@CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 29 days agoWhich adaptation do you think has surpassed its source material in quality?message-square148fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down16
arrow-up199arrow-down1message-squareWhich adaptation do you think has surpassed its source material in quality?@CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 29 days agomessage-square148fedilink
minus-square@dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilink29•29 days agoPretty much everyone who’s discussed it agrees The Godfather (film) blows the Puzo novel it adapted away. Runner up is Adaptation, an adaptation of the novel The Orchid Thief that expands its scope significantly.
minus-squareChe Bananalinkfedilink6•29 days agoAdaptation was one of those movies I watched and then caught myself thinking about it through the year…a very well done movie.
minus-square@Zahille7@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•edit-229 days agoThe movies made me want to read the book. I still haven’t yet though. I still get chills when I hear “you’re nothing to me now, Fredo.”
minus-square@Statlerwaldorf@midwest.sociallinkfedilink2•28 days agoThe Godfather book has a lot of great character nuances but it also has a subplot of Sonny’s enormous dong being the only thing that could satisfy his wife’s bridesmaid’s enormous vagina.
Pretty much everyone who’s discussed it agrees The Godfather (film) blows the Puzo novel it adapted away.
Runner up is Adaptation, an adaptation of the novel The Orchid Thief that expands its scope significantly.
Adaptation was one of those movies I watched and then caught myself thinking about it through the year…a very well done movie.
The movies made me want to read the book. I still haven’t yet though.
I still get chills when I hear “you’re nothing to me now, Fredo.”
The Godfather book has a lot of great character nuances but it also has a subplot of Sonny’s enormous dong being the only thing that could satisfy his wife’s bridesmaid’s enormous vagina.