Seth, drain the well. There's a neighbor missing

[sovay]

It is a good thing Ian McKellen followed up his turn in Cold Comfort Farm (1995) with roles as monumentally pop-cultural as Gandalf or Magneto, because otherwise I suspect people would still be accosting him in the street and shouting, "THERE'LL BE NO BUTTER IN HELL!"

. . . Actually, I really hope they still do.

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[sovay]

It's one of those rarer movies that stands up to the book and trades blow for blow. They both survive with honors at the end.

I haven't read the book in years! I don't even own a copy. Fortunately, I suspect I know people I can hit up for one.

What other films do you like as well as their books?

[csecooney.livejournal.com]

Mmn. The 1995 Persuasion, but not the 2007. The 1999 Wives and Daughters.

Atonement and Perfume came close, mostly because they succeeded in conveying a particularly strong artificial synæsthesia so beautifully. Atonement recreated migraine conditions through its soundtrack, the smallest sounds -- like the typewriter and the squeak of shoes -- being heightened. And Perfume doing with color what the author did with scent, which was, I thought, extremely important.

Forrest Gump the film was better than the book. Likewise the fifth Harry Potter movie.

Dang. I wanted to give you more, but it's 7:30 in the morning and my brain's not working. I'll think about it. I don't actually watch a lot of movies, although more now that I don't have a job and my mom's living with me. (I stopped watching movies alone a few years ago mostly. It had lost a lot of its flavor. I still do it occasionally but mostly only with guilty pleasure movies.)

Do you have movies you prefer to their bookish counterparts?