ITT we chit chat about "The Books" vs. "The Movies"

[GammaGirl1908]

I don't see many movies, but I've been disappointed so often by movies where I've read the book that I often now actively avoid the movie. Either they leave out my favorite part, or it's so different than the scene was in my mind's eye that I'm irked, or the actors look and sound nothing like they did in my mind's eye. It is for this reason that I've read all of the Harry Potters, but haven't seen a frame of the movies. I know what those characters look and sound like; I'll just be mad when Chris Columbus or whoever gets it wrong (by my standards).

But the works where I've read the book and seen the movie include:

*Romeo and Juliet
*To Kill a Mockingbird
*A Separate Peace
*The Firm
*The Pelican Brief
*The Rainmaker
*The Client
*Girl, Interrupted (this one fell victim to ALL of the above. I disagreed with the casting, they left out my favorite parts, and they got the ones wrong they did include. Sigh.)
*The Color Purple
*Anne of Green Gables
*Little Women
*Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
*Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

I'm sure there are others, but those come to mind.

A work where I've seen the movie but haven't read the book:

*The Princess Bride. I have the book and got about 10 pages in, and was bored to tears. But I LOVE the movie and know every line.