Our BetterMost Community > Chez Tremblay
Brokeback on adaptation shortlist....
Becky:
I got this from contact music today:
ENGLISH PATIENT AND CLOCKWORK ORANGE AMONG TOP ADAPTATIONS
Desert romance THE ENGLISH PATIENT, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and gay cowboy epic BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN have been included in a shortlist of the best 50 books to make it to the big screen. The list, compiled by Britain's Book Marketing Society, honours literary classics turned into movie masterpieces and will be voted on by readers online and at UK bookshops. Among the works cited, director STEVEN SPIELBERG is responsible for three: JG BALLARD's EMPIRE OF THE SUN, THOMAS KENEALLY's Holocaust drama SCHINDLER'S ARK (filmed as SCHINDLER'S LIST), and JAWS, written by PETER BENCHLEY. Meanwhile, movie re-workings of MICHAEL ONDAATJE's The English Patient, ANTHONY BURGESS' A Clockwork Orange, and KEN KESEY's ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST have garnered 14 Oscars and another 11 Academy Award nominations. GOODFELLAS, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, GET SHORTY, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and FIGHT CLUB also make the shortlist.
Is this good news or what?
ps. I am sorry if it has already been posted.
littleguitar:
thanks for that, Becky! It was interesting!
The only one I disagree with is "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" it was a brilliant movie but the book is in a whole other league, IMO. The book is told from Chief Bromden's point of view and the loss of this in the movie just wrecks it for me. I love the movie for being a great movie, but thinking of it as an adaptation always ruins it for me... :-\
littleguitar:
by the way, have I ever told you I love your signature line? It is so beautiful! ::)
vkm91941:
So Becky you going to vote on-line?
Becky:
Vote for what where? ??? I am a slow thinker so you will have to say that slow and with directions. :laugh:
Thanks Mandy ;) I got it from my screenplay. When I read it, it just made me cry and I was like(not to sound too dodgy teenage film) "That is soo Brokeback", there were loads of Annie ones that I liked, but this one just summed BBM up for me. Mr Larry McMurtry, you do astound me. ::) I love yours too, where is that from?
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version