lucifer_sam

This may very well be, but the main theme of the film came nowhere near that of the book (which is easy to detect, because Sinclair almost exclusively writes politicized narratives). As far as I'm concerned they are completely disparate works.

Add to that list: The Count of Monte Cristo (both 1934 & 2002 adaptations), Apocalypse Now!, A Clockwork Orange & Trainspotting. Which is pretty immense, because those last two novels are pretty immense themselves.

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djchameleon

I feel like more people should treat films based off of novels as two different works.

Two different mediums are being used and they each have their own strengths.

The whole "the book was better" attitude that people love to gravitate towards shouldn't be even used.

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