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Authors who hated the cine adaptation of their book

sivertime — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 15:23:54 +0000

“The cinema killed me”.
The transition from paper to the big screen is necessarily a complex exercise that leads to mixed reactions among readers, but also among authors. For an esteemed saga like Harry Potter, whose cast has almost been different , a bunch of other films, often adored by critics, have been massacred by the brains behind the original work. Do not touch my book!
Stephen King – “Shining”
The master of the horror novel sees red as soon as he is told about Stanley Kubrick’s film, which would have totally distorted his work as he told Rolling Stone magazine: “The book is hot, the film is cold; Book ends in flame, the film ends in the ice ” . Among the main grievances is the lack of nuance in the character of Jack Torrance : “In my book, there is a narrative sequence where Jack Torrance tries to be good, and it is gradually that he arrives at a Stage of madness (…) When I saw the film, Jack appeared to me insane from the first scene ” . But the worst character remains according to him, that of Wendy, who would only shout from beginning to end (“a screaming mop”
Bret Easton Ellis – “American Psycho”
The author has always maintained that his novel was impossible to transpose on screen because he is interested in consciousness and “we can not really show the complexity of this sensitivity . ” The film would make the character of Patrick Bateman for a monster, when the novel “is much more ambiguous” . It was not more tender with the adaptation of “The Informers” in 2008, film on which he nevertheless worked the script but which made a real oven to the cinema. “This film does not work for a lot of reason, but I do not think any of these reasons come from me . ” The art of questioning …
Uderzo – “Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra”
Co-author of the comic strip with Goscinny (died in 1977), Uderzo is the one who still preserves the Gallic spirit of Asterix and Obelix. And it has long been said that the draftsman / scriptwriter had little taste of the 2nd opus released in the cinema, “Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra” . He reproached Alain Chabat for having distanced himself from the original work, with a much too much Canal humor, and secondary characters that erased Asterix and Obelix. Albert Uderzo, who was certainly cornered by the 15 million spectators who went to theaters, and the cult status of the film, now prefers to temper, assuring him that he is not angry with Alain Chabat: “I was just A bit annoyed because it is not what I ‘
Roald Dahl – “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”
It’s a constant: Roald Dahl hates all the adaptations of his books. With a fierce hatred for the most famous of them, the “Charlie and the Chocolaterie” of 1971 . Pell-mell, he said the film is “lame” , director Mel Stuart “has no talent” , and as for Gene Wilder – the actor who plays Willy Wonka – “it was pretentious and not dynamic enough for the role ” .
Ken Kesey – “Flying over a Cuckoo’s Nest”
Despite the 1976 Oscars (Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Script), Ken Kesey never wore the adaptation of Milos Forman in his heart. While basically, he was motivated by the project and had joined the trick, before slamming the door … two weeks later. He has long recounted that he had never seen the film, although his wife confessed after his death, that he was pleased that the feature was born.
Richard Matheson – “I’m a Legend”
For Richard Matheson, the cinema has lacked respect twice to his work. In 1964 first, where “The Last Man on Earth” did not really pack it: “I am disappointed by this film even if they have more or less followed my story . ” Although he appreciated it a lot, the main actor Vincent Price was “a casting error” . Same in 2007 with the Will Smith version which will make him say: “I do not understand why Hollywood is so fascinated by my book while nobody there ever takes the trouble to film it as I wrote . ”
Winstom Groom – “Forrest Gump”
Winstom Groom was downright bad. He is one of the few to spit on Robert Zemeckis’ film, which would have distorted his work, obscuring important moments of the book, as well as raw language and sex scenes. The choice of Tom Hanks appeared to him as fanciful since in his book, Forrest Gump measures 2m and weighs 110 kgs (he wanted the actor John Goodman instead). Although Winston Groom has not been revered for financial reasons, despite having negotiated a 3% profit on the Paramount, the studio did not spin it, as the film would have Lost money. He will sue them and win. Very well, he wrote in 1995, in the following of his novel: “Never leave someone”

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They refused to resume their role for a sequel (and fortunately)

sivertime — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:53:46 +0000

They could have chosen the ease by slipping their pips into slippers they knew well. But nan, these guys have kindly declined the invitation …
Usually when you want to put the cover with an ex, you always have this friend who tries to dissuade you in mode “Nan, it is never a good idea” . At the cinema, the biz is a little different: today you often hit the jackpot by taking over the same role several times via franchises . Even if some actors / actresses, for various reasons, have already been able to say no to a continuation of a film that had worked well. And often, it was pretty well seen …
Tom Hanks in “Forrest Gump 2”
According to Eli Roth, the screenwriter of “Forrest Gump” , a sequel of the film is already written since a lease. But Tom Hanks, the main actor, has always been moderately hot . In Entertainment Weekly, he said: “Stupidity makes me sick. This suite would ruin everything we did on the first film . ”
Jim Carrey in “The Mask 2”
Despite a $ 10 million proposal in the 1990s, Jim Carrey has always refused to take back the role that revealed him in the movies . The Canadian actor preferring to look to the future. A position that evolves with age, as evidenced by his participation in “Dumb and Dumber 2” . “I’m in a period when I want to revisit what I’ve already accomplished in my career,” the guy said in 2011. Steuplait Jim, come back! We want to forget “The Son of Mask” , the horrible film that claimed to be the sequel to “The Mask” …
Bill Murray in “Ghost SOS 3”
Although a “controversial ” reboot of “SOS Ghosts” was born in the summer of 2016, all fans have hoped for many years during the release of “SOS Ghosts 3” , which had been announced as of the release of the 2nd movie. But the project has been overwhelmed, largely because of Bill Murray , as director Ivan Reitman told Vulture: “I worked with Gene Stupnitksy and Lee Eisenberg, who wrote several films and worked on the series The They had written a very amusing script and I wanted to do it like Harold and Dan Aykroyd, but Bill refused to read it for a year, and then he read a few pages and just told me That he did not want to do it,
Katie Holmes in “The Dark Knight”
You cleaned your eyes in front of the screen, you did not really recognize Katie Holmes in “The Dark Knight” . For a simple reason, the lady who played Rachel Dawes in “Batman Begins” refused to rewrite, forcing the prod to replace her by Maggie Gyllenhaal . But why this refusal? Rumor has it that Tom Cruise, her husband at that time, would expressly ask her not to return there pure jealousy towards Christian Bale … But the most likely reason is that Katie Holmes refused the project to dedicate herself To the movie “Mad Money” , a comedy that made a mega-bide. This is what is known as having pif.
Alan Cumming in “X-Men: The Final Clash”
His interpretation of Diablo in “X-Men 2” had seduced the fans, and yet Alan Cumming did not want to hear about a possible participation in “X-Men 3: The Final Clash” . In fact: he did not want to relive the endless hours of makeup that his character requires, a hell Jennifer Lawrence had already complained for his character Mystique.
Keanu Reeves in “Speed 2”
If Sandra Bullock yielded to the sirens of a “Speed” sequel , Keanu Reeves saw the big trap arrive like a boat , as he recognized at Jimmy Kimmel: “Of course, I loved working with Jan de Bont and Sandra (Bullock) It’s just that when I got the script, I read it, my face did ‘ughhhhhh’, it was talking about a steamer … I thought ‘bus , Steamer, speed … but a steamer is much slower than a bus! ‘ In my mind it was understood, I had to tell them ‘I love you guys very much but I can not do that’ ” . Well he took it.
Crispin Glover in “Back to the Future 2”
The situation here is slightly different. If Crispin Glover aka George McFly is not in the cast of RVLF 2, it is because the man was no longer desired by the prod. A lot of reasons have been put forward to explain this rejection: he says he has quarreled with the director Robert Zemeckis for artistic disputes. Others say that the actor was mentally unstable. Finally, the most likely reason is that the guy would have been far too greedy level salary, claiming $ 1 million to resume his daron role in both suites . Ironically, he later pocketed 760,000 dollars by suing the studio because images of him from the first film were used in these same suites …

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You have the soul of a torturer? Become a Sergeant and regale yourself

sivertime — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 19:21:58 +0000

If you like playing the little chief, yelling at people, manipulating them, no longer looking. Your way is traced. Become a Sergeant. Or play the sergeant in the movies.
Sergeant First Class Merwin J. Toomey (Biloxi Blues, 1988)
Cruel and sadistic, he did not let go of his troops. It prepares them as best as possible to face the Japanese during the Second World War. Sometimes funny, often spicy , so he tortures his guys that they dream to travel and to sleep in an enemy camp.
Sergeant Drill (Forrest Gump, 1994)
In perpetual screaming. He was born like that. Even at 10 cm from your presence, it is expressed as a (met nationality you want) aviné at 4am, which spits on you . Not necessarily bad, eh. But he could talk normally, and less closely, it would be cool.
Major Benson Payne (Major Payne, 1995)
He plays the guy all the time. No empathy, complacency, excuses accepted. Big, sick, small, tired: nothing to fuck. And the worst part is that he has a hoarse voice! Acute, strident when he climbs in the towers … Not to mention that he taps poses a little ridiculous when he delivers an explanation that he considers important.
Sergeant Major Regimental (“Monthy Python, the meaning of life”, 1983)
The good guy. A little con, suddenly the others abuse him. In front of his troops, he bawls, makes faces, breaks his voice to ignite alone … and asked the soldiers what he would rather do than march with him. And he lets them all leave, finding himself alone. A genius.
Sergeant First Class Hulka (“Stripes”, 1981)
An old old man who wants to make young war machines. Inevitably, it falls on arrows, lazy … Hulka would be willing to kill if necessary, to motivate them . Even when he is wounded, lying on the ground, when a guy asks if the day is over, he strangles him with the hand that remains valid to him. A mad person.
DI Fitch (“Jarhead”, 2005)
Provocation and psychological torture is his dada. He asks if you have a girlfriend? This is to tell you that she gets stuffed by another man during that time . He asks if you are in love with him? Wrong answer in all cases, you make pumps. Oh yeah, you ever been on the field and you came back? You’re a coward, a shit. A cream.
Sergeant Zim (“Starship troopers”, 1997)
No hesitation, if he has to fuck you, he will. Finally, he must, he wants what. A look, a remark, a joke: it may be enough to make him freak and you break your arm, you run a knife, strangle you until unconsciousness. He wants his soldiers to be at the top. It even leads them to hunt insects. Question of precision.
Sergeant Hartman (“Full Metal Jacket”, 1987)
Pedagogy? That is to say ? No, I do not see no. Personally, I shout, I confuse them and they close it. That is how we could summarize Sergeant Hartman’s technique. Few questioned, no room for dialogue . Walk or crash, literally. This does not work with everyone, no soldier Whale anyway … So vocations? Seeing reconversions after reading this?

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The families of these characters must get on well at Christmas

sivertime — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 16:54:45 +0000

Even the most avaricious then make efforts to open the wallet a little. And given the financial means of these characters, you can negotiate things a little reuch.
The day after Christmas, you brought your presents home, you kiffes, you tell what you got. It is here that we must not cross a guy who will make you understand that he had much better and drunk you. Besides, luckily the movie characters do not exist in real life, if not their relatives could quite gorging yourself today.
Jay Gatsby (“Gatsby the Magnificent”)
The only thing we know is that he has money. Seeing his hut and his almost daily evenings where he rinses everyone, no need to be Sherlock Holmes to guess it. However, no one knows how he got it all. The past of the young bogoss remains unknown. Anyway, Jay Gatsby is pretty good leg and tries to make love, even strangers . So if he had cousins or whatever, he would regale them. (PS: to see Leo in rich, you can also watch “The Wolf of Wall-Street” or “Aviator”).
Charles Montgomery Burns (“The Simpsons”)
All the contrary of Gatsby: old (104 years), ugly, origin of the fortune known and … ramin as not allowed. That is the flaw in the plan. His colleagues, uh, what I say, his subordinates clearly can not hope for. Burns behaves like a rat, shamelessly. The billions amassed by the nuclear power plant that he owns and directs do nothing: if he can sink or drill a trick, he will. Maybe his family manages to make him let go a little taken . If only a little, it would make a sacred gift.
Tony Stark (“Iron Man”)
A son to Papa who always rolled on gold. At the head of Stark Industries, the golden boy thrives on arms sales to the US Army . And as in reality, this one does not skimp on investments! The fortune of this survivor of Vietnam who his ride in armor would rise to more than 10 billion dollars.
Charles Foster Kane ( ” CitizenCharles Foster Kane (“Citizen Kane”)
Sign that times are changing (how’s MC Solaar anyway?) At one time the press had the moneyA sign that times are changing (how is MC Solaar by the way?) Was a time when the press made money. A lot, even. Watch this film (quality more) and you will see Mr. Kane live in opulence. This magnate visibly encountered no problems to complete the end of the month . Nor even a year. According to the rumors, it would have counted about 8M $.
Forrest Gump (Eponymous Movie)
A good guy. And a very rich guy. The prototype of the American self-made man except that we do not realize it because Forrest is not a bastard who scams people. Besides, he does not even know that it is screened, it works to the fun: football, table tennis, shrimp boat captain and star marathoner … So, he did not ask questions about love Jenny, who had never wanted him before, when he was poor and disabled. Gentle like everything, Forrest will offer you what you want to make you happy. It is up to you not to abuse and respect this generous man.
Carlisle Cullen (“Twilight 1: fascination”)
With several tens of billions of dollars on the account, it is serene. And he deserved it because he worked. Over 300 years of taf, not a lazy guy . Ok, he’s vampire and immortal, so it helps to level the plans over the long term. But it was necessary to make the judicious investments, in addition to his income as a doctor. Who would still have unsatisfied little cravings?

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