communicating to the reader or a celluloid lover of the message in Question.

[Anakattawl]

hey...i've read all your comments and they are all quiet enjoyable. To my amusement all the books you talked about are books that my classmates from grade 11 english class chose to read and watch the video to be able to compare them in an essay format. I do not know much about them myself but now i am really excited to hear their presentations about the books and their adaptations to the movies. Yet, im still wondering about the book i chose and since you seem the right people to ask (sounding so smart and all) i am going to ask you. What do you personally think of the great novel, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess? I do believe that the novel is better than the movie, although the movie is quiet good by itself and very detailed. thx and ciao!

[Idonnaink]

I believe it iz tru dat novels provide more imagination for the story than the film but sometimes watchin da movie first can b quite that much beta>.. as it is easier 2 understand who everyone iz..wen relating to the film to kill a mocking bird i believe it woz easier to understand, and more enjoyable to c characters come to life on screen!

[77Dinaartickire]

Dear venKat (@ kraken.fw-sj.sony.com:
"Train to Pakistan" - movie by Pamela Rooks was better than the novel by the same name written by Kushwant Singh. And he himself admitted the fact. "English August" by Dev Benegal was as good as the novel by Upamanyu Chatterjee whereas "The Inscrutable Americans" by Anurag Mathur was a better book than the movie made on it recently. So, there seems to be no general rule. I think reading the novel after seeing the movie gives a bette sense of fulfilment in the sense you feel like filling in the left out spaces in apperciation !

[FinanseMikky]

What public domain novel or novels would make a great film? (That haven't been filmed already)

[Hervams]

go home you sore losers!!!!!!!

[fil_nurser]

Now I want to p*ss and moan and generally b*tch about making "The Lord of the Rings" into a movie. I mean, Sam Raimi already tried with animation and look where that went? Goo-goo eyed Hobbits freakish Elves. The only saving grace of that dismality was the song "where there's a whip, there's a way!" There's a novel that shouldn't be touched. The Dune movie was heinous as well!