Looks like Signor Broccoli copied the Disney formula to a T.
I don’t blame the screenplay writers for changing the focus of the film off of Big Chief, most of the narration wouldn’t work on film. Describing the insidious nature of Nurse Ratched’s particular brand of evil is difficult and the film does as good a job as they could, her meeting with the Doctors to discuss McMurphy’s fate is so much better in the book. ‘The black boys’ weren’t as mean in the movie, though I assume that may be because the studio didn’t want to deal with charges of racism.
Dale Harding was far more interesting in the novel, particularly when discussing his wife. Some of his issues were addressed in the film, but it didn’t do enough to make you feel sympathy for the character or bring the depth needed to show the audience these ‘crazy people’ have the same problems we all do. A critical theme of the novel.
McMurphy wasn’t exactly like Jack Nicolson played him, but I am not sure the story was the worse for it. Still could have dyed Jacks hair bright red though.
I don’t recall the basketball scene in the novel, but it’s been years since I read it.
I thought the film was ok, a lot was cut out (especially the Chiefs story) but it stands without it and for the most part they got the major themes correct.
Other than sharing the same title, a plot that involves zombies, and a scene involving Israel’s planned fortifications against the threat, the two are nothing alike.
Obviously I don’t think Heinlein’s ST is a satire. I was trying to prove a point.
Consider: the book doesn’t have much of a plot, its characters aren’t much more than cardboard cutouts, and there’s very little interpersonal conflict. If it weren’t so well written, it’s conceivable that a hypothetical reader who doesn’t know who RAH was or what his beliefs were, might confuse the book for satire. I could see it happening.
Likewise the movie. Maybe it’s supposed to be a satire; or maybe it’s simply a poorly-made movie that for very understandable reasons many people assume is a satire. Most critics didn’t consider it a satire when it came out - the fact that many do now could be because they’ve become aware of its satirical nature, or it could simply be a case of groupthink. I don’t think we can know for sure.
It was not a Model T! It was custom-made, designed by Ken Adams, and built by Alan Mann Racing! (Although it did have a Ford 3000 V6 engine.)
You don’t have a point, and are just succeeding in stinking up this thread.
Modnote: This post is getting unnecessarily combative and insulting to another poster. Please don’t do this again. If you feel he is derailing the thread, please flag his posts instead.
On that note, @Alessan, you are off-topic here and derailing this thread. Drop the Starship Trooper speculation or bring it to a new thread.
This is just a guidance, not a warning. Nothing on your permanent record.
That was actually me trying to avoid being combative.
I’m not complaining about the guidance, just saying maybe I need to tweak my backing away slowly text.
Fair enough. I apologize for the hijack.
In the film version of Elmer Gantry, the Tabernacle fire that kills Sharon Falconer is the big finale. In the book, it happens halfway through. Imagine my disappointment while reading it that I still had another half of the book to slog through.
The book “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” has no songs at all - and no plot
The Old Latin comedies of the Roman playwright Plautus such as Pseudolus and Miles Gloriosus are pretty different from Stephen Sondheim’s musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which borrows some of their characters and situations but is, well, a Broadway musical.
ETA: Same for Sondheim’s and Shevelove’s musical version of Aristophanes’ The Frogs.
Nitpick: There was no book Adaptation. The original source was the book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean (played by Meryl Streep in the movie).
Similarly, in Quadrophenia, the Brighton beach riot is the climax of the film, whereas on the original album it happens near the beginning.
Soylent Green has very little to do with Make Room! Make Room!
I did and it’s why I stopped reading McLean. I don’t know much about hiding large guns in Greek island caves but I do know a bit about railroads and the American west. It was quite apparent McLean had not done the slightest bit of research on either before writing the novel.
40+ years have dulled the details but one scene I remember in particular was when the hero of the story was tasked with keeping watch over the locomotive when they made an overnight stop. As he did so he kept leaving it for a time to carry out some information gathering, then hustle back to the locomotive and fiddle with it to keep the water up in the boiler, then off again to find out something else.
He had cut what the backhead of a locomotive was like, how you determine the water level and steam pressure are in the boiler are, and what to do about it if one of them is off from whole cloth and it was one of those cases, as Dorothy allegedly said, “It’s not a book to be tossed lightly aside — it should be thrown with great force.”
Being a paperback, it wasn’t satisfying even then.
For a real life one, how about Sully? In reality, Sully did not get hauled before an inquiry and put on trial with his career at stake. Yes, the plane crashed and I think the depiction of that is very accurate to how it played out in real life. But the rest of the movie was about bureaucrats trying to ruin Sully and it did not happen like that at all. Instead, remember that scene where a random hotel employee gives him a hug. After the Miracle on the Hudson, that was basically everybody, especially people in aviation and safety.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies [the film] is apparently quite different in some places to the book. By which I mean the book, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I’ve only seen the movie - I’m taking the word of a friend who is wasting their life one piece of crap at a time.
The film of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, placed in a Venn diagram with the book of the same name, overlaps it nowhere except a five-word phrase, “Dad builds a magic car.” Once Broccoli had gotten that from it, he threw the book in the Thames and forgot about it.
The TV show of Under the Dome…
Actually, a related question. Has there ever been a Stephen King TV/movie adaptation that DID closely follow the plot of the original?