I am quite excited to hear that there is a Blade Runner follow up coming out. Blade Runner is one of my favourite films, however I didn't go to see it for years, as a protest at the renaming of the film 'for American Audiences'. The Phillip K Dick book is called 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'.
So I thought I'd make a quick list of great books that made good films.
1. Do androids dream of electric sheep. Released as Blade Runner.
2. Schindlers Ark. Released as Schindlers list
3. Trainspotting.
4. Gone with Wind.
5. The Jungle Book (1967 animated version)
6. A kestrel for a Knave, released as Kes
7. The importance of being Ernest (1952 version)
8. Little Big Man
9. The Godfather
10. Dr No
There is another list to be made, the worst book adaptions. Dune springs to mind as perhaps the worst sci if adaption. Not too keen on Pochohontas either. What would be your best/worst?
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE,GREAT BOOK AND WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT FILM IF KUBRICK HAD HAVE INCLUDED THE LAST CHAPTER,HE MISSED THE POINT COMPLETLY!!!
ReplyDeleteAlso,the book was written by Anthony Burgess in 1962!The only youth culture that existed then was the teddy boys(no skins,bootboys or links to base the story on)THATS WHAT YOU CALL A VISIONARY!And filmed in Borehamwood Wood (AS YOU KNOW,RODG,NOT FAR FROM MILL HILL!!)
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