What books or pieces of literature did you enjoy reading but were horrified by the adaptation of it for the silver screen?
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I have seen Bram Stoker's Dracula before reading the book. It is one of my all time favorite movies...visually it was amazing and you gotta love Gary Oldman! I love the fact too that all these years of knowing Romanian made me chuckled at the subtitles for they werent dead on translation. Anyway, the book was offered for me read in AP English-years ago-it was that or 1984...of course, Dracula! Anyway, love it too...and was impressed at the organization of it. I thought the movie complimented the book wonderfully and created a more appealing villain than the book. NOW..recently, and thanks to Jim for pointing it out....I saw Twilight and in the process of finishing the book Breaking Down-I was a bit disappointed. Not with the direction of it and I know about the editing and condensing need to be done to transform a book into a movie but it was a bit painful to watch at how, i didnt see what reviews were raving about. I thought the casting of Bella was horrible. She spent the whole movie with her mouth open-it was so distracting! She's supposed to have a heart shaped face-this girl was crescent mooned shaped! BOO!
I have never read The Count of Mount Crisco but have seen the movie several times, even during an international flight was entirely entertained. I loved it too I have yet to read the book :)
Maybe one should see the movie first and than read the book and might find the two complimenting each other...but there seems to be more disappointment when one reads first and than views the movie. Thats what i've noticed at least with me.