What's the most faithful adaption of a book to film, regardless of quality?

What's the most faithful adaption of a book to film, regardless of quality?

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Three Musketeers, Gene Kelly version

Fight Club. Chuck Pahluniuk says it's better, even.

Stand By Me

Yeah... but the end is very different.

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Fight club was nearly perfect

The rules of attraction

Patriotism (Mishima, 1966)
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>all these answers
>no memes

Thunderball is really damn close, considering Ian Fleming wrote it first as a screenplay then just made it a novel instead

>most faithful adaption
>regardless of quality

what are you,autist?

I recall No Country For Old Men being pretty faithful.

this. the only two parts of it left out were the ones that should ave been left out. i would say it was perfect

Watchmen.

Holes.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

You can't deny it.

Not really a book, but the Watchmen movie was pretty spot on when it comes to adapting the story to film.

Too bad Ozymandias was turned into a fagboy manlet

Sorcerer's stone was far more faithful.

The Shining

No it wasn't *

You may have thought the quality was good, but it wasn't purely true to the book and that's what this thread is about.

Except the grand plot is completely different, so it's obviously not a 1:1 adaptation.

Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet

A scanner darkly

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i can hear stephen grumbling

I read the LOTR books before each of the movies, and I recall the Two Towers to be surprisingly accurate

Its a very close match to the book, very close. Considering it was such a short story.

Hard to find much else that close.

The Hobbit.

Lol...

Dune

Michael Haneke's adaptation of Kafka's unfinished novel The Castle ends when a character is in mid-sentence.

Pretty damn close, yeah

80s version of 1984.

Are you serious?

Choke was more accurate to the book than Fight Club

But it seems Chuck Pahluniuk books were just made for the screen

Probably some Straub/Huillet film.

It's been years since I saw the movie or read the book. Was it not that accurate?

Troy

The Shawshank Redemption from Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. Other than Red being played by Morgan Freeman when the book version was an Irishman, the movie was identical to the book. No scenes were even omitted, like they usually are for time reasons.

If you believe this you are brain damaged.

I take it you've never read the Iliad?

>nothing about the gods interaction with the mortals and demi-humans
>faithful adaptation

kek

Movie had a new ending. The novella ends with Red boarding a bus, IIRC.

>all the b8 people are falling for

The Elves never came to Rohan's aid.

The Ents decide to go to war on their own accord.

Aragorn never almost died / got separated from the Rohirrim.

Eomer is not banished and is present at the battle of Helm's Deep; Erkenbrand is the man who arrives with Gandalf at the end of the battle.

Theoden sends his people to Dunharrow, not Helm's Deep for refuge.

Frodo and Sam going to Osgiliath is entirely fabricated. Also, Faramir desiring the ring was seen as a huge character change.

That's just a few things I can list off without much effort.

Philosopher's stone.

It's been ages since I read and watched A Clockwork Orange but I remember the movie being pretty faithful to the book

I'll have to go back and reread it. I always found it impressive that they managed to not exclude anything for the movie, but then the movie is almost 3 hours long and book was under 100 pages.

Ten commandments

Edge of Tomorrow.

Good one.

I agree. Misery deserves a mention, too.

>King writes a mediocre book
>Kubrick knows its bad but likes the premise and makes his own version
>it turns out to be infinitely better than the book
>bookfags are still butthurt to this day

I didn't see any native american brown girl engineers in dat movie.

Seriously, why do people think Lynch's Dune wasn't a faithful adaptation? Obviously many elements were minimized or deleted for time but when it comes to dialogue, characterization, and the majority of the plot, it stays very close to the novel. It's a flawed movie but it was a competent adaptation.

Maybe A Clockwork Orange, except the ending. A lot of the dialogue is straight from the book.

no not at all

Because it drops the entire idea that paul wasn't a hero, just another tyrant.

came here to post this. /thread. literally scene for scene exactly the same as the book

It being Manhattan and not "Aliens" was actually a good change.

this

pffftttttttttttttttttt

no

>american superweapon goes berserk
>america isn't blamed
>ww3 doesn't instantly start

nah

You seem to forget that America lost more cities than Russia. Maybe you should learn to pay attention, I know the movie was long but still.

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You forgot the fact that the "americlap" superweapon also destroyed america

The Hogfather was pretty faithful IIRC.

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At the height of the cold war, the russians would firmly believe those reports were misinformation.

The US would believe manhattan defected and the reports of russian cities being destroyed were misinformation.

every ICBM in both arsenals would be in the air within minutes of cities being destroyed by manhattan with neither side willing to be the first to stand down.

but hey, this is easy trolling, right?

Sin city is probably try closest adaption to its written material that I've ever seen.

The smallest change was dwights inner monologue about Marv in the first movie was meant for the story a dame to kill for. Other than that it was basically the same as the comic

Outside of removing the part where Marie gets gangraped in the back of a car this was a very faithful adaption

Sure thing buddy, sure thing

Read the story before, but this is the first time I've seen the film. Why'd Mishima go with English instead of Kanji for the intro?

In the book Achilles only beat hector cause the God of the sun blinded hector.

Also yeah there was interactions with the gods and shit. So yeah you're pretty wrong on that....good movie though....good book too

Considering there wasn't a single nuclear launch and nearly a dozen cities in the world got wiped. Theres no way they would believe that was common misinformation given the extraordinary circumstances.

I don't think you understand something child, the Cold War remained Cold because the Soviets, and Americans weren't stupid. They would've had a dozen chances to blow the world up, but they didn't because they didn't slam keys in and buttons down at the first sight they believed something bad happened.

Not to mention Manhattan had a mental breakdown on live TV, of which the Soviets would very obviously have been informed of. THEY EVEN mention it in the movie that they up their invasion in Afghanistan because Manhattan is gone. Him going crazy and blowing everything up makes perfect sense. You dumb fuck

David Lean's Great Expectations

>No one has posted The Dark Knight Returns.

>there wasn't a single nuclear launch and nearly a dozen cities in the world got wiped

what are you on about

Obviously with no launches Manhattan running around blowing shit up would make sense to the Soviets. They would obviously be aware it wasn't some fake situation. Glad you chose to ignore everything else in the post though even though it disproves what your headcanon is.

>Achilles only beat hector cause the God of the sun blinded hector
You know that's wrong right?

Or Sin City

Sin city has beem posted

Like 90 % sure it's right. It might've been a different God. But I do remember some god interfering with the fight when hector got the upper hand and then got him killed, and i got really pissed when it happened.

If you can prove otherwise go ahead, I won't argue, but I'm more than positive that's what happens

I'm still not following your non-logic here.

you're saying the because the russians knew it was manhattan that destroyed MOSCOW, and not a nuclear weapon, even thought manhattan was the US of A's ultimate weapon and ultimate nuclear deterrent and nuclear defense, in the setting, they would just be fine with an american super weapon destroying their centers of government? Because they'd somehow instantly (magically) know it wasn't just russian cities and completely trust the reports of US cities being vaporized?

Problem Child 2

You know that scene that Nixon stands in front of, and watches the entire East Coast Explode and vanish?

Do you honestly believe that singular bit of technology is only in America? Do you honestly think a dozen of the worlds largest cities could all suddenly explode, and the Russians would just go "Nah its misinformation launch the nukes"

I'm glad you never had a say in the Cold War we'd all be dead because you saw a fucking flock of geese.

Hector never had the upperhand, ever. Athena did some shenanigans with a spear or something but it wasn't the reason why Achilles won, he just straight up beasted Hector on his own.

Read a proper translation of the Iliad instead of some hack authors interpretation, i'm not gonna go out of my way to educate you.

Re-read the OP.

>not a book
Pleb

Not even close. It's Bourne in name only, the Jews used the source material for toilet paper to wipe their Jew ass.

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bait?

>millions of people dying in a clear attack from a known to be mentally unstable sentient ameircan superweapon
>a flock of geese

You said earlier. The cold war stayed cold because of mutually assured destruction.

manhattan striking first would kick the war out of coldness.

You don't know about the flock of geese thing? Or the balloons? Jesus man how long did you live under that rock?

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If you seen this movie, you've essentially "read" the book. The parts left out were the sub plot involving Johnny Fontaine and the vagina doctor. Godfather part 2 uses Vito's story from the book as well

Not educating me. As far as I see it, I'm right and you got it wrong. Literally the first part shown in the book everyone was cheering for hector that he's got Achilles and to finish him.

Re educate your self boyo

again, you're comparing MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DYING, to equipment errors that resulted in no actual casualties.