Whether or not you loved The Road , most people seemed to finger it captured Cormac McCarthy ’s novel . unhappily , most adaptations do vehemence to the original books , but not all . Here are 12 SF / phantasy adaptations that did decent by the books .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcGgUiy4B1E
The Lost World ( 1925 )
There have been many movie version of Arthur Conan Doyle ’s 1912 novel , but for our money , the pilot is still the best , thanks to some reasonably awe-inspiring give up - motion vitality showing dinosaurs trashing London . The groundbreaking special effects , by Willis O’Brien , give ascension to late classic like the original King Kong — and O’Brien trained Ray Harryhausen . This is also the only preoccupied World adaptation that Conan Doyle seems to have approved of personally . The whole affair is on Youtube , and here ’s the orgasm — skip to about 4:58 for the beginning of the dinosaur - violent disorder awesomeness .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqlE2iQByRk
20,000 league Under The Sea
Sure , it ’s a Disney movie , and it ’s get Kirk Douglas singing “ A Whale Of A Tale . ” But it also has James Mason ’s understated , creeptastic performance as Captain Nemo , full of subtle menace . And the special effects still look jolly breathtaking , even 55 years subsequently . Most of all , it catch the wonder and unbounded peculiarity of Verne ’s book .
Fahrenheit 451
The original film version of Ray Bradbury ’s Quran - burning classic is a vivid , shocking masterpiece — I see it as a Kyd , and it still sticks in my mind . But what did Bradbury recollect ? He publish , in the introduction to one edition of the novel :
And what do I suppose of the plastic film ?
I have listen those cries in the yesteryear of outraged authors whose books have just been gang - raped by a studio .
Such is not the case , luckily , with me .
I think that Truffaut has captured the soul and essence of the book . He has been careful and subtle in his shadings and motions . He has escaped have a technical James Bond film , and made , rather , the love account of , not a Isle of Man and a cleaning lady , but a military personnel and a subroutine library , a man and a book . An unbelievable love story indeed in this day when libraries , once more , are burn across the Earth .
I am very thankful .
Clockwork Orange
According to Wikipedia(although it ’s not source ) , original novelist Anthony Burgess felt Stanley Kubrick ’s pic was bright — but almost too magnificent for our own safety . Whether Burgess really read that , he ’ll get no disputation from the hordes of people who ’ve loved this uncompromising , beastly look at rowdy and social control in a dystopian time to come . It ’s Kubrick at the top of his game , honour and transforming the source textile . ( mark : We considered including 2001 as well , but since the volume was written after the moving-picture show , we decide against . )
Blade Runner
Yes , this moving-picture show conduct some liberties with Philip K. Dick ’s “ Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep ? ” But it ’s also one of the best reflections of Dick ’s constant paranoia and flood - of - bizarreness storytelling methods . And of course of action , Dick himselfwrote an ecstatic letterpraising this film ’s visual sense and his belief that it would re - energise scientific discipline fiction altogether .
https://gizmodo.com/dick-believed-blade-runner-would-revive-a-dying-genre-5380798
1984 ( 1984 )
It was almost required that this year would see a movie based on the far-famed George Orwell novel . Thank goodness this one did n’t commit the thought crime of bastardizing Orwell ’s story of a totalitarian high society that controls its subjects with unceasing surveillance and “ newspeak . ” It ’s worth tracking the director ’s weakened videodisk which restores Michael Radford ’s original cutting colour palette and the original orchestral score ( with no Eurythmics . )
Bram Stoker ’s Dracula
Of all the Dracula flick throughout the years , Francis Ford Coppola ’s version came closest to capturing the original novel ’s darkness , with Gary Oldman making for a captivating Dracula . The whole affair drips with sensuality , thanks to some implausibly beautiful designs . ( Screencaps fromDVDBeaver . )
Handmaid ’s Tale
This was atroubled product , in which the original director dropped out and screenwriter Harold Pinter washed his hand of the thing . That meant that original novelist Margaret Atwood , among others , stepped in to retool the screenplay . Despite the problems , theresulting filmpreserves the fundamental themes of Atwood ’s novel , about a fundamentalist polish in which many adult female are sterile and the few fertile woman are consecrate to high up - place duet to give birth to their heir . More importantly , it ’s a harrowing , weird epic .
https://gizmodo.com/must-see-the-handmaids-tale-305369
Lord Of The Rings
Peter Jackson takes some liberties with J.R.R. Tolkien ’s epic three - intensity novel , but nobody would abnegate that the resulting movie trilogy really is epic , and really does bring just why so many of us fall in love with these Christian Bible in the first place . The full - duration DVD versions of all three moving picture will take you the better part of a daytime to watch , but it ’s an absorbing story and never lose the feeling of great events assume place .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRW1cHiILjU
Call Of Cthulhu
This 2005 silent motion-picture show occur the close of all the many H.P. Lovecraft adaptations of doing a uncoiled - up recreation of Lovecraft ’s world . The campiness and cheekiness are kept to a minimum , and in their home , you see only the utter stateliness of Cthulhu . The Old Ones are , the Old Ones were , the Old Ones shall be , indeed .
fry Of Men
We debated whether to include this one , since it makes such a radical change to the Bible ’s plot line — in the Christian Bible , it ’s human being , not women , who are infertile . But this , and several other drastic change from P.D. James ’ Word of God , do n’t detract from the fact that film director Alfonso Cuarón crafts a jolly gripping film in its own right , which preserve the dystopian feel and obsession with reproduction from the book . And the celluloid ’s use of long , single - shot sequences in which vast outcome feel like they ’re fall out all around you , pass water it intemperate to forget afterwards . Here ’s a video about the fashioning of the movie , include those amazing long takes . And apparently , James herselfwas felicitous with it .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz9jQxgpTO0
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick has probably had more of his books adapted to films than any other SF generator — but Richard Linklater ’s film adaptation of his hugger-mugger narc tripfest does the best possible Book of Job of founder you an audiovisual tour of Dick ’s universe . keep an eye on this film , you feel as though you get to understand what it might have been like to be Philip K. Dick — which is terrorise in itself .
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