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Posted: April 19, 2008 8:37:55 pm
When a film director or executive decides to take a piece literature and place it thus on film; they seem to have this habit of changing it. There is, of course, a litany of books to film that all of us can think of. The only movie that I can think of at the ready that stayed true to the book is Interview With the Vampire. This is because Anne Rice wrote the script. I've read the book before watching the movie. Everything in the movie is perfectly exact as the book. Well, save for a few minor omissions made by Rice due to length. But, the film follows the book precisely.

Last edited April 20, 2008 12:56:07 am
Go in peace and reach for the heavens.
Posted: April 20, 2008 12:14:07 am
fight club was also reasonably true to the book. however, fight club was a very short book. most of the problems that making books into films seems to be that a film can only support roughly one hundred pages per hour of film. so you take a book that is eight hundred pages and turn it into a movie, you have to cut chunks out of the story just to make a film that won't keep people in a theater seat for six hours.
Posted: April 20, 2008 12:44:26 am
"Tis truth Kungfu. "tis truth.Smile
Go in peace and reach for the heavens.
Posted: April 29, 2008 5:01:57 pm
Also pertaining to Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk writes books that are fairly easily to visualize. In fact, last time he was in town, he said that all of his novels had been purchased for future movies.
"You're one of those nerds."
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