My all time favorite, no bitches about it book to movie adaptation was Misery.
To me, it was absolutely perfect.
And remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Aims - Sep 30, 2004 6:45:32 am PDT #4290 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Vonnie K - Sep 30, 2004 6:58:28 am PDT #4291 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
The English Patient got a lot of backlash due to the Ralph Fiennes Panty-Throwing Brigade, undeservedly so, I thought. I found it complicated and affecting, although I wished they'd delved deeper into Kip's back-story.
The music in that film was great--the juxtaposition of the vocal of the Hungarian folk singer and the ...Bach, I think, near the end was just gorgeous. Minghella always does an amazing job picking out music for his flicks--I dig the music in his films, even when I don't care much for the flick itself. (e.g. Cold Mountain)
Nutty - Sep 30, 2004 7:11:14 am PDT #4292 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Yes, it was Bach -- the Goldberg variations. I checked, and they even did the research to have Juliette Binoche play the period 1945 arrangement (it has since been rearranged by Glenn Gould, and that's the only version you generally hear these days).
Vonnie K - Sep 30, 2004 7:27:16 am PDT #4293 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Oooh, that is neat. (The faithful period rendition of GV, I mean.) I wonder whether TEP soundtrack has that particular piece?
Another Minghella 'OMG frickin' perfect' music moment is the way he uses the Bach Sonata for Cello & Piano in Truly, Madly, Deeply--first over the credit, then when Jamie's ghost makes his appearance--the way we hear the cello *before* we see Jamie gives me goosebumps.
::melts into heaps with Truly, Madly, Deeply love::
Lee - Sep 30, 2004 7:45:44 am PDT #4294 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Vonnie, I have a question I always ask TMD lovers (of which I am one): do you think his ghost was really appearing, or was it just her wish fulfillment/imagination/need?
Betsy HP - Sep 30, 2004 7:47:00 am PDT #4295 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I think he was really there. If he'd been her wish fulfillment, we wouldn't have seen his viewpoint.
Vonnie K - Sep 30, 2004 7:54:51 am PDT #4296 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Yeap, I agree with Betsy there. It's the last shot of Jamie looking at Nina moving on with the Dove Guy that cinches it, I think. Up until then, it could have been all in Nina's imagination.
§ ita § - Sep 30, 2004 8:25:46 am PDT #4297 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I didn't think she had enough sense to dream him up without making his manifestation extremely self-destructive.
But I liked neither her nor the movie.
Sue - Sep 30, 2004 8:30:03 am PDT #4298 of 10001
hip deep in pie
SuziQ - Sep 30, 2004 8:30:40 am PDT #4299 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Watched West Side Story last night - I have not seen it in YEARS. I was gobsmacked that Anita did not die at the end. It is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet - she is supposed to die. Why did my memory not recall that she lived? Why was I so surprised? I have every song memorized, yet I forgot this. What is up with my brain?
eta: SLUT!