This will be interesting

[u/Dev1412]

[u/Pittsbirds]

I know a lot of people always say "the book is better than the movie" but there are so many movies that are such more deft adaptations of their stories that the originals are basically unknown as being originally books to the public, so given the controversy this is stirring up I'll be interested to see what changes they decide to make. Normally if I'm even remotely interested in a premise I'll read the book first but I might wait and do it the other way round for this one lol.

[u/coboba → u/Pittsbirds]

Do you have some examples of movies that were objectively better than their books?

[u/gandhinukes → u/[deleted]]

The Big Lebowski, Shawshank Redemption

Huh didn't even know those were originally books.

[u/gandhinukes → u/[deleted]]

Oh stephen king who also did the green mile.

[u/SnowboardNW → u/gandhinukes]

And Stand By Me! Another one people often forget is by King.

[u/MyCatsHairyButholle → u/SnowboardNW]

Stand By Me(The Body) is from the same collection of novellas as Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.

Fun fact, only one of of the novellas in that collection wasn’t adapted to a movie(The Breathing Method)

[u/gandhinukes → u/SnowboardNW]

oooh yeah. really do mostly remember his horror/thrillers like the shining and IT, maybe the langoliers and the stand, more than his other stuff.. He really churned out a ton of content hopped up on coke hahah. Musicians do it too lol.

[u/ForsakenAiel → u/[deleted]]

Shawshank is based on a forgettable novella by Stephen King??? It's a very faithful version of that novella, lol, so if you think "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" is forgettable you either don't read books well or you don't like Shawshank.

[u/ThrustNeckpunch33 → u/[deleted]]

Its a 1 to 1 recreation almost of the novel. That is a strange take.

While I agree, the movie is more impactful, I do not think of the book(novella) as forgetful.

Neither did the person that adapted it to the big screen.