A Conversation for Talking Point: Is The Movie Ever Better Than The Book?
The Remains of the Day
Methos (one half of the HHH Management) Started conversation Oct 22, 2003
"The film adaption of "The Remains of the Day" is one of the few I find really, really well done. It captures the atmossphere of the book perfectly. I also like the Harry Potter-movies.
Mostly I'm not too keen to watch a movie based on a book I've already read since I can get pretty annoyed about the tiniest details. Like the wrong hair colour or things like that.
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The Remains of the Day
RFJS__ - trying to write an unreadable book, finding proofreading tricky Posted Dec 9, 2003
I agree about the quality of both book and film -- but although the atmosphere was retained, some changes were made. The upshot of this was that, having read the book before watching the film, I was occasionally jerked out of immersion when I noticed some discrepancy or other. Then again, the book was one of my A-level English Lit. texts, so I had to take an analytic/objective view of the story anyway.
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GodBen (The Magical Astronomer) - 00000011 Posted Dec 9, 2003
I found that the movie didn't seem to know where it was going; it was just like a collection of stories. While this may also be true about the book, the book dosen't seem that way when you read it. It has an undercurent that the movie didn't have.
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