Book to Film
Copying Jason Kottke in copying Michael Hanscom by annotating The Guardian’s list of the best book->movie adaptaions according to which versions I’ve consumed. (The paper calls it a ‘top 50′ list, but there are 51 entries…)
1. [B]1984
2. [BM]Alice in Wonderland
3. [BM]American Psycho
4. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
5. Brighton Rock
6. [BM]Catch 22
7. [BM]Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
8. [BM]A Clockwork Orange
9. Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
10. [BM]The Day of the Triffids
11. Devil in a Blue Dress
12. [M]Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
13. [BM]Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)
14. Doctor Zhivago
15. [M]Empire of the Sun
16. The English Patient
17. [BM]Fight Club
18. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
19. [M]Get Shorty
20. [M]The Godfather
21. [BM]Goldfinger
22. [M]Goodfellas
23. [BM]Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)
24. [B]The Hound of the Baskervilles
25. [M]Jaws
26. [M]The Jungle Book
27. [B]A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes) [No idea how I've managed to avoid the film for so long]
28. [BM]LA Confidential
29. Les Liaisons Dangereuses
30. Lolita
31. [B]Lord of the Flies
32. [M]The Maltese Falcon
33. [B]Oliver Twist [I actually might have seen all of the 1948 movie, but never at one sitting. Apparently I can't watch more than 30 minutes of it without being bored to tears.]
34. [BM]One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
35. Orlando
36. [B]The Outsiders
37. [M]Pride and Prejudice [Well, various TV adaptations, and again never all the way through. Too much simpering.]
38. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
39. [M]The Railway Children [again, TV rather than movie]
40. [M]Rebecca
41. [B]The Remains of the Day
42. Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List)
43. [BM]Sin City
44. [B]The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
45. [B]The Talented Mr Ripley
46. [B]Tess of the D’Urbervilles
47. Through a Glass Darkly
48. [B]To Kill a Mockingbird
49. [BM]Trainspotting
50. The Vanishing
51. [M]Watership Down
Movies win by 1! Less effort/less time FTW, it would appear.