Re: books that made it to the screen, rather succesfully

jente algoed (jentealgoed@hotmail.com)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:08:46 -0800 (PST)

sorry camiile, but I rather enjoyed the outsiders, but what the heck we 
probably have different opinions, that's what makes us human.

>>
>> nabokov's "lolita" (kubricks version)
>
>You've got to be kidding. Like I already said, there's no doubt that 
was
>Lolita there, it just sure wasn't Nabokov's. I don't know about books 
that
>translated well to the screen - once you start working in a whole lot 
of
>different media (TV's the only one that I haven't tried) you begin to
>realise that the best works of art are the ones that have been designed
>explicitly for the medium in which they appear. I can think of a couple 
of
>really bad ones (`The Outsiders' - Ford Coppola for one). Sally 
Potter's
>`Orlando' is the only decent one that springs to mind.
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
>@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>
>
>


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