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    Thanga (@ ppp5*) on: Fri Oct 27 10:50:35 EDT 2000




    Hello aruLaracan,

    I have read Animal Farm and enjoyed it thoroughly. But I would not dare see the movie version of it.

    Ravi Sundaram, you say it perfectly. When you read a novel - especially something descriptive like Thomas Hardy or DH Lawrence, you seep in the story. You get really involved with the charachters, you think about them, you feel for them, you wonder about them and they become your good friends. I've even dreamed about a lot of charachters. And then you see them in the movie and it is such a let down.

    First of all, they don't even look like your friends. Second, the movie is so short and you don't get to know them - very impersonal - like it is happening to somebody else. In the book it is all happening to you!

    I do agree that the exceptions are science fictions and other "action" stories. John Grisham and the like.





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    Kalpana (@ 164.*) on: Mon Oct 30 03:21:32 EST 2000




    Hello
    In some situations movies come out better in portraying emotions.The background score,the sets contribute to the happiness or Pathos in the story.
    The deep intensity of emotions affect us physically and psychologically when described in detail by a writer.

    The narration helps us draw a picture in the mind which may look very disapointing once seen on the screen.

    Both media are important in their own way in communicating to the reader or a celluloid lover of the message in Question.





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    Alison (@ dail*) on: Sat Dec 30 11:03:46




    Has anyone read the book Pay it Forward? I think this is an excellent book, but for some reason I enjoyed the movie more than I did the book. Also, does anybody have any suggestions on books I should read that have been made into movies? Thank you.





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    aruLaracan (@ psip*) on: Mon Jan 1 14:37:44 EST 2001




    (1) the bridges of madison county!!! (i haven't seen the movie yet ).
    (2) the exorcist. ( i have read only a part of the book tho' i have seen the movie twice).
    (3) of mice and men - the movie was (surprisingly) well made.
    (4) ...





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    pg (@ gate*) on: Wed Jan 3 15:31:04 EST 2001




    Gone with the Wind.

    I could not move beyond 50 pages of the book. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.





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    Sundar (@ ip9.*) on: Thu Jan 4 08:20:56 EST 2001




    Now I want to p*ss and moan and generally b*tch about making "The Lord of the Rings" into a movie. I mean, Sam Raimi already tried with animation and look where that went? Goo-goo eyed Hobbits freakish Elves. The only saving grace of that dismality was the song "where there's a whip, there's a way!" There's a novel that shouldn't be touched. The Dune movie was heinous as well!





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    Lotuseater (@ 202.*) on: Mon Jan 29 23:50:51





    Thanga et al

    I agree that film as an audiovisual medium
    needs a different approach for presentation.
    But,Gosh,how much (too much) liberty the
    Directors take in distorting the original
    writing !

    Years back,I saw 'The Hound of Baskervilles',
    the immortal Holmes classic shot as a film.
    thescariest scene being just a poisonous
    spider climbing on the hand of Sherlock Holmes!
    To add insult to injury,even the criminal was
    changed from the original!

    And see what they have done to several versions
    of 'Lost World',the Sci-Fi masterpiece of
    Professor Challenger Stories ,probably the
    source of inspiration for Crichton-Spielberg-
    Dinosaur syndrome which shook the world at the
    turn of the twentieth cetury.Read the original
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and you may feel he is
    turning in his grave!








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    tshankar (@ ptl-*) on: Tue Jan 30 02:08:40




    Hi Ladies and Gentlemen,

    Have you all forgotten the yester years Great Movies which are all from Novels by Alister MacLean?

    ICE STATION ZEBRA
    WHERE EAGLES DARE
    GUNS OF NAVARONE
    FORCE TEN FROM NAVARONE
    BEAR ISLAND
    CARAVAN TO VACCARES

    What about Henry Sharriere's PAPPILLON (PATTAAM POOCHI NOVEL PUBLISHED IN KUMUDHAM)

    wHAT ABOUT APPOLLO 13??

    pLEASE SAY SOME THING..







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    Lotuseater (@ 202.*) on: Thu Feb 1 05:26:41





    tshankar

    I have seen many of the movies you have mentioned and enjoyed them. Alistair MacLean
    revelled in sudden twists in the plot and they were well presented in the films.Remember the final scene in 'Where The Eagles Dare' ?

    'Papillone'was noted for photographing the swamps
    of Guyanas.

    Farther down the memory lane,I remember 'The
    Three Musketeers' of Alexandre Dumas ,the film
    being even more exciting than the novel.The role
    of swashbuckler D'Artagnan was played by Gene
    Kelly,known till then only as a dancer in MGM films, but he did even better than Errol Flynn or
    Douglas Fairbanks !





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    spectator (@ bing*) on: Sun Feb 18 16:44:11




    How about John Grisham?





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