Comments on: Weekly Geeks 2009-10: Worst book-movie adaptation ever! http://unfinishedperson.com/2009/03/14/weekly-geeks-2009-10-worst-book-movie-adaptation-ever/ Sat, 14 Apr 2012 06:01:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: KimB http://unfinishedperson.com/2009/03/14/weekly-geeks-2009-10-worst-book-movie-adaptation-ever/#comment-857 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:36:43 +0000 http://unfinishedperson.com/?p=860#comment-857 I’m sure it’s not the worst, but Frances Mayes writes a wonderful memoir about moving to Tuscany and fixing up an old house there in Under the Tuscan Sun. The movie strays so much from it, throwing in the obligatory romance, and changing the details of Mayes life. The book is a good read, and the movie light fun fluff, but they are only related to each other loosely.

Contrast that with The Princess Bride. Goldman’s good book becomes a masterpiece when it is honed and edited for the screen. Anything dull is gone, but the genius remains. It is brilliantly done.

]]> By: Weekly Geeks v9.10: Worst Movie Adaptations | Literary Escapism http://unfinishedperson.com/2009/03/14/weekly-geeks-2009-10-worst-book-movie-adaptation-ever/#comment-499 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:31:30 +0000 http://unfinishedperson.com/?p=860#comment-499 [...] unfinishedperson 2. Jo 3. pussreboots (Lolita) 4. Kim (page after page) 5. [...]

]]> By: Erika Lynn http://unfinishedperson.com/2009/03/14/weekly-geeks-2009-10-worst-book-movie-adaptation-ever/#comment-498 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:24:33 +0000 http://unfinishedperson.com/?p=860#comment-498 I love Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath but I have never seen the movie and now i am glad. thanks!

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