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Movies Based on Novels

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the.hoffman
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Whaddup Guys?

For an english assignment I need to pick a book that has a movie based on it. I have a few ideas, but I was curious if you guys had any good ideas.

Thanks
+k for help
Sep 17 2010 5:49PM
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Oh_So_Hyphy
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Holes by Louis Sachar

Easy reading great book
Sep 17 2010 5:50PM
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soulskier
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twilight, duh but on a serious note, the road is a great book AND movie
Sep 17 2010 5:51PM
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.frenchy
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I had to do that last year, I did The Godfather.
Sep 17 2010 5:52PM
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Balto
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lord of the rings?
Sep 17 2010 5:53PM
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king.tubby
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jurassic park is a sick book
Sep 17 2010 5:59PM
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Rachy
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Does the movie have to be out yet?

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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I think the movie comes out next year....
Sep 17 2010 6:02PM
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ElbridgeGerry
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I second that as well. The Road is a horrifying, yet amazingly written book.
Sep 17 2010 6:03PM
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Mike-O
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The Naked Lunch.

It will be a challenge.
Sep 17 2010 6:04PM
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bigbromskier
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Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. haven't read the book yet but the movie's siiick
Sep 17 2010 6:05PM
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the.hoffman
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Yeah it's gotta be out, cause I gotta watch it and compare it to the book.

Thanks though
Sep 17 2010 6:06PM
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the.hoffman
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Thanks for all the input everyone,

I guess I should have made it clear though that the book has to have been released after 1975
Sep 17 2010 6:10PM
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Dhane
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can i get a 3rd on that? i havent gotten around to watching the movie yet, but the book blew me away. its a legit terrifying book, im not sure how they portrayed elements of it onto screen. thats basically the only reason i want to see the movie.
Sep 17 2010 6:13PM
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Caspian
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Fight club

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Sep 17 2010 6:15PM
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paige.
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The Power of One is a really good movie and the people I know who've read it also really liked the book.
Sep 17 2010 6:16PM
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Mike-O
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It's very boring. I imagine they just couldn't portray the book's narrative into the film.
Sep 17 2010 6:17PM
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geteducated
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where the buffalo roam
fear and loathing

the shining
stephen king stuff

hamlet lololol
Sep 17 2010 6:17PM
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Dhane
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i can see that. what made the road so intense was the writing style. im currently reading it again for a humanities class and theres just so much in there for such a simplistic novel. carmac mcarthy will have a nobel prize in literature very very soon is my guess. if not for the road then another work
Sep 17 2010 6:19PM
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Che~
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into the wild
or
angels and demons
Sep 17 2010 6:24PM
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Spinoza
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yeah fight club is the obvious choice but try to be creative,

check out this website (more useful than this thread will ever be):
http://www.chasingthefrog.com/books/movie-books.php


and for those who said the road, i havent read the book but the movie was a COMPLETE waste of time. nothing happened. and my dad said they changed the ending by having the kid find some nice group of ppl to go off with where in the book he just goes off on his own.
w.e
Sep 17 2010 6:27PM
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smooter
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harry potter 1-6
Sep 17 2010 8:48PM
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Heart
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i really liked the da vinci code.
Sep 17 2010 8:49PM
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treebeard
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really the only option here.
Sep 17 2010 8:50PM
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ChrisSkisChronic
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Shawshank Redemption

Sep 17 2010 8:51PM
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T-Holt
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The Sweet Hereafter.
Sep 17 2010 8:51PM
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molsongolden
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american psycho
Sep 17 2010 8:53PM
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Rachy
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This.

I've heard that the contents of this book are so disturbing that the movie just touches the disturbingness found in it.

something about sending live rats up a woman's colon and letting them "eat her out".......

Yay literature!
Sep 17 2010 8:56PM
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Dan.P
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depending on what grade OP is in Holes is probably not sophistocated enough.

I would suggest doing a classic, there is so much more info on them on the net and such
Sep 17 2010 9:08PM
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JamesR
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On behalf of those who have neither read or seen it. Thanks, dick.
Sep 17 2010 9:11PM
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ch@se
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I'm going to have to agree with the road, although I thought it was much better as a book.
Sep 17 2010 9:12PM
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the.hoffman
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+k to all.

Thanks a lot for all the suggestions. I'm going to bring them in Monday cause my teacher has to give us her opinion on which will be best for the assignment.

PS for whoever mentioned it above, I'm in the twelfth grade.
Sep 17 2010 9:18PM
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geteducated
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12th grade?

i feel so used.
Sep 17 2010 9:20PM
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Aenigma
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Hmmm. I guess I'm in the minority by thinking that book was written by a fifth grader. Good idea, sub-standard execution. That's a book where I could actually fully expect the movie to blow it away, because I can't get hung up on stubby, butchered sentences on film. That being said...

Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr.
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer.
Sep 17 2010 9:31PM
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molsongolden
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requiem for a dream was a crazy movie
Sep 17 2010 9:32PM
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pomme-de-terre
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one flew over the cuckoos nest.

book was sick as fuck. movie is pretty good.
Sep 17 2010 9:36PM
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katie.
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let me join the club here..the road gripped me, shocked me, stunned me and i basically didnt stop reading for 4 hours. SO GOOD.

have yet to see the movie but plan on it soon...

amazing

Sep 17 2010 9:42PM
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inb4_UMAD
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Sep 17 2010 10:23PM
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Rockhound
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the road, even though i hated the ending, the rest was awsome

OR!

No country for old men, by cormac mcarthy
GREAT BOOK, FANTASTIC MOVIE
Sep 17 2010 10:26PM
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Shaky_Jake
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Great fucking movie and book.
V for Vendetta is a killer movie, though it is based on a graphic novel.
Sep 17 2010 10:36PM
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Rockhound
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in return, Watchmen is a killer Graphic novel.
the movie sucked
Sep 17 2010 10:42PM
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danderson.
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How the Grinch stole Christmas?
Sep 17 2010 10:45PM
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molsongolden
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horton hears a who
Sep 18 2010 2:34AM
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fsscott
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childhood's end needs to have a movie on it

wait


no it doesn't

most movies on novels suck

source: most movies based off of novels
Sep 18 2010 2:38AM
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Mike-O
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Let's say it like this: the book ranges from encyclopedic narration about Phil Collins' career for 10 pages to gruesomely detailed explanations of Bateman ripping whores' throats open with a coat hanger, cutting off their breasts and feeding their own livers to them as they are still barely alive while simultaneously fucking knife gashes on their stomachs. What does he think during this? Well, what suit to wear to work tomorrow, the the pin-stripe Armani or the charcoal Ralph Lauren.

Yeah, it's a great book.
Sep 18 2010 6:20AM
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Oreos
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people need to start doing their own work.
Sep 18 2010 6:28AM
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[BRI]noceros
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i've never read the book, but the movie Stand By Me is awesome. Stephen King read the book, and it's definitely a high school/coming of age sort of thing. Thank You For Smoking is another great movie with a book i haven't read.
i need to read both of them.
Sep 18 2010 6:52AM
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[BRI]noceros
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sorry for the double post, but the Stephen King book is actually called "The Body"
Sep 18 2010 6:53AM
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ElbridgeGerry
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The movie didn't come close to touching the book. I found the narration in The Road to be some of the best in any book. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other book I've read where they describe gray clouds as "the relentless encirclings of an intestate Earth"


Sep 18 2010 10:33AM
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Jibbin_Ur_Face
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Fight Club
Green Mile
The Edge of Never- Good skiing book/movie
Sep 18 2010 10:35AM
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Jibbin_Ur_Face
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Fight Club
Green Mile
The Edge of Never- Good skiing book/movie
Sep 18 2010 10:35AM
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soulskier
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haha, stand by me didnt sound quite right
Sep 18 2010 12:10PM
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