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Best & Worst Books to Movies
Orbert:
Wow, if we're gonna get in Shakespeare, that's a whole category of its own. I like some of the ones where they follow the original words exactly, but totally change the setting. Romeo + Juliet was kinda cool that way. Pretty creative.
McTaggart:
Yeah, Baz Lurhman's Romeo + Juliet was enjoyable all the way. Franco Zefferelli's one (I think that was his name, we had to watch this in english in highschool was uniformly bland and dated. The only real enjoyment to come from it was 'do you bite your thumb at me, sir' becoming one of the phrases that people started using in everyday conversation.
bujiatang:
--- Quote from: Orbert on 19 Mar 2007, 10:13 ---The Scouring of the Shire definitely should have been included. The only thing I can defend that with is that the ending in its final form went on and on forever. Goodbyes and farewells and see-you-laters for like 40 minutes. Great flick, but I was actually relieved when it was over.
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Wasn't it Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with a fat Val Kilmer where they make fun of the never ending end to the movie... best part of the mucking fovie.
camelpimp:
--- Quote from: BrittanyMarie on 17 Mar 2007, 00:15 ---How was McMurphy much different? I read the book first, and the character in my head was a lot like how Nicholson played it.
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Well, physically (and before anyone points this out, I do know it's silly pointing it out) Nicholson looks nothing like how McMurphy is described in the book. Considering how much ado is made in the book about his "rugged" and "manly" appearance, the movie version of the character seems slightly off to me. Secondly, the way Nicholson played the character he lacked the sort of snake oil salesmen charm the character orginally had. He became and orginary skeeze, while in the book he was... well still a skeeze. But... a charming skeeze? I dunno.
Orbert:
But that's all through Chief Bromden's eyes. Remember that at the beginning of the book, Chief Bromden is bummed because he's so small. They did something to him to make him small, and at some point much later, he notices that he's big again, and wonders how McMurphy did that. At the end, he comments on how there's no way that's McMurphy. He's too small. Where are those huge arms? He's just not big enough. Why? Because the light has gone out in his eyes. McMurphy "in reality" may not be a very big man at all, but because he's loud and cocky, he seems larger than life. After the procedure, he's small.
Chief Bromden is a huge man, but originally thought McMurphy was much bigger than him. It's all perception. That's one of the points of the story.
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