Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Wonderful World of Blicks...wait, what's a Blick?

Blicks, dear reader, are what happen to books when they become movies. More often than not, the book is way better than the movie. Take, for instance, The DaVinci Code, which was a thrilling and fun book, but which translated kind of flatly to the screen. I mean c'mon, Tom Hanks as Langdon?! He's not exactly the dashing hero I envisioned. But then you've got a movie like The Devil Wears Prada, which brings a dash of humanity to the villian completely lacking in the book...and well, you get to see some really great clothes, and then there's Brokeback Mountain which is far more developed than the sparsely written short story. There are even some really fabulous movies that I had no idea were novels first!


So, Whadda think about these following Movies/Books. Which version is better and Why?


Hoot
Sin City
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Devil Wears Prada
The Borne Supremecy
Harry Potter (any or all of them)
Ella Enchanted
Pride and Prejudice
Brokeback Mountain
V is for Vendetta
The Princess Bride
Cold Mountain
The Princess Diaries
In her Shoes
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Memoirs of a Geisha
Angela's Ashes
Carrie
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Dead Poet's Society
Clueless/ Emma
High Fidelity
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Holes
Jurassic Park
Lord of the Flies
The Outsiders
Rebecca
Sense and Sensiblity
A Series of Unfortuante Events
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Speak
To Kill a Mockingbird
Where the Heart Is
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Anonymous said...

For the movies that i have seen that i have also read the books:

"The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe"- one of my favorite books of all time. amazing story by one of my favorite authors. As for the movie, i thought they did an excellent job. Sure there would be a few things i would change and/or delete/add but for the most part its wonderful.

Harry Potter Books- so far they have done a good job in representing the books in my opinion.

"Pride and Prejudice"- the original BBC version was spot on translation, but then again it was like a million hours long or something. As to the most recent version, not bad for the time contraints and hollywoodization of the story. i was duly impressed.

"High Fidelity" - A great translation of the book...almost perfect casting, and a great translation to film.

"The Hitch Hiker's Guide..." - Another superb translationm, espescially if you have read all the books.

"Jurassic Park" - Not bad but could have been a much closer translation in my opinion, though it has been years since ive seen or read it.

"A Series of Unfortuante Events"
i loved as a movie which lead me to read teh books, and so far i think it was a great representation.

"To Kill a Mockingbird"
Both an amazing story and an amazing movie. i hvae no qualms with this translation to film.

as to the the movies in this selection that i enjoyed without having read teh source material:

all of the following were amazing or at least entertaining in their own way:

Sin City
Bourne movies
V for VEndetta
Princess Bride
Memoirs of Geisha
Dead Poet's Society

cheers
M

6:31 AM

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