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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
Poll by: HardSteelMill
Created Oct 15 2015
Vote:
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
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