Thread: Books and movies based on them - Книги и их экранизации

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

Our movie thread is so HUGE that I decided to start a new one, dedicated specifically to movies/series which were based on novels, plays, comic books, etc.

The main difference is that we can discuss and compare both books and movies here, and also give recomendations on movies-related books.

What a great idea!

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

I'll start with Hichkok's Hitchcock's "Psycho" which I watched a few days ago.

But I want to be fair to this classic picture, so I'll keep researching.
I'm reading Bloch's novel right now (and so far I like it better ), and a very interesting and thorough book by Joseph W. Smith III "The Psycho File. A Comprehensive Guide to Hitchcock’s Classic Shocker".

While I've seen a number of Hitchcock films, I never watched Psycho, Marnie or The Birds! I had no idea that Psycho was taken from a book!

One thing you should never do is see the movie and then read the book. I saw the movie Вий based on the story by Gogol. Now I'm reading the story and instead of using my imagination my mind is filled with images from the movie (which wasn't very good).

rockzmom, I'm sorry that for spoilers then. (thanks for corrections!)
I watched "Birds", but I was mostly interested in crazy birds attacking humans, and missed half of the plot.
The best Hitchcock movie I've seen was "The Rope". It has a very chilling premise and characters are much more realistic than in other Hitchcock's thrillers. BTW, it's also based on a book, which is based on the real murder case.

Originally Posted by sperk

One thing you should never do is see the movie and then read the book.

Well, sometimes there's no other way around it - it's that or not to read a book at all. (

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

rockzmom, I'm sorry that for spoilers then. (thanks for corrections!)
I watched "Birds", but I was mostly interested in crazy birds attacking humans, and missed half of the plot.
The best Hitchcock movie I've seen was "The Rope". It has a very chilling premise and characters are much more realistic than in other Hitchcock's thrillers. BTW, it's also based on a book, which is based on the real murder case.
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Oh, not to worry on my account... I hadn't watch them because I really was not interested in them! My favorite is North by Northwest. I also liked Rear Window which... I just searched and found is based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder"