The Best Prose-To-Screen Adaptation Ever? Vote!

Like many others, missed the genre thing. Though you could argue Clockwork Orange is sci-fi.

Fight Club

FIGHT CLUB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

really surprised so many are saying Fight Club, especially over the likes of LOTR, Jaws, Shawshank. Fight Club is a good movie, but come on, it’s no classic.

A Song of Ice and Fire series are not a fantasy novels
it’s gore, pretentiously adult novel masqueraded as fantasy novels with minimal fantasy and maximal “Adultness”

LOTR series are indeed, not nicely written and bore at a time, but it’s pure fantasy, Tom Bombadil, Witch-King, Elves, and all.

LOTR for me, hands down, especially now that i’m over the omission of Tom Bombadil (and sort of agree with it).

300 anyone? Great genre novel to film adaptation.

I feel no shame in saying that the film is actually BETTER than the novel.  And the novel is great.

Jurassic Park is a fun movie – but it’s an absolute disgrace how badly adapted the book was.  Fingers crossed HBO get a chance to do a good adaptation.

McMillan hasn’t specified which genre he’s talking about anyway so it doesn’t matter.  All he’s identified are best written prose to film adaptation.  As a result any type of written prose to film adaptation applies.

Genre is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria.  Graeme hasn’t specified any specific genre apart from prose to film, so anything goes.

Really? Like “The Third Man”! I didn`t know that, thanks! Anyway, Kubrick still managed to transform good to average books like The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut or the mentioned Barry Lyndon into incredible pieces of art, in my opinion.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.   Glengarry Glen Ross.   Both are plays adapted to film that had strong involvment with their original writers.

The Outsiders.   Costumes are as described in the book.  Dialouge can be read from the book as the movie progresses.   Watch the COmplete Novel cut and it is almost perfect….

Of course!

The Joy Luck Club. It raises the economic level of the characters and adds a scene or two, but it’s accurate to the book in terms of where the characters are all in relation to each other.

But — if you want to stick with “genre” — I’m surprised Graham didn’t nominate Star Wars, since it was published as a novel before the film.

Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe edited one small scene’s lines but is otherwise quite accurate.

And 300 should be there too. Granted, it was a copy of a film based on an ancient text, but it’s still pretty accurate to the graphic novel.

L.A. Confidential.

Fight Club is one of the rare movies where it is better than the book. While the book is good, the movie takes the ideas presented and organizes them better and presents a better ending.