Re: Books into Movies
David L. White (d-white@nwu.edu)
Wed, 09 Jul 1997 08:43:24 -0500
At 08:33 PM 7/8/97 -0500, you wrote:
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> Can ANYONE name a film adaptation of a book (that you had read at the
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YES!!!! John Frankenheimer's MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and his follow-up
SECONDS. Both films expand on the book's themes in every way. Another
good example is SILENCE OF LAMBS, in which Jonathan Demme took a merely
interesting pot-boiler and actually made it ABOUT something.
Of course, none of these writers are J.D. Salinger...
David White
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>Subject: Re: Er, no thanks, Thomas.
>Author: <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu> at sb-entsmtp
>Date: 7/7/97 8:41 PM
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>>I dunno. I'm not dying to see a movie made from CITR, but I'm not totally
>>against it either. People always act like this would be the worst tragedy
>>in the history of movies and literature, but I don't see it like that. I
>>think it would be (at least) very interesting to see how it came out. If
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>>was bad... and disloyal to the book, I would simply dismiss it and go on
>>with my life. Actually now that I think about it... I would really LIKE to
>>see a movie made from Catcher...yeah!
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