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Post by Fire Bear on Nov 25, 2009 10:00:14 GMT
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Post by Someguy on Nov 25, 2009 19:50:16 GMT
Most films have roots in literature. 28 Days Later, for instance, borrowed it's initial concept of waking up in a hospital to the silence of a 'deserted' London from the book 'Day of the Triffids', which had a similar (but more powerful) opening.
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Post by Fire Bear on Nov 25, 2009 22:48:41 GMT
My dad says it was based on the film.
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Post by McBain on Nov 26, 2009 22:54:25 GMT
Many films have book adaptations and they are AWFUL!
Seriously, they need to fill out the book with descriptions and unnecessary characterization. The novelization of Lethal Weapon sees Riggs find some perverse sexual excitement from the phallic shape of a bullet. Even we don't stoop to lunacy like that in our writing. Not yet anyway.
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Post by Spidey on Nov 26, 2009 23:02:24 GMT
Not counting Star Wars, I think the last novelisation of a film I read was of one of the Flintstones movies. I think I liked it. Granted, I was about eight.
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Post by Starlong on Nov 26, 2009 23:18:48 GMT
Phallic shaped bullets eh? Well it's not how I would do it. Give me a gun that shoots shuriken and I could kill happy. The story ideas are rushing through today!
The Flintstones probably went a media too far when they ventured into the Live Action domain, let alone the written word. Some cartoons need to stay just that, for the sake of sanity!
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Post by McBain on Nov 26, 2009 23:21:56 GMT
I don't know, the 11 year old me enjoyed the Rugrats Movie novel. Spike's heroic defence of the babies in the face of a vicious wolf took on an emotional level the movie failed to convey.
Plus it didn't have the god awful rendition of "One Way Or Another".
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Post by Someguy on Nov 27, 2009 18:49:30 GMT
And there you have it. Books win. I'm glad that literature in it's entirety, from Chaucer to Tennyson, Heller to Louis-Stevenson has been defended by it's champion: The Rugrat's Movie Novel.
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Post by Starlong on Nov 27, 2009 21:40:41 GMT
A champion needed to stand, and that's something the rugrats still struggle with... Oh the IRONY!
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Post by Spidey on Nov 27, 2009 21:44:50 GMT
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Post by Fire Bear on Nov 28, 2009 20:02:48 GMT
Yeah!
All Grown Up! ;D I loved that!
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Post by Someguy on Nov 29, 2009 13:53:20 GMT
Yeah!
All grown-up and legal! I loved that! (and them)
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Post by Fire Bear on Nov 29, 2009 15:51:36 GMT
I don't think they were meant to be that old, Stewart...
I would say about 12/13. Good luck with explaining that one to the police.
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Post by Starlong on Nov 29, 2009 17:17:50 GMT
Well he is God, he has beneath his authority and reign of glory a religion of preachers who have a quota of 12/13 y/o boys to "convert". Don't know how he'd explain the girls though. Oh my Stewart, did I just invoke rule 34???
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Post by Someguy on Nov 29, 2009 23:28:53 GMT
YOU FOOL! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? Oh, God, I just felt it spring into existence.
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