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Friday, May 12th, 2023

Live poll: Film Adaptations - The Second Round

List page: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls568253554/?ref_=m_ur

the poll page: https://www.imdb.com/poll/zZYDASXtskg/

The question is “Which film is as great or good as the classic source they are adapted from?”

Reviving a great idea for a poll by Nastasia that was started as Film Adaptations - The Second Round , but never completed and left it inactive since 2016 and at only 23 selections. Her description is “This list includes great film adaptations that just weren't lucky enough to get the place in The first list., because there are so many good movies made from the books and the criteria were a bit harsh. Here we can lower our standards a bit - overall rating of the movie may go down to the number 7, but no less, please!” 


I’ll fill up the rest because I have a good library of unabridged classic hardcover books by Reader’s Digest, paperback books I bought on my own, and finally classic literature that I know about but don’t have a copy of.


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3 years ago

Nastasia, if you are still out there. I hope you are not mad. Did I do this right? Did I do you justice? Did I pick good films. I was going for the type of classic literature that schools would require reading in English class while reserving really good ones for round 3 and 4. And it will include epic proms and classics plays. Did you ever have a high school English class or college English literature class that didn’t include a reading of watching a Shakespeare play?  I’ll include Voltaire, Ibsen, checkov (?), and Homer too

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3 years ago

You're making an assumption that people will follow the white rabbit to the older suggestion and its predecessor poll. 

Please...

1. Write out a/the question.

2. Add some necessary spacing between paragraphs.

3. Turn that ugly straight up link into a text link.

Reviving a great idea for a poll by Nastasia that was started at https://www.imdb.com/list/ls070936267/?ref_=m_ur but never completed and left it inactive since 2016 and at only 23 selections. Her description is “This list includes great film adaptations that just weren't lucky enough to get the place in the first poll, because there are so many good movies made from the books and the criteria were a bit harsh. Here we can lower our standards a bit - overall rating of the movie may go down to the number 7, but no less, please!”

[HERE]

I’ll fill up the rest because I have a good library of unabridged classic hardcover books by Reader’s Digest, paperback books I bought on my own, and finally classic literature that I know about but don’t have a copy of.

[AND PERHAPS HERE]

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@Tsarstepan​ done. I did try to put a space between the last paragraph and the one above it and the app is not doing it.

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3 years ago

It's great that you credit the original author, but I think you can shorten the title to Film Adaptations - The Second Round since you mention Nastasia in the intro text (it's also inaccurate since the list was a suggestion and not a live poll).

Maybe you can also move the question further down to make it more visible (plus a correction in bold, and you can replace the link to the "first list" with the live poll):

Reviving a great idea for a poll by Nastasia that was started as Film Adaptations - The Second Round , but never completed and left inactive since 2016 and at only 23 selections. Her description is “This list includes great film adaptations that just weren't lucky enough to get the place in the first list, because there are so many good movies made from the books and the criteria were a bit harsh. Here we can lower our standards a bit - overall rating of the movie may go down to the number 7, but no less, please!”

The question is “Which film is as great or good as the classic source they are adapted from?”

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@Jessica​ done. But I tried to keep the wording as close as possible to Jessica’s description.

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@dgranger​ 

Thanks. One more typo:

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@Jessica​ thank you. Fixing it now.

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3 years ago

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@Jessica​ thank you. I still get excited every time this happens. 
now I painted myself into a corner because when I first read her 2 lists, there were so many that entered my mind like “How could you have missed these?” And frankly “The Grapes of Wrath” and “How Green Was My Valley” literally screamed in my head. Especially since “The Grapes of Wrath” is still recommended reading today in American literature classes (1 of at least 2 guiding principle in completing this list. The other is can you still find it in print today. Or more than 1 film versions of it.)  now I got to choose between Wrath and Valley! Both were excellent adaptions.
And I held back some for a round 3! come on! No mention of Twain’s Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Or Edna Ferber’s “Showboat” or “So Big”?

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3 years ago

All Quiet on the Western Front (2023) only had the title and character names in common with the novel.

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@riverotter​ okey. Noted. But the story has been filmed before several times. That is just the newest version of it.