Conversations with wife

Conversations with wife today consisted of boys, friends, fashion, Valentine’s Day, family, food, the fires and of course books.
Wife made a mention of two things that struck up very interesting conversations. The first is books and changing them into movies.
It seems these days that every book that becomes slightly popular is made into either a movie or a TV series.
Here is a list of all the movies showing at Hoyts that have something to do with books:

He's just not that into you(one of the most popular “self help” books that was reviewed on Oprah years ago and is now even more popular in stores again because of the movie adaption that is based loosely on stereotypical females in different situations involving men)

Slumdog millionaire (another book that wasn’t that popular when first released but is now swarming our stores in bookshops because of the movie)
Twilight (enough said...)

Confessions of a shopaholic (a fictional story by a very well known female writer named Sophie Kinsella who has written many books which, I’m pretty sure, connect to each other. these titles are “shopaholic takes Manhattan” and “Shopaholic ties the knot” etc)

Underworld (although not an adaption from a book, this time the situation is backwards and novels were published based on the screenplay by the screenwriters Kevin Grevioux, Danny McBride, and Len Wiseman)

Hotel for dogs (not a very popular author for this children’s book but after seeing the movie some customers come in and have asked about this book)

Dark knight (a fantastic, epic adaption of the comic books)

Doubt (not based on a book this time but actually a play by American playwright John Patrick Shanley, who also directed the movie)

Marley and me (based on the biography that was also on Oprah. I remember when it first came out it went like hot cakes. I also remembering telling everyone who bought it to also buy a box of tissues as it will make EVERYONE cry)

Curious case of Benjamin button (a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald who also wrote stories like “The Great Gatsby” which was also made into a film)

Yes man (based on the biography by Danny Wallace who ran a test where he said yes to everything in a period of 6 months to see how it would change his life)

Revolutionary road (based on the book by Richard Yates which was written and published in 1961)

Frost/Nixon (based on the play that hit Broadway in 2007 before hitting the cinemas in 2009)
I’ve loved you so long (again a play by a French playwright Philippe Claudel)

The spirit (an interesting adaption as it’s based on a newspaper strip/comic from the 1940’s)

The day the earth stood still (the 2008 version is the remade version of the movie that screened in 1951. The story itself was based on the short story titled “Farewell to the Master” by American science fiction editor and writer Harry Bates)

The tale of Desperereaux (based on the children’s storybook that was published in 2003)

Hansel and Gretel (based loosely on the original fairytale with its own original ideas in the story)

The reader (based on the novel from 1995 the German writer Bernhard Schlink)

And that’s just movies that are in cinemas currently. There are waay more out there. I’m not bagging these movies i think its great that this is happening in many ways. In some cases it gets people reading more, like the twilight series and, if done right, can change the way you imagine the story in many good ways. Sometimes it even helps us grasp the meaning better when most studied books we learn in schools have movies connected to the books. However, when it comes to Hollywood coming up with something original, you got another thing coming! That’s not happening anymore!!
Thank you to IMDB for helping me research which movies are based on books. For more information on any of these movies and more visit this website
http://www.imdb.com/

The second interesting conversation I had with wife shall have to wait for another entry as I didn’t realise the first conversation would have gone on for so long!!

Thanks

Jinx xx