Sharni, that is a great example of a good one, but took 5 tries. The first 4 versions (all animated or semi-animated mind you) were all horrid, but the movie just needed the right level of special effects and they just got there.

I am an avid book reader and as you all know am a movie nut. I will make an attempt to always read the book first if available. The biggest problem with the conversions are two things in my opinion.

1st biggest loss from book to movie, getting into peoples heads. One of the few movies that did this successfully was The Shipping News. Good series of day dreams that let you really know what was going on in the characters mind.

2nd is the tragedy, there are a lot of books with death and or unhappy endings. Hollywood just cant handle that well and change most books to fit thereselves. Pretty woman the best example, popular movie, but in the book she died of an overdose in the end....more shakspearian, but that isnt what sells nowadays....

Long winded...shutting up now

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