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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
very true.
but movies regularly use literature as their source material.
it is quite the oppoosite with movies being used as source material for literature. (besides the obvious ghost-written novel adaptatios of hit movies)
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In general the best movies are not adapted from books. There are a few exceptions.
The Graduate, the Shining, and Psycho are all great movies. In those cases the directors were all very talented and simply used the book for the story and used their amazing vision to make quite wonderful movies.
I haven't read the book versions of any of those, but I get the impression that none of them were incredibly wonderful novels.