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["If you're going to mess with the story, you shouldn't give the film the same title as the book"]


This post reminded me of a time, a while ago, when I was thinking about movie adaptations that didn't stick to the stories they were adapted from. At the time, it seemed to me[1] that the best unfaithful movie adaptations -- the ones that weren't much like the book, but were great movies in their own right -- have been the ones that *aren't* named after the book that inspired them.

_Blade Runner_ being an obvious example.


Paul

[1] I'm sure, now that I've said it, that someone will come up with a counterexample.