Would you give me some names of movies based on literary work?!
Question: to kill a mockingbird, a separate peace, shakespeare's romeo and juilet(the thing with leonardo dicaprio) and Othello(with laurence fishburne), The count of monte cristo, little women, wutherin heights, Pollyanna, King solomon's mines, Ivanhoe, Oliver Twist, BGlack beauty, the secret garden. It's true. many many movies started as a book. but these are actually famous literature.
Answers: to kill a mockingbird, a separate peace, shakespeare's romeo and juilet(the thing with leonardo dicaprio) and Othello(with laurence fishburne), The count of monte cristo, little women, wutherin heights, Pollyanna, King solomon's mines, Ivanhoe, Oliver Twist, BGlack beauty, the secret garden. It's true. many many movies started as a book. but these are actually famous literature.
Bridge to Terebithia or Lord of the Rings
harry potter, all the stephen king movies, of mice and men, to kill a mockingbird
A Clockwork Orange
the Count of Monte Cristo
Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Charlotte's Web
Forrest Gump (the book is WAY better)
Hideaway
ummm..... Pretty much most movies are based on books or are remakes of classics with a modern twist.
'The Phantom of the Opera', 'The Masque of Red Death', 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The House of Usher', 'Pride and Prejudice', all five of the Harry Potter movies, all three of the Lord of the Rings movies, 'Cronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe', 'The Golden Compass' (coming out on 12/7/07), 'V for Vendetta' (a graphic novel), and '300' (a graphic novel)
...Just to name a few
Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh), Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare), all of the James Bond (Ian Fleming) and the Hannibal Lecter (Thomas Harris) films, The Commitments as well as the lesser known The Van and The Snapper (Roddy Doyle) - the list could go on forever!
Adaptation of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice
Adaptation of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A midsummer night, Othello
Lee Ang's latest movie: Lust and Caution, not forgetting Brokeback Mountain.
1984
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Alice in Wonderland
Apocalypse Now (based on Heart of Darkness)
Beloved
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Bridge on the River Kwai
Bridges of Madison County
Call of the Wild
Camelot
Catch-22
Clockwork Orange
The Color Purple
Dances With Wolves
Death of a Salesman
Dracula
Fahrenheit 451
Forrest Gump
Frankenstein
Gone with the Wind
The Grapes of Wrath
The Hobbit
Hunt for Red October
Interview with a Vampire
Jaws
Jurassic Park
The King and I
Les Miserables
Little Women
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
The Maltese Falcon
Man in the Iron Mask
Never Cry Wolf
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Out of Africa
The Outsiders
Planet of the Apes
Psycho
The Princess Bride
Schindler's List
Silence of the Lambs
Spartacus
The Three Musketeers
To Kill A Mockingbird
War of the Worlds
...and many others!
The Godfather, The Chosen, The Graduate, Wuthering Heights, Franko Zefferilli's Romeo &Juliet (there's alot of versions, that's just my favorite),Dolores Claiborne, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre, jaws, The Exorcist, etc... Name the movie, it was almost definitely based on a book.
12 Monkeys
Jackie Brown
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Uh, the Da Vinci Code. The book was so much better. Very disappointed in the movie.
The graduate
The notebook
Gone With the Wind
Dr. Zhivago
North by North West
Throne of Blood
Troy
Lords of the Ring 1/2/3
Apocalypse Now
etc. etc. so many...so many
There's some great answers already. I can only add The Lost World: Jurassic Park and The Illusionist. Angel and Demons is coming soon.
I just wanted to state that 'Jaws' and 'Pycho' were ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYS that became books AFTER the movies were made. Also, not ALL of the Stephen King movies were based on his written pages. :)
Of Mice and Men
Gone With the Wind
The Grapes of Wrath