I just finally read James Dickey's novel "Deliverance," and was struck by how great the movie truly is. The novel actually reads almost like the script. It lends some depth, but the acting is so good in the movie that most of it is there anyway. I think the movie is better than the book actually, which is a rare occurrence ("The Swimmer" with Burt Lancaster is another, and maybe "No Country for Old Men," to pick a recent example).
I was happy to see that one of the best lines in the movie is in the original as well: "Machines are going to fail."
Longtime readers of the Apistogramma will recall that line fondly, I am sure.
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In the crime/noir genre, its often the movies that outshine the short, simple novels that they are based on. I'm thinking of books by guys like Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, etc. I think No Country sort of falls into this category.
Machines aren't going to fail. They're going to take over: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2bExqhhWRI
Miroslaw Kusmierski
whoa, how have you been, I haven't heard from you in way too long!
I agree with you about many of those guys, but not Chandler. Some of the movies are masterpieces, but his books are a whole other category.
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