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What was the reason for the shift from Charlie to Willy Wonka in the film title?
NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights organization in the United States to advance justice for African Americans) had the objection on the portrayal of the characters in the book. They didn't approve the book, therefore, they didn'...
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I think the answer to this is probably many
After a short think, the first example I was able to find was:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick was adapted as
Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, which in turn was adapted as
Blade Runner: A Story of the Future by Les Martin
Philip K. Dick approved of the movie despite the ...
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The movies as a whole primarily tell the story of the destruction of the ring. So when the ring is destroyed, that is the climax of the movie, and movies almost always end shortly after the climax.
I read the books for the first time shortly after the first movie came out, and when the ring was destroyed only halfway though book 6 (the second half of Return ...
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They filmed some scenes with Peeves in the first film, but he was cut before the film was released. The character wasn’t revived for the later films.
I found a few interviews that touch on the topic of Peeves.
First, there was an interview with BBC Norfolk with Chris Rankin, who played Percy Weasley, where he explains that they actually shot scenes with ...
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Planet Of The Apes (1968) was based on French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel La Planète des Singes. After becoming a movie and additional sequels, it was further developed into cartoons, TV series and comic books.
Additionally, all of the original sequels spawned novelizations by established science fiction writers of the day, each of which went ...
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But what was the reason for the shift from Charlie to Willy Wonka in the film title?
From the Dutch wikipedia about that movie:
De titel van het verhaal werd echter aangepast naar Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory om beter aan te sluiten bij het snoepgoed dat in de film gepromoot zou worden, en omdat in de Verenigde Staten (die toen betrokken waren ...
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No-one knew whether viewers would accept a "serious drama" about power politics with a fantasy setting. This article shows how much of the early criticism and rejection of the show (particularly from mainstream critics) was essentially a knee-jerk reaction to the fantasy genre, and how the producers did famously try to pitch the show as "...
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It seems the women in James Bond's love life often have provocative names:
Honey Rider, Dr. No (1961): 1960s sexual position name for reverse cowgirl
Domino Vitali/Petachi, Thunderball (1965) and Never Say Never Again (1983): Dominatrix?
Kissy Suzuki, You Only Live Twice (1967): "kissing machine"?
Tiffany Case, Diamonds Are Forever (1971): beautiful ...
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I can immediately see that our opinions on this differ somewhat, so I'm not neccesarily expecting the thumbs up, but I'll try to outline some of the main points about adaptation: in this case, from the Book to the TV Show.
Firstly, you should know, the process of adapting original work is such a common part of TV/Movie making it is its own profession. It ...
answered Jun 18 '14 at 12:58
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There are definitely some name changes that take place.
Greg Lippmann became Jared Vennett (played by Ryan Gosling).
Steve Eisman became Mark Baum (played by Steve Carrell).
Ben Hockett became Ben Rickert (played by Brad Pitt).
Michael Burry, played by Christian Bale does not have his name changed.
Otherwise, the various linked articles show a lot of ...
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The 'Fidelity Issue' has been a long term fixture on many (if not most) film/production and screenwriting qualifications.
During my Degree we had an entire module named 'Adaptation', and for three weeks we discussed/researched this very question without verifiable success.
It's unlikely you'll find a satisfactory answer to something so broad on here, but ...
answered Nov 22 '13 at 0:22
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As explained to Movie Pilot by Warwick Davis himself,
When it came to the third film, of course the looks of the whole films had changed.
Alfonso really wanted to put his mark on the films. And then a lot of things altered: anything from character looks, to the actual layout of Hogwarts itself.
And another thing was happening at the same time. There wasn't ...
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Probably the most important element of Jack Ryan's personality is that he's just an analyst in the CIA, yet he repeatedly gets drawn into dangerous situations where he's forced to act as an operative. He succeeds, and even excels, despite his lack of operational training.
Arguably the second most important element of Jack Ryan is his back injury. While he ...
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If you consider a graphic novel to be a novel, then the graphic novel V for Vendetta (written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd) was adapted as a film (directed by James McTeigue and written by the Wachowskis), which was in turn novelized by Steve Moore (no relation to Alan Moore).
The film had a number of differences from the graphic novel, and ...
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I feel like this question would benefit from a spoiler-free overview, by character. The final section details which book characters don't appear in the TV show and visa versa, so stop reading before that heading if you don't want to know. Where the TV show contains possible spoilers for unwritten books, I've put the episode numbers where these occur in ...
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The meaning of the name "Pussy Galore" is essentially "abundant sex" (with "Pussy" meaning sex and "Galore" meaning abundant).
The name "Pussy Galore" is intended to make viewers laugh. The humor is largely driven by how the name is such an obvious, crude reference to sex.
Remember the movie came out in 1964, when audiences were much less de-sensitized ...
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I'd say that this order was prescribed by The Da Vinci Code (the book)'s high success. While Dan Brown might have been regarded as a best-selling author even before The Da Vinci Code, this book was a major success world-wide and gathered an attention much higher than Angels & Demons or any of his previous books did, I think. So it was just a matter of ...
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There can be many reasons a character isn't introduced. While I can't seem to find any interviews that directly explain why this character was left out, that could be because they don't want to spoil anything for the remaining seasons.
While I haven't read the books, I watch the show with a few people who have, so I'm aware of several moments in season 4 ...
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This is not mentioned in the books. No one had ever seen it before.
This can mean two things:
This will be in one of the next books; hence the TV Show is starting to spoil the book series.
This won't happen in the books, and it was just on the show.
Either way, we cannot know what that scene meant/was based on/referenced/whatever until the next season and/...
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He does indeed have skills, all of which are listed in detail on his Wiki page. These skills include:
Ability to use pistols, shown in a few stories e.g. Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sign of Four.
Ability to use cane/walking stick as weapon
"Apparent" ability to use a sword (according to Watson in A Study of Scarlet he is an expert). I say apparent as ...
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The exact diologue is to my knowledge nowhere to be found in any of the movies. But I think in a quite changed form it is still there in the book's adaptation. In the scene in Jurassic Park where they all are dining after their first welcome to the facility and after visiting the labs, Dr. Ian Malcolm says something pretty much to the same effect:
Malcolm: ...
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TL;DR:
Kubrick wanted fans who really desired its meaning to either interpret their own meaning from the film, or read Burgess' book to derive the meaning the author intended.
Long Answer:
In an article with the New Yorker, Anthony Burgess, the author of A Clockwork Orange described how the name came to him:
I first heard the expression “as queer as a ...
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The main political theme of the V for Vendetta comic was anarchy vs. fascism. But the movie didn't turn out that way.
Alan Moore himself said:
[The movie] has been "turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country.... It's a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone ...
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There is also a Wikipedia entry on the character, which explains the meaning and origin:
As with many of Ian Fleming's creations, the name is a double
entendre—in this case with respect to pussy, which is both another
word for a housecat and a slang term for vulva and vagina, while
galore means an abundant or plentiful supply of something.
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From io9.com/
Not to worry though, in the event that they do catch up, the show's
creators are prepared. Benioff reveals, "Last year we went out to
Santa Fe for a week to sit down with him [Martin] and just talk
through where things are going, because we don't know if we are going
to catch up and where exactly that would be. If you know the ending,...
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Going back into the production history, as far back as 2006, MGM and Jackson wanted to make it a three part franchise in some way. According to Wikipedia:
The project had been envisaged as two parts since 2006, but the
proposed contents of the parts changed during development. MGM
expressed interest in a second film in 2006, set between The Hobbit
...
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Yennefer's backstory is aluded to in The Tower of Swallows:
Janka! Dear Janka!
Take this hunchbacked monstrosity from me! I don’t want to look at it!
She’s your daughter as much as she is mine.
Indeed? The children I have sired are normal.
How dare you… How dare you suggest…
It was in your elven family that there were witches....
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This was explained in the novel and was planned to be explained in the film, but the scene was cut for time. Here's a summary from /Film Trivia: Why Was the Triceratops Sick in ‘Jurassic Park’?
In the film we learn that the Triceratops is getting sick every six weeks or so. Dr. Ellie Sattler first believes the culprit may be the West Indian Lilac berries ...
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In the original books, no, a sister is never mentioned. However, in a very roundabout way, the seeds of her origin are contained within the books.
The only sibling mentioned in Doyle's books is Holmes's brother Mycroft, who appears in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", "The Final Problem", and "The Adventure of the Bruce-...
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