Sentences with phrase «film than novel»

It also seems that Julianne Moore «s President Alma Coin will have a larger role within the film than novel:

Not exact matches

E. L. James's novel Fifty Shades of Grey is now the best selling book in British history, has sold more than 100 million copies globally, and has spawned two sequels, along with an upcoming film adaptation.

Young sold 22 million copies of his novel worldwide — more than Huck Finn, Pride and Prejudice, or The Grapes of Wrath have ever sold; more than Catch - 22 and The Exorcist combined — and the film earned a healthy $ 16.1 million at the box office on its opening weekend.

Based on a novel by P. D. James, the film is considerably more radical than the source material.

Not the American science fiction writer whose novels spawned hit films such as Blade Runner and Total Recall — he died more than 20 years ago — but a state - of - the - art robot named after the author.

Dr. Peden has written or contributed to more than 160 peer - reviewed scientific publications on the kinetics and mechanisms of automobile exhaust catalysis; the development of zeolite catalysts for diesel engine emission control; hydrocarbon reforming over bimetallic catalysts; the structure of hydroprocessing catalysts; the development of novel, supported solid acid catalysts for petroleum refining; the growth and properties of oxide and semiconductor thin films; and model studies of adhesion at metal / metal - oxide interfaces.

In its way, the film is a more fitting conclusion to the Potter saga than the novel that inspired it: even the too - tidy coda, set 19 years later, passes by more smoothly.

What's the Deal: More character study than action movie, this adaptation of Martin Booth's 1990 novel «A Very Private Gentleman» is instead concerned with the inner workings of its amoral antihero, whom we witness do very bad things at film's start that haunt him until the very end.

The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.

But in the context of the film, what's of course a striking and great - looking aesthetic isn't grounded in anything more than a desire to rustle up some novel effects, and that emotional paucity shows.

The novel by Andy Weir was hardly great literature but it created greater tension than Scott's film manages.

This meant chopping out huge chunks of Rowling's tome - sized novel, and rather than detracting from the story, it enabled a more concise and enjoyable film to be made.

A cheeky line from the film «the comic is so much better than the film», puts in a pre-emptive strike against viewers who will feel the film doesn't live up to its graphic novel origins.

But it's unfair to judge on a book on its cover (or title) and after seeing Matthew Vaughn's film adaptation which releases this weekend, I can honestly say that Kick - Ass is much better than I first expected and Vaughn's big - screen version of the graphic novel features sharp writing, brilliant performances, and of course, indulgent action sequences and story - telling.

Heck, using your terminology, I rather see three early to mid 20th century Spanish films than a bloated two films on an inspiring kid's novel.

This young century alone has seen Finding Neverland dramatizing the play's creation, no fewer than nine stage adaptations, NBC's live television special, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Starcatchers series of bestselling prequel novels, the major 2003 filming, and the Syfy miniseries Neverland.

It needs real nerve to come out of a film based on a famous novel and declare unreservedly that you enjoyed the film much more than the book.

German - born Forster has directed a string of films including The Kite Runner, adapted from the best - selling novel, and the comedy Stranger Than Fiction.

Even without having read Dan Brown's bestselling novel, it seems safe to assume based on both this film and Da Vinci that the author is more at ease with plot technicalities than character development.

More than anything else, in fact, the look and episodic composition of the film reminded me of Wojciech Has's The Saragossa Manuscript, a Polish film based on a Polish writer's French - language novel set in Spain (that's no doubt as European as it gets).

Ross offers something in his film adaptation of the novel that Collins, writing with Katniss's voice, never could: the experience of watching the Hunger Games, rather than being a contestant in them.

ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

Sadly, the film, which was adapted by The Artist's Michel Hazanavicius from Wiazemsky's autobiographical novel Un An Après, seems more interested in pastiching Godard's own movies than saying anything interesting about the couple.

So no great surprise here that The Lincoln Lawyer turns out to be superior piece of crime storytelling with some characters clearly designed for recurring roles (in other novels and perhaps other films should this one do well) while others are designated for showy guest appearances as larger - than - life evildoers or tough - guy eccentrics.

Kubrick and Nabokov (who adapted is own novel) raised the age of the grade school «temptress» and left most of the seduction to suggestion, and still made a more provocative and sensitive film than the 1997 remake.

Whilst known for his own vivid and controversial novels LESS THAN ZERO, AMERICAN PSYCHO and THE RULES OF ATTRACTION (each adapted into acclaimed films),...

Beasts will not win, and it may not even be a better film than Lincoln, but it'd at least be a novel choice and not such conventional awards bait.

Never a fan of the novels, I find the film to be more coherent, more emotionally engaging, and a good deal more exciting than anything Tolkien presented in his self - described «histories» of Middle Earth.

Part graphic novel, part Western, part David Lynch, with some film noir thrown in for good measure, it brings together a plethora of visual references to create something that's much greater than the sum of its parts — and its parts, for the record, are indelibly memorable.

But Solaris is less a science - fiction film than it is an existentialist melodrama that, by winnowing itself down to the fierce romanticism at the heart of Lem's novel (and Tarkovsky's trance - like adaptation), locates the core issues of identity and love that plague the dark hours.

Considerably more is made of the film's debt to John Ford, specifically The Searchers (a debt underscored in an alternate ending that apes its famous bookend shots), than to the graphic novel series on which Goodman's script is allegedly based, and we learn that the phrase «brutal functionism» was coined to describe the movie's props, including a blade fashioned from Damascus steel that took 100 hours to sculpt for a few seconds of screentime.

Director Phillip Kaufman's re-imagining of Jack Finney's novel Body Snatchers takes a decidedly darker, more cynical approach to the premise than the original 1956 film adaptation.

Less than a month after its release, plans for a film adaptation of the novel «Burial Rites» by Hannah Kent are already well under way.

The Ice Storm — Ang Lee's adaptation of Rick Moody's novel is one of the few films I can say is actually better than the book.

Based on the 12th novel in James Patterson's long - running series, the studio is clearly hoping that «Alex Cross» can reboot the film franchise that stalled out after 2001's «Along Came a Spider,» but surely there was a better option to play Cross than a man whose biggest claim to fame is dressing up like a fat black woman.

I've read the novel upon which this film is based, and I feel that the film paces better than the book, so fans of the books will likely enjoy these adaptations.

Her vividly sensual prose may make the novel a production designer's dream — and given what we've seen of the film thus far, it seems a likely awards contender in the design categories — but there should be more at play here than simple visual splendor.

He has some big shoes to fill, following in the footsteps of Clint Eastwood (who played the role in the first film version of the novel), but he more than holds his own, wielding his Irish brogue like a saber as he cuts these ladies to ribbons.

Corset - y period dramas of repression and oppression are not normally our go - to bag but aside from the leads, who we'd queue to see read an old - timey phone book, the film's setting is much grimier and more sordid than the drawing room / china teacup variety of period drama (in keeping with the naturalism and class setting of Zola's novel) and gives the advance look we've had an impressively distinctive look and feel.

But according to William Peter Blatty, author of the original's source novel, this costly reshoot of Paul Schrader's Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist should be credited more to Morgan Creek, the film's production company, than to the director, so I have to factor in such judgments as well.

An adaptation of the Nobel Prize - winning author José Saramago's novel «The Double» (and not the thematically similar Dostoyevsky book of the same name which confusingly, features elsewhere on this list) this psychological thriller sounds a little bit more damaged and arthouse than Villeneuve's aforementioned studio film and given uncompromising nature of that picture, we're rather psyched to see how «Enemy» turns out.

Wolfen (Warner Archive, Blu - ray)-- The werewolf movie was revived and reworked with a vengeance in 1981 andWolfen, adapted from the Whitley Strieber novel and directed by Michael Wadleigh (his first feature since the epic concert film Woodstock), was a far more radical take on the genre than either An American Werewolf in Londonor The Howling, though not as popular as either.

Even The Price of Salt — her second novel, adapted last year, by film director Todd Haynes, as Carol — was more than merely a lesbian love story (certainly a bold enough literary statement for 1952, when it was first published), occupying, in its intense focus on desire and its consequences, similar territory to Highsmith's thrillers about killers.

The decision was made to split Suzanne Collins» novel into two separate films, and while writers Peter Craig and Danny Strong have worked diligently to fill the running time with incidents and a considerable amount of deliberation, Mockingjay — Part 1 adds up to little more than a time - wasting episode.

According to someone I spoke with afterward, the film does a more than adequate job of summarizing Suzanne Collins» novel of the same name.

Phyllis Nagy felt more pressure than the usual screenwriter to get her latest script, a film adaptation of the novel «Carol,» right.

Based on the best - selling 2010 novel by late author Vince Flynn, «American Assassin» is far less complicated than the «Bourne» or «Mission: Impossible» films, though there's a nice twist about an hour in that definitely does the trick.

The film does an admirable job of condensing the graphic novel series into a little less than two hours, but — in the process — Scott's character is a smidge de-jerkified and Ramona's given way less to do.

While the film is arguably no better or worse than its literary source, it does shatter the fantasies of sexual desire and sexual pleasure constructed within the novel.

While it was the latest YA novel adaptation at a time when they seemed to be arriving on a regularly scheduled basis, having a film so stripped down and primal made it more worthwhile as an action - horror hybrid than a world - building first chapter of a more extensive series.