Can a film transcend the novel it was based upon? During a (by no means definitive) discussion of most-loved and patently despised novel to film adaptations, the panel braves some harsh words, endures scathing criticism and experiences several moments of probable enlightenment. Along the quest to discover if the book is always better than the movie: James Franco is disparaged, Stanley Kubrick receives praise, disagreements arise over the adaptation of East of Eden and details regarding Mario Puzo’s use of Sonny Corleone’s penis as a literary device in The Godfather sparks controversy.
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Show Notes & Links
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Lolita (1962 film) – Stanley Kubrick
- The Shining by Stephen King
- The Shining (1980 film) – Stanley Kubrick
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005 film) – Garth Jennings
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- As I Lay Dying (2013 film) – James Franco
- Blowout (1981 film) – Brian de Palma
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- East of Eden (1955 film) – Elia Kazan
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace (1956 film) – King Vidor
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Anna Karenina (2012 film) – Joe Wright
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- Les Misérables (2012 film) – Tom Hooper
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Gone with the Wind (1939 film) – Victor Fleming
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- The Godfather (1972 film) – Francis Ford Coppola
- The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
- The Exorcist (1973 film) – William Friedkin
- Jaws by Peter Benchley
- Jaws (1975 film) – Steven Spielberg
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- No Country for Old Men (2007 film) – Coen Brothers
- To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
- To Have and Have Not (1944 film) – Howard Hawks
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 film) – Stanley Kubrick
- Psycho (1960 film) – Alfred Hitchcock
- Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964 film) – Stanley Kubrick
- Barry Lyndon (1975 film) – Stanley Kubrick
