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Director Ridley Scott made major changes to the text, and Dick was extremely apprehensive. Though sadly, the sci-fi legend died before the release, even Dick came to the conclusion the flick was better than the book. After seeing rough cuts, he told producers, My life and creative work are justified and completed by BLADE RUNNER."
What exactly makes a great movie adaptation? If you ask me, it's all in the creative liberties. Adaptations aren't meant to be strict recreations of their source material, and often, they're better for not being that at all (e.g. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining...sorry in advance to Stephen King fans, count me among them!). A film adaptation should capture and celebrate the unique "essence" of the original story through reinterpretation of characters, plot, setting, themes, and motifs. While it is entirely possible to enjoy both the book and movie with equal passion, for the purposes of this list, I've decided to round up a handful of adaptations I personally believe have a slight edge over the wonderful books they're based on.
Why the movie is better: There aren't many films that have given me such a specific feeling of existential dread as Annihilation did. The 2018 movie, based on Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 science-fiction horror novel of the same name, follows Lena (played by Natalie Portman), a biologist and former soldier who joins a mission to enter the mysterious zone Area X in an attempt to find out what happened to her husband. He's been missing for a year, and her grief colors every frame of the screen, often manifesting in dizzying, surrealist nature sequences that are as haunting as they are hypnotic. While VanderMeer's book is the first in an epic science fiction trilogy, and deserves all the awards and recognition it's achieved, there is something about this portrayal of grief that works so much better in a visual medium. The film's ending feels hauntingly, inevitably complete. Also, there's nothing quite like sitting in a dark theater, witnessing the truly terrifying "bear monster" sniff its potential victims and open its mouth wide for a bite into one of their faces. This movie is honestly a profoundly personal viewing experience, so go see it for yourself. Tessa Thompson, Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Gina Rodriguez also star.
Why the movie is better: The iconic, highly-quotable teen movie that helped remind the world of Lindsay Lohan's undeniable prowess as a comedic actor, is actually loosely based on a non-fiction self-help/parenting book from 2002. I remember going to see a similar author who specialized in teen girl aggression, with Wiseman being a guest speaker at the time. During the talk, she plugged Queen Bees and Wannabes, which I found to be pretty insightful, though the film is far more entertaining and memorable. Aided by the sharp writing of SNL's fabulous Tina Fey (who optioned the book), the film is actually co-written by Fey and Wiseman herself. Much of the terminology from the movie is lifted directly from the self-help text, from the definition of what exactly makes a "Queen Bee" girl clique leader, to an elaborate definition of "Girl World." The book, of course, has a more somber tone than the film. And, though helpful and thoughtful, it's way less engaging and memorable than the punchy, witty, endlessly meme-able high school comedy-drama that it inspired. Not to mention, the salacious Broadway musical spin-off which, despite its campy tone, resonates with teens then and now for its stark portrayal of girl-on-girl bullying and the pressures of contemporary high school life. It's not like a regular movie, it's like a cool movie.
Why the movie is better: While I'm well aware that this selection may anger a number of Stephen King fans, I stand by this choice for a number of reasons. For one, Stanley Kubrick takes the source material and turns it into something that King never envisioned...which is part of why the author loathes the film so much. However, Kubrick's adapted vision is multi-layered in its ambiguity, is genuinely horrifying, and is far darker than the original novel. In fact, I've seen The Shining many times, reading new layers and finding new theories on every viewing, where it took a while to finish King's novel. As much as I enjoy him as a storyteller, and tip my hat to him being one of the greatest and most influential horror writers of all time, I've always been more intrigued by the Jack Torrance of Kubrick's version, played here by the always enigmatic and fascinating Jack Nicholson. Unlike Book Jack, Movie Jack isn't an inherently good man trying to do his best as a husband and father; he's an absolute nightmare, a ticking time bomb waiting to explode, and the Overlook Hotel is less of a supernatural terror and more of disturbing psychological journey of one man slowly losing his mind in isolation with his family. Oh, and if you love overanalyzing every inch of this movie as much as I do, check out Rob Ager's painstakingly researched video analyses on various Shining theories. The 2012 documentary Room 237 covers a lot of similar ground on the dozens of interpretations, but Ager (who actually turned down a spot in the doc) goes way further in depth and even debunks a few of them. Basically, in addition to being scary as hell, this movie is an endless rabbit hole.
Why the movie is better: There is no doubt about it: Michael Crichton is a fantastic thriller writer, but when you get Steven Spielberg involved in an already awesome project about freaking dinosaurs in the modern age, things quickly go from really good to great. The book is exciting and well-paced, but the blockbuster is what I immediately think of when I hear the term "movie magic." While the film is quite tame in comparison to the book (likely toned down to achieve a more universal PG-13 rating), Spielberg and his team really brought the prehistoric creatures to life in the most mesmerizing way. Like the book, it's a cautionary tale about unchecked scientific ambition and meddling around too much with Mother Nature, especially for commodification purposes. Crichton used his MD from Harvard Medical School, and ultra-impressive knowledge of biology, to build a world like no other, and both the book and movie have a chilling tone. However, there's really nothing like seeing a majestic Brachiosaurus or a pack of vicious Velociraptors come to life on the big screen. Easy-going Dr. Alan Grant is played superbly here by Sam Neill, and Laura Dern completely shines as Dr. Ellie Sattler in a role originally offered to French actress Juliette Binoche.
Why the movie is better: This grisly psychological thriller by the Coen brothers is probably the best film they've ever made, and that's saying a lot, since these same men brought us the likes of Fargo and Inside Llewyn Davis. Cormac McCarthy penned the original novel and, remarkably, very little was changed for the book's adaptation, including its foreboding tone, surprising twists and turns, and array of well-developed characters. However, unlike in the book, where Sheriff Ed Tom Bell narrates all of the events as he investigates a rural Texas drug deal gone awry, the movie (in which he's expertly portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones) makes use of his monologues via voiceover in between scenes, but it is a technique used sparsely. We also get the magnum opus of Javier Bardem, a stand-out as chillingly sociopathic hitman Anton Chigurh. The resulting adaptation feels just as literary as the novel, but the lack of constant narration makes for a far more natural viewing experience, as the Coens allow viewers to truly immerse themselves in its cynical, nihilistic world. It's no wonder that the film swept at the 2008 Academy Awards, taking home Best Picture, Best Directing, and Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay), with Bardem receiving Best Supporting Actor, as he well should've.
Movie adaptations of books often get a bad rap. And often, it's deserved. Seriously, don't even get us started on The Great Gatsby. (We still love you, Leo.) Or My Sister's Keeper? We did not just pay $12 to see them completely ruin the ending. Luckily, the following 16 films buck the trend of bad film adaptations. From The Notebook to Forrest Gump, read on for movies that are better than the books on which they're based.
While watching movies may be a popular opinion for many, I personally prefer books.They are usually the base and source material for movies, which means it is the original material without any changes or additions as movies might be. For example, movies are required to fit a lot of the plot within a short amount of time, meaning they will almost always end up cutting out some part of the book or significant details.
If you really think about it, the movies are so much more enjoyable. You can watch the action from your favorite books come to life. It is also so cool to see the different ways scenes are interpreted. Sometimes the vision you had in your head when reading a book can be vastly different from the corresponding scene, which is always interesting to see.
I'm really not sure then. I'm going to assume that the JPEG images will be in a color space of sRGB and that your captured moves will have a Rec709 LUT applied to them automatically. Basically, the same color spaces for stills and movies.
The Mountain Between Us, It, Murder on the Orient Express, Wonder, My Cousin Rachel. These films released in 2017 have one thing in common, and you may have guessed it already: They were all books that were later adapted into movies.
Waldfogel crunched the numbers on the 100 best films every year according to the movie-rating site Rotten Tomatoes. He finds that up and down the list, movies are getting rated higher. This is especially apparent for movies at the bottom of the list. The 100th-best movie of 1998, a reboot of the movie Psycho, scored only 38%, an atrocious score. In contrast, the 100th-best movie of 2018 was 24 Frames, which scored an impressive 94%.
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