Well, hello, all! Following the same theme as Fernanda, I'm here to talk about movies and books. Many movies are based on books and, despite many books were written much before the film was made, generally the books get famous because of the films. Good examples are "Lord of Rings", "Da Vinci Code", "The Chronicles of Narnia", "The mists of avalon", "Dracula" and "Harry Potter", all of them huge Hollywood successes. There are also the brazilian examples, like "O Primo Basílio", "O Xangô de Baker Street", "Olga" and the famous title "Ensaio sobre a cegueira", written by the fantastic portuguese writer José Saramago. Personaly, every time I see a film based on a book that I have already read, I get disappointed. I allways imagine different faces and voices to the characters and things happen much faster on movies, with much less details. "Lord of Rings" is a good example. Token, the author, was so perfectionist that he rewrote many pages of the book because the phase of the moon did not match to the time passed on the story. No movie can describe this sort of thing so perfectly.
Cláudia.
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Claudia, I beg to disagree! How dare you say The Lord of the Rings - in existance for the best part of a century and having inspired a myriad of books, rpgs, computer game and gothic rock bands owns its fame to the film?
Ok, it may have become familiar to the great masses of the people, but it was already a classic and a most influential book before that.
Other than that (sorry for the nitpicking) I completely agree. One thing that I think that concurs to the same feeling is that directors and producers aways do procure "adaptations" in transposing the story to the big screen. I have yet to find a film that has not been marred by such changes!
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