Adaptation

ice nine · Post by **ice nine** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:38 pm

I watched the excellent movie Adaptation. I find that the books that the film was based upon is usaully better than the movie. I know that the book it is based upon, The Orchid Thief is not the story of the movie, but as long as the genesis for the idea of the movie is in the book it has to be good. Has anyone read the book?

Thanks

Post by **BlueChair** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:00 pm

I got about a quarter of the way through somehow... it's an extremely dull book. I wouldn't even really say the film is based on it so much as that it features it as part of the story.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:53 pm

I've only seen the film, which I liked a lot. The man of the house has seen the movie and read the book, and he agrees that the book is extraordinarily boring and self-indulgent, and nothing at all like the movie.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:07 pm

Another truism seems to be that book-length versions of New Yorker articles are never as good as the pieces on which they are based. I thought the original article was riveting.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:21 pm

But is that really Meryl Streep naked at the end..or a body double?

scielle · Post by **scielle** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:55 pm

Well, I've seen Adaptation before but never noticed until today when I watched it on CityTV - there's a boy-meets-girl scene where Alison is playing in the background - and it's a fairly long scene so we get most of the song

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:21 am

selfmademug wrote:Another truism seems to be that book-length versions of New Yorker articles are never as good as the pieces on which they are based. I thought the original article was riveting.

Wasn't Brokeback Mountain originally a short story in the New Yorker? Or is that what you're referring to?

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:07 am

By jove I think it was. Though I didn't read it, so can't judge. Did you? How did it compare to the film?

I was thinking more of the non-fiction pieces, I guess.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:47 am

I didn't read it either, but I thought the film was beautiful.

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:48 am

Ditto that.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:07 pm

Annie Proulx story.

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:19 pm

yeah.. originally in the New Yorker, as MBA noted.