Adaptations Flashcards

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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Robert Mulligan

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Harper Lee’s novel

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The Godfather (1972, 1974)
Francis Ford Coppola

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Mario Puzo’s novel

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Little Women (2019)
Greta Gerwig

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Louisa May Alcott’s novel

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The Color Purple (1985)
Steven Spielberg

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Alice Walker’s novel

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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Victor Lonzo Fleming

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L. Frank Baum’s novel

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The Remains of the Day (1993)
James Ivory

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel

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Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Ang Lee

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Jane Austen’s novel

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Forrest Gump (1994)
Robert Zemeckis

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Winston Groom’s novel

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Doctor Zhivago (1965)
David Lean

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Boris Pasternak’s novel

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Hidden Figures (2016)
Theodore Melfi

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Margot Lee Shetterly’s novel

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Schindler’s List (1993)
Steven Spielberg

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Thomas Keneally’s book

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Great Expectations (1946)
David Lean

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Charles Dickens’s novel

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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Frank Darabont

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Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

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No Country for Old Men (2007)
Coen brothers

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Cormac McCarthy

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Goodfellas (1990)
Martin Scorsese

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Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi

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Fight Club (1999)
David Fincher

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Chuck Palahniuk’s novel

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Don’t Look Now (1973)
Nicolas Jack Roeg

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Daphne Du Maurier’s short story

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MAS*H (1970)
Robert Altman

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Richard Hooker’s novel

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The Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957)
David Lean

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Pierre Boulle’s 1952 novel

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The Social Network (2010)
David Fincher

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The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich

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The Exorcist (1973)
William Friedkin

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William Peter Blatty

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Wonder Boys (2000)
Curtis Hanson

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Michael Chabon’s novel

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Room (2015)
Lenny Abrahamson

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Emma Donoghue

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L.A. Confidential (1997)
Curtis Hanson

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James Ellroy’s classic noir

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Miloš Forman

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Ken Kesey’s novel

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Psycho (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock

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Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel

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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Jonathan Demme

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Thomas Harris’s novel

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Metropolis (1927)
Fritz Lang

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written by Thea von Harbou, then married to the film’s director, Fritz Lang) is unusual in that Harbou wrote the novel more or less as promotion for the film.

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Blake Edwards

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Truman Capote’s novel

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American Psycho (2000)
Mary Harron

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Bret Easton Ellis’s novel

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Stephen Chbosky

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Stephen Chbosky

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Jackie Brown (1997)
Quentin Tarantino

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Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard

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Trainspotting (1996)
Danny Boyle

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Irvine Welsh

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The Shining (1980)

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Stephen King

35
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Martin Scorsese

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David Grann