Re: Books into Movies

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At 08:33 PM 7/8/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>     Can ANYONE name a film adaptation of a book (that you had read at the 
>     time of seeing the movie) that was satisfying?

YES!!!!  John Frankenheimer's MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and his follow-up
SECONDS.  Both films expand on the book's themes in every way.  Another
good example is SILENCE OF LAMBS, in which Jonathan Demme took a merely
interesting pot-boiler and actually made it ABOUT something.

Of course, none of these writers are J.D. Salinger...

David White
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>Subject: Re:  Er, no thanks, Thomas.
>Author:  <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu> at sb-entsmtp
>Date:    7/7/97 8:41 PM
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>>I dunno.  I'm not dying to see a movie made from CITR, but I'm not totally 
>>against it either.  People always act like this would be the worst tragedy 
>>in the history of movies and literature, but I don't see it like that.  I 
>>think it would be (at least) very interesting to see how it came out.  If
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>>was bad... and disloyal to the book, I would simply dismiss it and go on 
>>with my life.  Actually now that I think about it... I would really LIKE to 
>>see a movie made from Catcher...yeah!
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