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Posted Sep 12, 2002 by Bumblebee
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  | | I can relate to bumbling.... 
It looks nice and pink, Candi. 
I spent yesterday at home, enjoying the unusual warm September weather dotting around in the garden and reading in the sunshine. I felt this urge to listen to Mozart's Requiem, the melodies was stuck in my mind, so I put it on. Later, on the news, they said that that piece had been played and sung all over the world! Good to know one is in tune...
September 22 is the birthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins as well, Witty!
And welcome to Pinniped (hope I got the name right) .
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Posted Sep 12, 2002 by  Hypatia
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| | Re: BBC America A while back they had two or three episodes of a comedy called "League of Gentlemen" - I think. It was part of a viewers favorites type thing. It was set in a place called Royston Vasey (?) and 4 0r 5 actors played all the parts. Did they only make those episodes? Course I have a sick sense of humor, but I enjoyed it. Also enjoy Midsomer Murders. ( Dare i say it? The books are better than the movies.) Didn't they have some of those on A&E? Liked Farscape a couple of years ago. Don't know why I stopped watching.
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Posted Sep 12, 2002 by marvthegrate LtG KEA
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| | That leads me to a hypothetical question... Are there any examples of either a television show or a film that is made based on a book that is better or equal to the book?
I rather think not. The closest that I can come to an almost equal relationship is the film "Stand By Me" and the novella which it is based on "The Body" authored by my least favourite american author Stephen King.
Any other thoughts on films/TV that come close to their printed counterpart?
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Posted Sep 12, 2002 by Hypatia
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IMHO the ones that come the closest are the BBC productions that are shown on Mystery on PBS. I'm thinking in particular about the Sherlock Holmes series and the Miss Marples. But, I agree that it's almost impossible to find a movie made from a book that isn't disappointing.
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Posted Sep 12, 2002 by Garius Lupus
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| | I can't think, off hand, of any movies that were better than the book. But I do find that sometimes having read the book makes the movie better, and sometimes it makes it worse. For example, both the Harry Potter movie and the first Lord of the Rings movie were better because I had read the books - I could fill in the missing bits, and knew the characters well already. On the other hand, a number of years ago, I had just read Dune and had loved it and had bought the next few in the serries to read. Then the movie came out and I saw it and hated it. The images in my mind had been very different and much richer than those shown. The movie so turned me off that I didn't want to read the follow-on novels. It took probably 10 years before I finally reread the first novel and the follow-on ones.
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Posted Sep 12, 2002 by marvthegrate LtG KEA
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| | The David Lynch Dune was (I know this should start a riot) pretty good in my estimation. I just dont think of it as the same story. Another good example of this is Heinlins Starship Troopers. The movie was pretty good as long as you do not consider it to be the same story as the book.
Harry Potter is a good example of making a decent film from a book. I should have thought of it. The books are far better, however the films casting director did a fantastic job of finding kids to fill the roles of the children in teh books.
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Posted Sep 12, 2002 by FG
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| | Personally, I thought the Harry Potter movie was so close to the book that one could either read the book or see the flick, but there was no need to do both. Typical Chris Columbus, he sucks the life out of everything.
A&E did show episodes of Midsomer Murders. And recently, PBS' Mystery had the "Dark Rooms: the Early Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes" (or something to that effect). I don't think it was adapted from a book, but boy! that was some excellent TV. I can see that Sir Ian Richardson is rapidly taking on the Elder Statesman of English Dramatics mantle from the late Sir John Gielgud.
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