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Marty's right, The Graduate was a novel before the
movie.
Love Story was certainly a novel before the movie. Recall the
rain of negative criticism on Eric Segal - his book was lachrymose and
obtuse - but it brought us Ali - also in Goodbye, Columbus, 1969. And in the
early 70s those movie unleashed Richard Benjamin in a whole series of excellent,
angst-ridden movies like The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, The Steagle,
Portnoy's Complaint, Diary of a Mad Housewife; plus Charles Grodin in
Heartbreak Kid, and Richard Dreyfuss in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,
many of which were adapted from novels.
True Grit was a novel by Charles Portis that was barely read -
I read a library edition - and would never have been filmed but for the
Duke, whose performance was staggeringly adept and transcended the source
material. Those who huffed that his Oscar was a (dubious) lifetime
achievement award just never appreciated that performance or his work anyway.
The startled reaction, like being slapped, when called a "one-eyed fat man"
by Lucky Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall) and his challenge "well fill your hands, you
sonofa bitch" - pure theatricality - who'd have thought. Even better was using
Ned's words in his goodbye to Mattie. Worth the price of admission then and
still fun to see today.
Some good posters too: Columbus and Marriage (the alternate
with Richard and the ineffably beautiful Joanna Shimkus drapped in a towel
running away) certainly. True Grit regular not so much with the floating heads
which creep me out, but there's another image on the quad that's
iconic.
Craig
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 11:26
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Subject: Re: [MOPO] Films Better Than the
Books?
That would make Angelica Huston Jesus' sister.
K.
On May 6, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Joseph Bonelli wrote:
<"Do any of you think that the movie THE BIBLE was better than the
book?">
Are you kidding, Kirby?? With John Huston as the Deity of COURSE
the movie was better!!
Do
any of you think that the movie THE BIBLE was better than the
book?
K.
On May 6, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Steve
wrote:
> Am I the only one who feels the movie, "The Wizard of
Oz" is better
> than the book? Or have none of you read
it?
>
> Were "The Graduate" and "Love Story" films before
books or the
> other way around? Both followed the stories so
closely that it was
> almost like reading the movie scripts instead
of the novels.
>
>
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