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It starts like this. A visit to a large red discount house to trawl through the cheap DVDs. There is a little stack of "Great Adaptations" - a sales gimmick where the DVD of a classic movie is paired with the novel it is based on. Given the bargain bin status of these packages, I suspect it hasn't been a marketplace winner. Perhaps not a surprise given that Macbeth is one of the movie+novel combinations - I wonder what novel was hiding in that shinkwrap.
But then I spotted All Quiet on the Western Front. Score! A superbly powerful book coupled with an equally powerful 1930 movie. I'm hard put to think of a better combination although I suspect that you will all have your own ideas about that.
I finishes like this. I thought I'd have a quick look at the IMDB page for the film. Then I found this. *Shudder* I know I should keep an open mind but "sweeping Hollywood epic" and "by creating new storylines ourselves" aren't a good sign.
But then I spotted All Quiet on the Western Front. Score! A superbly powerful book coupled with an equally powerful 1930 movie. I'm hard put to think of a better combination although I suspect that you will all have your own ideas about that.
I finishes like this. I thought I'd have a quick look at the IMDB page for the film. Then I found this. *Shudder* I know I should keep an open mind but "sweeping Hollywood epic" and "by creating new storylines ourselves" aren't a good sign.