twiinklex
Looking for some books to read and I wanna explore those that have been adapted into films. A list would be nice but I want to know your favourite. More details on whether you think the film did the book justice would be nice.
Answer
I'm too lazy to type so I'm gonna copy the plot summary from amazon if you don't mind :D
I love all of these books and movie adaptations. I prefer Fight Club book ending. Night Watch movie kinda mixed plots from the first and second books so it was a little confusing but they are all great.
1. Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/
"THE FIRST RULE about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.
Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with whitecollar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter, and dark, anarchic genius, and it's only the beginning of his plans for violent revenge on an empty consumer-culture world."
2. Cormac McCarthy - The Road
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/
"A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthyâs masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they donât know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged foodâand each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, âeach the otherâs world entire,â are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation."
3. Ellis Bret Easton - American Psycho
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/
"Patrick Bateman is Harvard-educated and intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom - doing impermissible things to women. He is living his own "American Dream". "
4. Ian Mcewan - Atonement
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783233/
"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeperâs son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Brionyâs sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge.
By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girlâs scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life."
5. Neil Gaiman - Coraline
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327597/
"In Coraline's family's new flat there's a locked door. On the other side is a brick wallâuntil Coraline unlocks the door . . . and finds a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.
Only different.
The food is better there. Books have pictures that writhe and crawl and shimmer. And there's another mother and father there who want Coraline to be their little girl. They want to change her and keep her with them. . . . Forever. "
6. Sergei Lukyanenko - Night Watch
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403358/
"Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage. "
7. Stieg Larsson - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy 1)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568346/
"Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption."
EDIT:
I'm too lazy to type so I'm gonna copy the plot summary from amazon if you don't mind :D
I love all of these books and movie adaptations. I prefer Fight Club book ending. Night Watch movie kinda mixed plots from the first and second books so it was a little confusing but they are all great.
1. Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/
"THE FIRST RULE about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.
Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with whitecollar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter, and dark, anarchic genius, and it's only the beginning of his plans for violent revenge on an empty consumer-culture world."
2. Cormac McCarthy - The Road
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/
"A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthyâs masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they donât know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged foodâand each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, âeach the otherâs world entire,â are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation."
3. Ellis Bret Easton - American Psycho
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/
"Patrick Bateman is Harvard-educated and intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom - doing impermissible things to women. He is living his own "American Dream". "
4. Ian Mcewan - Atonement
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783233/
"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeperâs son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Brionyâs sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge.
By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girlâs scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life."
5. Neil Gaiman - Coraline
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327597/
"In Coraline's family's new flat there's a locked door. On the other side is a brick wallâuntil Coraline unlocks the door . . . and finds a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.
Only different.
The food is better there. Books have pictures that writhe and crawl and shimmer. And there's another mother and father there who want Coraline to be their little girl. They want to change her and keep her with them. . . . Forever. "
6. Sergei Lukyanenko - Night Watch
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403358/
"Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage. "
7. Stieg Larsson - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy 1)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568346/
"Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption."
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Can I get my book made into a professionally made movie?
James
Hey guys. I'm a writer who is having his very first book published soon. My ultimate dream one day is that my books really take off and be made into a movie.
I was wondering that if my books don't take off as much as I like, but everyone still like my books, can I pay a company to have it professionally made? A company like all those other books that have been made into movies by Warner Bros. and all those others. Thanks. Please don't shoot me down with yoru answers.
Answer
The reason Hollywood adapts books into movies is because the books already have a built-in audience - half the marketing work has been done for them. So if your book isn't successful, they're not going to be interested in making a movie of it.
I suppose in theory there's no reason why you couldn't pay to have a movie made, but before you get your hopes up, you might want to trawl through the recent releases on imdb.com and note how much of a budget each one had. (I'll save you the bother - the going rate for a Hollywood movie is about $100 million these days.) Bear in mind that's just the cost of making the movie, not the cost of promoting or distributing it (getting it into theatres).
If you're willing to scale back your ambitions (and to a certain extent if you get friendly with the right people) you can do it for a lot less. If you have a good script, or a film that sounds as though it might be fun to work on, actors and crew will sometimes help out for free or for low wages - sometimes because they enjoy it, sometimes because they think it will lead to bigger and better things.
I managed to get the help of several professional and semi-pro people to make a 3-minute trailer for one of my books - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlrv7_uVps But I already knew most of them, and even though most of them gave "only" a day or two of their time, it took six months to make. They wouldn't have worked for nothing for the amount of time it takes to make a 2-hour film.
The reason Hollywood adapts books into movies is because the books already have a built-in audience - half the marketing work has been done for them. So if your book isn't successful, they're not going to be interested in making a movie of it.
I suppose in theory there's no reason why you couldn't pay to have a movie made, but before you get your hopes up, you might want to trawl through the recent releases on imdb.com and note how much of a budget each one had. (I'll save you the bother - the going rate for a Hollywood movie is about $100 million these days.) Bear in mind that's just the cost of making the movie, not the cost of promoting or distributing it (getting it into theatres).
If you're willing to scale back your ambitions (and to a certain extent if you get friendly with the right people) you can do it for a lot less. If you have a good script, or a film that sounds as though it might be fun to work on, actors and crew will sometimes help out for free or for low wages - sometimes because they enjoy it, sometimes because they think it will lead to bigger and better things.
I managed to get the help of several professional and semi-pro people to make a 3-minute trailer for one of my books - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlrv7_uVps But I already knew most of them, and even though most of them gave "only" a day or two of their time, it took six months to make. They wouldn't have worked for nothing for the amount of time it takes to make a 2-hour film.
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