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nicolas Platinum Member Offline Toi mon amour, toi qui a le cœur lourd mon amour Posts: 1,100 Location: Sur le canapé avec chips/rosé. Joined: 15. Apr 2006 Gender:	Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. 19. Apr 2006 at 15:55	Print Post
	Novels that have films of the same story... but are not complete literary adaptations, usually due to costume or activity. Some may need to be trimmed due to the length of a novel, but oft' times a scene is changed completely for no apparant reason. Ten films that would be great to see follow the novel exactly as the books describe, (i.e. no cutting of scenes, no changing of wording or apparel), for "Masterpiece Theatre", where length of film is insignificant..... 1) Where The River Runs Black 2) The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer 3) Walkabout 4) Old Yeller 5) Savage Sam (sequel to Old Yeller) 6) Pelle Erobreren 7) A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court 8 ) Second Best 9 ) The Yearling 10) The Great Brain
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cal-Q-L8 Platinum Member Offline Admin Posts: 8,002 Location: Australia Joined: 30. Oct 2001 Gender:	Re: Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. Reply #1 - 19. Apr 2006 at 23:41	Print Post
	Books I've read that I'd like to direct: A quick list off the top of my head... 1) Ender's Game 2) Lord of the Flies 3) For a Lost Soldier 4) Tarzan (the 'boy' years) 5) The Blue Lagoon 6) Walkabout 7) Man Without a Face


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nicolas Platinum Member Offline Toi mon amour, toi qui a le cœur lourd mon amour Posts: 1,100 Location: Sur le canapé avec chips/rosé. Joined: 15. Apr 2006 Gender:	Re: Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. Reply #2 - 28. May 2006 at 02:04	Print Post
	Two films that are almost 'word-for-word' with their respective novels.....in the scenes they had time to film...... but do not have the courage to film the child actor 'naturally' in a scene...... are: "SECOND BEST" (1994) book and screenplay written by David Cook. "A PERFECT WORLD" (John Lee Hancock / Dewey Gram)


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hosenhaus BA Moderator Offline spheroid Posts: 4,507 Joined: 30. Oct 2001 Gender:	Re: Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. Reply #3 - 28. May 2006 at 04:49	Print Post
	How about this quiz: the American movie that ADDED a boy nude scene, not in the book.


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Wildeboy Gold Member Offline Teen Alexander Posts: 448 Joined: 30. Oct 2001	Re: Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. Reply #4 - 28. May 2006 at 05:30	Print Post
	I'm told David Elliot's strip scene in The Possession of Joel Delaney is not in the novel. (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)


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cal-Q-L8 Platinum Member Offline Admin Posts: 8,002 Location: Australia Joined: 30. Oct 2001 Gender:	Re: Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. Reply #5 - 28. May 2006 at 12:32	Print Post
	Oh really.. well blow me! An interesting tidbit to be sure. Maybe the director was trying to start a new artistic trend... that didn't catch on, alas! I still haven't seen Janet Jackson's tit.


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nicolas Platinum Member Offline Toi mon amour, toi qui a le cœur lourd mon amour Posts: 1,100 Location: Sur le canapé avec chips/rosé. Joined: 15. Apr 2006 Gender:	Re: Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. Reply #6 - 28. May 2006 at 17:03	Print Post
	That's okay Cal, 1.2 billion viewers were not overly impressed, according to a fictitious Gallup poll. If only 1.2 billion people would demand that "THE POSSESSION OF JOEL DELANEY" be released on dvd.


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cal-Q-L8 Platinum Member Offline Admin Posts: 8,002 Location: Australia Joined: 30. Oct 2001 Gender:	Re: Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. Reply #7 - 29. May 2006 at 00:52	Print Post
	It's not a great movie though... it's been shown on TV here many times, in fact I saw it screened again only a few months ago, uncensored. The only reason I watched it was to see if the censors had decided to cut out the full frontal nudity.... but it was still there. Frankly, I think he actually looked better with his clothes on anyway. He had a nice face but was pudgy elsewhere.


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YoungArthur BA Moderator Offline Hagrid's Helper Posts: 1,914 Joined: 09. May 2003 Gender:	Re: Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. Reply #8 - 29. May 2006 at 02:09	Print Post
	Cal: I still haven't seen Janet Jackson's tit. :laughing: neither have I! I always miss those cultural high points. I can't think of a single boy book that was faithfully put on screen - but I have read so few of them. Among general movies I think 'Rosemary's Baby' is the champ for painstaking scene-for-scene duplication of the novel. But that was Polanski's first stab at making a movie from a novel; he thought he was required to do it that way!


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hosenhaus BA Moderator Offline spheroid Posts: 4,507 Joined: 30. Oct 2001 Gender:	Re: Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. Reply #9 - 29. May 2006 at 07:59	Print Post
	Quote: I can't think of a single boy book that was faithfully put on screen The Other The Grass Harp


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nicolas Platinum Member Offline Toi mon amour, toi qui a le cœur lourd mon amour Posts: 1,100 Location: Sur le canapé avec chips/rosé. Joined: 15. Apr 2006 Gender:	Re: Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. Reply #10 - 29. May 2006 at 12:54	Print Post
	Perhaps the film, "The Grass Harp" is an accurate adaptation. However, if you're referring to the 1972 film, "THE OTHER", the twins (?) swim nude in the novel, but not on film.


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Wildeboy Gold Member Offline Teen Alexander Posts: 448 Joined: 30. Oct 2001	Re: Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. Reply #11 - 30. May 2006 at 00:04	Print Post
	I read The Grass Harp and saw the movie. There's a skinny dipping scene that wasn't quite in the movie, but that was because Eddie Furlong declined to bare all and held up production for several hours on the last day of shooting. They ended up with two boys in their undies (Furlong even had a top on) fishing from a bridge.


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drewski Bronze Member Offline BA Member Posts: 60 Joined: 06. Oct 2005	The Grass Harp Reply #12 - 30. May 2006 at 22:24	Print Post
	The detail about Eddie Furlong refusing to go along with a scene which appears in the book is interesting. Do you know this from talking to someone who was on the crew or was this information shared in a magazine or something? Was the actor unaware of this scene when he agreed to this role? (Just curious.)


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Wildeboy Gold Member Offline Teen Alexander Posts: 448 Joined: 30. Oct 2001	Re: Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. Reply #13 - 30. May 2006 at 23:42	Print Post
	The information about Furlong refusing to strip and holding up production came from an article in Premiere Magazine by Rex Reed who visited the set and was there that day. Mary Steenburgen was in the last scene to be filmed and complained about having to wait while they shot some "nekkid teenagers." Eddie said he read the Capote novel and presumably the script, so he must have known about the scene. Maybe he didn't believe he would actually be required to display his buns. It might have been just as well because filming was in late fall and water in the river they were using was extremely cold. Heaters didn't help matters much and there was the possibility the actors might suffer from hypothermia. Still, they could have been filmed nude on the bridge.


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nicolas Platinum Member Offline Toi mon amour, toi qui a le cœur lourd mon amour Posts: 1,100 Location: Sur le canapé avec chips/rosé. Joined: 15. Apr 2006 Gender:	Re: Faithful Adaptations.... so rare. Reply #14 - 31. May 2006 at 06:39	Print Post
	There have been several situations where a child actor (most likely the parent) had a problem with a nude scene. The most publicized was some teens in the film, "APT PUPIL" just a few years ago. This same Stephen King story was also made as a film with Ricky Schroder when he was about 14, but there probably wasn't a nude scene in that particular production. Things have changed so much since 1960.... when the boy at the opening of "Pollyanna" was given a new bicycle by Walt Disney, for allowing himself to be filmed running and swinging nude on a rope before falling into the river.


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