Best book-to-movie translation?
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I thought book 'American Psycho' was a pile of pretentious, laborious, mysogonistic tosh, so I was surprised and delighted when the film turned out to be a sophisticated satirical comedy with a feminist bent - which was hilarious to boot!
992857
I usually read the book, then watch the movie. But, if I see a good movie and haven't read the book, I usually read the book because the book is almost always better.
540879
Where the Heart is. \n\nAwesome movie, awesome book.
57015
How about taking him to a movie. Chronicals of Narnia and Hoodwinked are out and they are both rated PG.
451824
The Beach, it was made into a movie several years ago with Leonardo Dicaprio, but the book is so much better.  I wish I could remember the author for you.  \n\nAlso, I recommend The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime; A Seperate Peace; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and Catch-22.  \n\nThese are some of my personal favorites, I hope you like them too!
625351
Try Babelfish. But, like all machine translators, it's a machine.
44139
If you are very motivated :\n\nFind your favorite movie (in english, of course) - DVD, VHS, download, whatever..\n\nLearn it by heart - Repeat the script after the actors, doing play-rewind.\n\nI tell you the truth - the day you'll be able to say every single word of the movie, you'll be pretty good in english !
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i do think the movies should be more close to the books... but i also know it would be too difficult to do it... but i guess there's when the creative side of the filmmakers get into action...they should try to find the way to do it as close as the book as possible... as a conclusion i just wanna say that i was a bit dissapointed of the last movie... they took out so many things
608141
the movie based on the book is called A Cry in the Wind. below is a link where you buy it. it looks like it going to expensive through Amazon, but at least now you know the name of the movie. Good Luck!
886352
code? as in codex to play the movie?\nwe need a bit more info what are you trying to do with your movie?
906181
How about reading Le Morte D'Artur by Sir Thomas Mallory, it's what the movie was loosely based on and has lots of really cool illustrations.
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babelfish.altavista.com\nBut be warned, it's a literal translation, so it will not be perfectly accurate.
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Movie Based on book:- It seems an easy thing to do, but most of us have different impressions on any given book. The movie version is what the Director perceives as the definition of the book. A book can hold ten times more information. So making the movie, most of the book is lost.\nThe best way, in my opinion, to make the movie is to allow the book Author to write the screenplay.\n\nSequels:- When they first started to appear (1980's) they where mainly a money making devise to line the pockets of the movie companies, with no thought to quality. Now, they are as much big business but the quality is highly improved.\n\nRemakes:- Cashing in on old classics, just like 80's sequels.
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I would vote for A Midsummer Night's Dream.  It's a great dose of comic silliness with just enough philosophical inquiry into the relationship between dream and reality to give you food for thought.  The last scene alone is worth the price of admission (or rental, or the cost of a good book).
616594
OH MY GOD! that movie was the best.\nhowever, you cant go to that movie unless you have read the book. otherwise you will be just wayyy too confused.\nread the book while you wait for it to come out on video. trust me. it will be worth it.
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It all depends on which film and novel.\n\nThere have been some books that were made into movies that were completely different from the book that made me cringe when I first watched them. If they were all like that, I would be totally against it.\nThere are some that clarify a book, especially if it's an old one. I enjoy Pride and Prejudice and The Count of Monte Cristo better on the screen than reading them because the 19th century writing is very wordy. True, they're not exactly the same, but it gives the general idea at least.\nThen there are the others that are perfect as books and as movies, such as the Lord of the Rings. Those books needed to be brought to the big screen and, though they weren't exactly the same, it was perfect nonetheless.\nAs for everything, it all just depends.
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"The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear" by Walter Moers. A book so good it's the only one I ever immediately started re-reading as soon as I got to the end.\nIf you want something to just dip into now and again then "English as She Is Spoke: Being a Comprehensive Phrasebook of the English Language, Written by Men to Whom English Was Entirely Unknown" is absolutely hysterical - it's a phrasebook for Portuguese travellers to England, but the translations are more like something from that Monty Python "Hungarian Phrasebook" sketch.