And the word was made film
There is this story of the goat that ate a reel of film and commented that it preferred the book. While most films versions of books do not quite match up to their print avatars, here are some movies that made the cut.
Gone with the Wind: David O. Selznik bought the rights to Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of a tempestuous love story between the wilful Scarlet O' Hara and man about town Rhett Butler set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the rest is of course history.
Jane Austen: She is a moviemaker's dream. There have been nine versions of Pride and Prejudice starting from a TV series in 1938 to the latest in 2005 with the lovely Keira Knightley as Liz Bennett. There was also an excellent mini series in 1995 with Colin Firth as Darcy. Oscar winning Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995) was expectedly exquisite.
Brokeback Mountain: Ang Lee turned Annie Proulx's short story of a forbidden love between two cowboys into a grand aching love story with Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall playing the star crossed lovers.
Dr. Zhivago: The 1965 film by David Lean starring Omar Sharif as the good doctor and Geraldine Chaplin as Tonya bought Boris Pasternak's novel about love in the time of revolution brilliantly to life.
The Hours: Reading Michael Cunningham's wonderfully textured multi-layered The Hours one was convinced there was no way this could be made a film. Director Stephen Daldry emphatically proved otherwise and Nicole Kidman walked away with the Oscar for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf.
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