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| Apocalypse Now |
One of the worst things about a great book being made into a bad movie (and we all know that happens way too often) is that people who see the movie will probably never read the book, remembering the title only as an inferior and unsatisfactory one. This sad truth was brought home to me a few years ago, when I suggested a truly superb book to one of my students. His response was, "Oh, I saw the movie. It was horrible!" I could see that nothing would convince him that the book was worth reading. There have been several movies made, however, that most of us can agree were totally worthy of the books on which they were based. One of my favorites, aside from
To Kill a Mockingbird (
http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2014/07/to-thrill-mockingbird.html,
http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2014/04/just-because-to-kill-mockingbird.html), is
Apocalypse Now (
http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-smell-of-wetsuit-in-morning.html). Both are, of course, included in this list of 15 culled from a list of 50 (story, video clips):
http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/15-great-films-adapted-from-equally-great-novels.html
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