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For me, personally, It would be Snatch. It's such a great movie that I could watch again and again. So many interesting characters and a unique style that sets it apart from so many other movies. There's just that extra something in that movie
What about you, fellow Lemmites? What is your favourite movie?
For me it's definitely Fight Club. No big spoilers below, see it if you haven't.
The theme of hitting bottom purposefully in order to rebuild yourself consciously into who you want to become has stuck with me.
I've been through some shit since then and have had to rebuild. It's nice to look on it as an opportunity rather than a punishment.
The film was a near perfect rendition of the book. The only other case I can think of like that is LOTR.
So many things about that film are spot on - the casting, the direction, the music (Pixies, Dust Brothers). Again, LOTR also hit all the right notes in that respect.
LOTR did make a few notable changes, but I would argue they worked in the films benefit and didn't lose anything. for example Arwen saving Frodo is an excellent change
Translating a book to film is somewhat analogous to translating literature, particularly poetry, from one language to another. If the translation is too literal it risks failing in the target medium, whereas if it's too idiomatic then it risks reshaping the source material.
In the case of LOTR, as you say, the changes made for a better film, while remaining true to the source material, and so were entirely justified. The Hobbit, on the other hand, was a complete travesty, partly because they practically rewrote the story.
“Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.”
– Günter Grass