Poll: That Wasn't the Name of the Book...
...or story, play, etc. When literary works are adapted for the screen, the names are sometimes changed, often drastically. Which of the following changes do you find the most striking? Discuss the list here
Vote:
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Based on: "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss -
About Last Night (1986)
Based on: "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" by David Mamet -
American Gangster (2007)
Based on: "The Return of Superfly" by Mark Jacobson -
Blade Runner (1982)
Based on: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Phillip K. Dick -
Blow-Up (1966)
Based on: "Las babas del diablo" (The Devil's Drool) by Julio Cortázar -
Boom! (1968)
Based on: "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" by Tennessee Williams -
Charly (1968)
Based on: "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes -
Die Hard (1988)
Based on: "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp -
Goodfellas (1990)
Based on: "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi -
Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Based on "Low Men In Yellow Coats" by Stephen King -
Jacknife (1989)
Based on: "Strange Snow" by Stephen Metcalfe -
John Carter (2012)
Based on: "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs -
Lawless (2012)
Based on: "The Wettest County in the World" by Matt Bondurant -
Mean Girls (2004)
Based on: "Queen Bees and Wannabes" by Rosalind Wiseman -
Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
Based on: "Waltz into Darkness" by Cornell Woolrich -
Monte Carlo (2011)
Based on: "Headhunters" by Jules Bass -
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Based on: "Opera Hat" by Clarence Budington Kelland -
The Music Never Stopped (2011)
Based on: "The Last Hippie" by Dr. Oliver Sacks -
October Sky (1999)
Based on: "Rocket Boys," which is an anagram of "October Sky," by Homer Hickam -
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Based on: "The Hoods" by Harry Grey -
Only When I Laugh (1981)
Based on: "The Gingerbread Lady" by Neil Simon -
Out of the Past (1947)
Based on: "Build My Gallows High" by Daniel Mainwaring -
The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)
Based on: "The Age of Grief" by Jane Smiley -
Shattered (1991)
Based on: "The Plastic Nightmare" by Richard Neely -
A Sinful Life (1989)
Based on: "Just Like the Pom Pom Girls," presented by the Groundlings comedy troupe -
Smoke Signals (1998)
Based on: "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" by Sherman Alexie -
Stalker (1979)
Based on: "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky -
Stand by Me (1986)
Based on: "The Body" by Stephen King -
Steel Toes (2007)
Based on: "Cherry Docs" by David Gow -
Straw Dogs (1971)
Based on: "The Siege of Trencher's Farm" by Gordon M. Williams -
Summer Camp Nightmare (1986)
Based on: "The Butterfly Revolution" by William Butler -
The 13th Warrior (1999)
Based on: "Eaters of the Dead" by Michael Crichton -
Total Recall (1990)
Based on: "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Phillip K. Dick -
Twister (1989)
Based on: "OH!" by Mary Robison -
Village of the Damned (1960)
Based on: "The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham