2017 TV/Movie/Book Thread with Spoilers

[Triple 7]

Also, anchovies are gross. Bad example.

I agree but I also don't like dated tv shows so it worked for me.

[thomchatt3rton]

Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls would make an outstanding 4-6 hour HBO miniseries. There are so many great scenes in that book, it seems like even an average writer could fall out of bed and come out with a very good adaptation.

Not only that, but it has a truly first-rate character in Pilar (a very good one in Pablo as well) and some excellent, clear, well-written supporting cast. There's great dialogue, humor, tragedy galore, action, and it's well-plotted too. The themes are universal enough that it could easily be made to feel relevant.

It's strange that nobody adapts Hemingway- people still make movies and stuff that reference him or movies about him, but nobody adapts any of his stuff.

[FrieAaron]

Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls would make an outstanding 4-6 hour HBO miniseries. There are so many great scenes in that book, it seems like even an average writer could fall out of bed and come out with a very good adaptation.

Not only that, but it has a truly first-rate character in Pilar (a very good one in Pablo as well) and some excellent, clear, well-written supporting cast. There's great dialogue, humor, tragedy galore, action, and it's well-plotted too. The themes are universal enough that it could easily be made to feel relevant.

It's strange that nobody adapts Hemingway- people still make movies and stuff that reference him or movies about him, but nobody adapts any of his stuff.

I just read "The Sun Also Rises" this year and really liked it. One of my favorites of the year. As far as adaptations go, I like "The Killers" with Burt Lancaster a lot, although I don't know how close it is to the source.

[thomchatt3rton]

Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls would make an outstanding 4-6 hour HBO miniseries. There are so many great scenes in that book, it seems like even an average writer could fall out of bed and come out with a very good adaptation.

Not only that, but it has a truly first-rate character in Pilar (a very good one in Pablo as well) and some excellent, clear, well-written supporting cast. There's great dialogue, humor, tragedy galore, action, and it's well-plotted too. The themes are universal enough that it could easily be made to feel relevant.

It's strange that nobody adapts Hemingway- people still make movies and stuff that reference him or movies about him, but nobody adapts any of his stuff.

I just read "The Sun Also Rises" this year and really liked it. One of my favorites of the year. As far as adaptations go, I like "The Killers" with Burt Lancaster a lot, although I don't know how close it is to the source.

Sun also Rises is really great. I love that Lady Brett.

Killers is a very short story. Haven't seen the film but there must have been a lot of invention by the screenwriters to get a movie out of it. If I'm not mistaken, it's the only film adaptation of his work that Hemingway liked.

I just looked into it, and it seems that there hasn't been a movie or tv adaptation of Hemingway since 1984 (seems a shame to me in this day and age when people are turning to stuff like the Man in the High Tower for source material but what do I know?).

I'm sure it's partially because so many people dislike him personally (which is fair- he was an awful person) and because he's so particularly culturally/politically incorrect by today's standards. I don't blame people for not being able to stomach him.
But man is there a lot of great stuff there going unmined.

[ReasonablySober]

Corporate is pretty funny. Kinda giving me Better Off Ted vibes.