HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agoWhat was the worst bastardization of a classic book into a movie?message-squaremessage-square326fedilinkarrow-up1190arrow-down15
arrow-up1185arrow-down1message-squareWhat was the worst bastardization of a classic book into a movie?HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square326fedilink
minus-squarechriscrutchlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44arrow-down2·10 months agoNo one appears to have yet mentioned Forrest Gump. In the book he was a chess grandmaster who wrestled professionally and was an astronaut. Also, the book sucks.
minus-squareMothra@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·10 months agoI haven’t watched or read it. Are you saying the movie is better than the book in spite of bastardizing it?
minus-squaremub@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·10 months agoYip. Also, they were very slightly totally different.
minus-squareGarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoI think the book was written to be satire and the movie is, uh, comedic but in a much less pointed way
minus-squareUlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·10 months agoLiberalism and Great Man Theory, name a more iconic pair.
minus-squarethisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agothe book as an audiobook is good Forrest was a POS and he was a bum because he knew it!
No one appears to have yet mentioned Forrest Gump. In the book he was a chess grandmaster who wrestled professionally and was an astronaut. Also, the book sucks.
I haven’t watched or read it. Are you saying the movie is better than the book in spite of bastardizing it?
Yip. Also, they were very slightly totally different.
I think the book was written to be satire and the movie is, uh, comedic but in a much less pointed way
Liberalism and Great Man Theory, name a more iconic pair.
the book as an audiobook is good
Forrest was a POS and he was a bum because he knew it!