Can you name the Top 25 Book to Film Adaptations? by drh_lector

Director	Film	Author
David Lean		Charles Dickens
William Wyler		Emily Bronte
Robert Mulligan		Harper Lee
David Lean		Boris Pasternak
Luchino Visconti		Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Jonathan Demme		Thomas Harris
Stephen Frears		Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Howard Hawks		Raymond Chandler
Alfred Hitchcock		John Buchan
Ronald Neame		Muriel Spark
John Huston		Herman Melville
John & Roy Boulting		Graham Greene
Tod Browning		Bram Stoker

Director	Film	Author
Fred Zinnemann		Frederick Forsyth
Lewis Milestone		Erich Maria Remarque
Steven Spielberg		J.G Ballard
Danny Boyle		Irvine Welsh
Francis Ford Coppola		Joseph Conrad
Joel & Ethan Coen		Cormac McCarthy
James Ivory		Kazuo Ishiguro
Stanley Kubrick		Stephen King
Chris Columbus/ Alfonso Cuaron/ Mike Newell/ David Yates		J.K. Rowling
William Wyler		Henry James
Steven Spielberg		Thomas Keneally
Peter Jackson		J.R.R. Tolkien

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Top 25 Book to Film Adaptations Quiz

by drh_lector

Created Oct 20, 2009 in Movies
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	Reggieveljohnson:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 05:42 GMT	5 points
	the godfather?

	Chumley:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 06:31 GMT	2 points
	You need to say what the Qualifiers for the list are. And change the heading of the third column.

	facef:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 12:12 GMT	3 points
	A Clockwork Orange?

	Chriscwest45:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 13:25 GMT	2 points
	No Jurassic Park or Grapes of Wrath?

	turgidstan:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 13:26 GMT	1 point
	This is a very Telegraph-y list, what with the predominance of British films/sources or featuring the Trainspotting adaptation because you don't have to know Scots dialect. It would be a lot more impressive to come up with a list of films that actually improved on the source material (in which case The Godfather would have to feature).

	JohnJF:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 13:52 GMT	2 points
	I want to meet whatever genius decided that neither The Godfather nor Gone With The Wind warranted inclusion.

	rockgolf:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 13:59 GMT	0 points
	The 39 Steps on this list is a joke. The Hitchcock film kept the title, the name of the main character and virtually nothing else. But that's no reflection on the quiz, which is quite good.

	trivial:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 14:16 GMT	2 points
	Not many people are getting The Day of the Jackal. Great book. Read it! I'm not sure if I've seen the movie or not.

	johnlk:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 14:24 GMT	2 points
	Is Moby-Dick really even John Huston's best adaptation? It's the best novel he adapted, but surely The Maltese Falcon or The Treasure of the Sierra Madre are better films?

	Desiderata:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 14:40 GMT	1 point
	Apocalyse Now is loosely based on Heart of Darkness. The implication of the quiz is that the source and adaptation have the same name.

	newenglander:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 18:44 GMT	1 point
	one flew over the cuckoos nest?

	bvenez:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 18:46 GMT	1 point
	since when is charles dickens considered a year? i always thought he was an author

	IrichOspN:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 20:16 GMT	0 points
	I expected the Wizard of Oz to be on the list. Maybe I'm dumb though.

	Osprey39:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 21:27 GMT	1 point
	The Day of the Jackal was a fantastic movie. Can't believe I missed it.

	Rackie:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 23:31 GMT	1 point
	I think I'd prefer if a main actor rather than director were used; tough quiz though!

	Dorkle:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 02:26 GMT	2 points
	You really should indicate where this list comes from. Is this actually a quiz on your favorite books made into movies?

	JimKatz:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 03:06 GMT	3 points
	'Heart of Darkness' should work for 'Apocalypse Now'.

	drh_lector:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 04:25 GMT	1 point
	There is a link to the source for quiz.

	FearTheManatee:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 19:05 GMT	1 point
	No "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"? It only won five Oscars.

	FearTheManatee:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 19:21 GMT	1 point
	Also "Girl, Interrupted", the only reason Angelina Jolie has a career.

	rgehara:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 20:06 GMT	1 point
	as soon as I noticed no Godfather this quiz belonged in the just for fun category

	alsanali:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 18:39 GMT	1 point
	This list makes no sense to me. Maybe they wanted to keep it one film per director but why would you pick The 39 Steps over Vertigo, Psycho or Rear Window? And if they're going purely on the quality of the movie, then apparently the Harry Potter series is better than The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Godfather and countless others?

	istalkblink182:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 18:57 GMT	1 point
	you can probably just throw "The Hobbit" on there now cuz theres no doubt in my mind its gonna be just as great as the LOTR trilogy