mine is José Saramago's Blindness super hard book to adapt, the movie is amazing Gael Garcia Bernal took a character and made him very different from the book, but at the same time totally faithful to the character
I didn't want to disagree, but when he said, "there's really only one movie to talk about," I had to! Even if only to make sure that "A Clockwork Orange" gets a mention.
I grew up in pleasant hill, and Kesey was livid with what Douglas had done to his story. I remember it well, It’s funny that it became your favourite adaptation 🌈 thanks for sharing!
Milos Forman is all about a precise movie craftmanship, just see his earlier work, movies like The Firemen's Ball or Loves of a Blonde. Later work like Amadeus or Vaůmont is great too, but I like him young and rather idealistic.
Last of the mohicans for me, michael mann’s largely rewritten ending of unstoppable paternal rage is maybe the most powerful in cinema history. OFOTCN is a strong choice too, not much different from kesey’s perfect text though.
Well written comment. Mann’s simmering build is what we fantasize about. Sicario is the ultimate realization of that building sequence. You know the one I’m talking about :)
Ethan ! xoxo I worked on Gattacca with you years and years ago in locations. I adore One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, but for relief in 2020... I was a straying to "Meatballs" with Bill Murray.
Oooooh, loved this segment! And excellent answer from Ethan. I’d like to see more of these one-offs, impromptu segments of celebrities like this. A positive of this pandemic show format has been to see celebrities let loose and put their guards down. Getting to know more about them in ways that don’t revolve around their wealth or their popularity has been nice to watch. Also, looking forward to reading Ethan’s novel. 🤓 Oh, forgot to add that one of my favorite literature to screen adaptations is Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men. The Reginald Rose play and the Henry Fonda starring film are both masterpieces! Hitchcock’s adaptation of Rebecca is also superb!
I think there's an interesting insight to be gained in the transition of _The Hunger Games_ from book to film. It's an instance in which I actually read the book, first. In the book and the movie, there are tracker jackers, and they're a vital plot element with a backstory that needs explaining. In the book, when they come up, that backstory is just related. It flows naturally. In the movie, though, when they come up, they need to add details to explain them. There are a couple announcers watching the game and one of them says to the other, "Oh. Those are tracker jackers, aren't they?" and the other replies, "Oh. Yes. Folks, tracker jackers are..." and here comes the explanation. That's the kind of thing you need to do when transitioning a story from a book to the screen.
I disliked the movie at first because the central role is the native in the book and the movie focused on Jack’s character. I read the book first and wanted to see it from the native mans eyes as the book is written. Later I thought about it and conceded that it would be very impossible as chief Bromden doesn’t speak and loved all the actors who did the movie! I think the best by the book adaptation is the Other Side of Midnight it’s just like the book exactly. I love books! I highly recommend both films and books!
My husband, who was Native, played Chief in a stage production... He did multiple solo queue during the production. While he doesn't speak during the movie, he actually carries the stage version from the opening. Pretty awesome 😎
Only the shortest of novel can be faithful be adapted to a single film of two and half hours. Once you go longer more and more things have to be cut out. That's something that should be taken into account for any adaptation, if it's longer than 40k words best to make it a series format moving forward. IMO a premium series is just a better format in general for story telling.
The only beef I had with the film was the change in Murphy’s attack on Ratched. BTW, a good side read is “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” by Tom Wolfe. Chronicles the adventures of the Merry Pranksters. Kesey wrote a good deal of the book while tripping on acid.:)
i haven’t read too many books including the shining but thought he was gonna say that. it’s the first movie that comes to mind for me as far as novel-movie. i got the lead actor right.
Well, that's interesting. The shining is one of the best movies ever made but Kubrick took a lot of liberties and Stephen King HATE IT with a passion. King even tried to make a more closer version as a tv mini-series and ended up being absolutely terrible.
@@dannycr06 dr sleep marries the two books and the two movies very well . Stephen King said so himself. It brings back the heart to the movie that Stephen thinks was missing from the shining, so like I said it married the two books and movies back together in a way Stephen King appreciated.
@@dannycr06 what can i say, kubrick's film is legendary, and if he was preoccupied with staying as true to the book as possible, I'm sure it would be a lesser movie. but i guess stephen king has already proved that for us!
@@benmaynard3059 Which is funny because Dr. Sleep is an average movie. Shining is legendary. And TBH this stuff happens with lots of King's adaptations and I feel its because some of King's work just gets weak. "It" comes to mind. Original IT and remake have the same problem and its problem lies with the source material. Same happens to Dr. Sleep and The Shining. Dr Sleep just isn't as captivating, mysterious and suspencefull as The Shining. The changes Kubrick made was definitely for the better (and was proven right). I enjoyed Dr. Sleep like it was just a popcorn flick, nothing more, nothing less and it will be forgotten. The Shining will remain as a top of the list movie forever
@@dannycr06 well , that's an opinion , and opinions are typically skewered to the internal "nuts and bolts" of any one person's experiences and point of view. But having said that , your opinions are valid.
Nice. I read A Tale of Two Cities for 10th grade English Composition, wanna make an adaption of that pleasant novel? Maybe a very gory mini series...lol. Seriously though, Ive seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but never read it, thanks for recommendation, it's now on my reading list. 💋
The whole thing is symbolic. The chief escapes, so he flew over the cuckoo's nest undetected the whole time... Was in a stage products few years back, was so awesome.
Kesey hated the film, as you probably all know. I would have liked to hear Ethan’s take on how well an author understands his own work and whether that’s even relevant. Ethan Hawke has morphed into kind of the Dennis Hopper of his generation. Or maybe Peter Fonda. The guy who has seen it and done it all and can talk about anything and everything.
Though it is more fair to say that he hated the idea of the film, or his idea(s) of/about the film. He never watched it. His son, Zane, just a few months ago reiterated that Ken refused to ever take the time. He said that his dad felt robbed on the contract (a one-time cash payment up front) and Ken said in print, in the '70s, that he didn't like Nicholson cast as RPM. (A one-time cash payment with a percentage of the profits is the standard offer to authors in film contracts, and only a huge literary star with a long track record of best-sellers and hit films derived from them could negotiate points off the gross. Films never make profits per the studios' accounting, so it's just the fee up front. The Tolkien Trust famously sued and settled for more, having realized they should have cut a better deal up front.)
My favorite movie version of a book hands down is Fight Club. After watching the movie thought to myself 'I wonder how much better the book would be?' The book needed a real editor, it was a hot mess of a deus ex machina character like the 'Mechanic' and the ending was meh to say the least. The movie adaption was a cleaned up, seamless script that smoked what it was adapting, a sad story. I never read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and it's been a very long time since I saw the movie adaptation but hey, the pandemic welcomes correcting that. =)
Don't know - maybe i watched to much "tested" material, but this whole clip could work perfectly with Adam Savage instead of Ethan Hawke. Even more so in the second half of the clip.
Arguably better, though I think they're both incredible. It's slightly different - the book is narrated from the Chief's POV and provides way more background for him as a character, whereas the movie is told from McMurphy's POV. Definitely read it.
You didn’t understand the movie at all. The lobotomy they gave Jack Nicholson’s character was unjust and when the native kills him and throws the machine out the window to escape is the whole point of the story. Maybe read the book so you have a better understanding as killing him was a great act of mercy and leaving there was finally a way he could be free from the injustice. It’s a brilliantly written book it’s why it’s studied in schools.
The book sets up the paranoid/schizophrenic Chief's motivations and actions; basically killing the machine-thing that the Combine substituted for the real R.P.McMurphy
Absolutely brilliant actor is Ethan Hawke. Never phoned it in once in his career. Love all his films and performances.
He's looking more and more like the unhinged older version of himself from Predestination, and I am here for it 😍😘
mine is José Saramago's Blindness
super hard book to adapt, the movie is amazing
Gael Garcia Bernal took a character and made him very different from the book, but at the same time totally faithful to the character
🤯 Gael ♥
Ooo! I’ll have to look that one up.
It was definitely a good movie, but for me it wasn't as good as the novel.
I didn't want to disagree, but when he said, "there's really only one movie to talk about," I had to! Even if only to make sure that "A Clockwork Orange" gets a mention.
Hell yes
Lord of the Flies. 1963 film version of 1954 novel by William Golding.
I grew up in pleasant hill, and Kesey was livid with what Douglas had done to his story. I remember it well, It’s funny that it became your favourite adaptation 🌈 thanks for sharing!
Pride & Prejudice (1995) is another perfect adaptation of a novel.
My favorite!
Yes!!
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who was struck by this as "weird"
That Jack Nicholson impersonation. Wow.
He's brilliant in Gattaca.
Awesome movie and an awesome Norm McDonald joke... which is why I watched it in the first place 😂
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He’s brilliant in everything!
Maya Hawke wouldn't be born without GATTACA
Mr. Hawke, you are one of the most interesting, versatile actors ever! Keep up the great work!💝💝💝
I liked your Snow Falling on Cedars and Great Expectations, Ethan.
Loved him in 'Maudie', just wonderful acting in a intens but heartfelt way.
Awesome! 👍
Was nurse in a stage production of Cuckoo's Nest, several years back :)
My all time favorite movie. I can watch it over & over.
First half is pure euphoria and laughter. Then it gets real. My favorite flick ever probably.
I can safely say having watched Forman's film version saved my life. Nice call from handsome Mr. Ethan.
Ethan Hawke looks like he once sold a mogwai to somebody in a basement shop.
So moving the Chief's act of mercy. Just thinking about it brings tears.
I want this to be a regular thing Stephen!!
Milos Forman is all about a precise movie craftmanship, just see his earlier work, movies like The Firemen's Ball or Loves of a Blonde. Later work like Amadeus or Vaůmont is great too, but I like him young and rather idealistic.
Have you seen Taking Off, the movie he made in 1971? Foreman is just a genius. Catch a very young Kathy Bates playing guitar in that movie!
LOVE Ethan Hawke....best is Training Day!
Last of the mohicans for me, michael mann’s largely rewritten ending of unstoppable paternal rage is maybe the most powerful in cinema history. OFOTCN is a strong choice too, not much different from kesey’s perfect text though.
Well written comment. Mann’s simmering build is what we fantasize about. Sicario is the ultimate realization of that building sequence. You know the one I’m talking about :)
One of my favorite Top 3 Actors of All Time. Maybe my favorite.
Ethan ! xoxo I worked on Gattacca with you years and years ago in locations. I adore One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, but for relief in 2020... I was a straying to "Meatballs" with Bill Murray.
Ethan Hawke is so utterly endearing. 🖤
Oooooh, loved this segment! And excellent answer from Ethan. I’d like to see more of these one-offs, impromptu segments of celebrities like this. A positive of this pandemic show format has been to see celebrities let loose and put their guards down. Getting to know more about them in ways that don’t revolve around their wealth or their popularity has been nice to watch. Also, looking forward to reading Ethan’s novel. 🤓 Oh, forgot to add that one of my favorite literature to screen adaptations is Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men. The Reginald Rose play and the Henry Fonda starring film are both masterpieces! Hitchcock’s adaptation of Rebecca is also superb!
Ethan Hawke, a fine line between SANE and INSANE. 😏
Aren't we all?
I agree with Hawke on Cuckoo's Nest. Into The Wild was a great adaption of a superb book as well.
Ethan Hawke looking a bit like Alan Watts here and I'm loving it. :)
Ethan Hawke is kind of amazing nowadays.
Yes, but he's always been great haha
My experience of this book vs movie is EXACTLY the same. I'm going home tonight to watch it now.
One of my all time favourite movies is Snow Falling on Cedars starring, of course, Ethan Hawke
Totally agree with this book and movie!
Ken Kesey is a brilliant writer
Amen! It is a brilliant movie!!
I have a difficult time disagreeing, & in fact have listed this film/novel combo before as essentials in "best adaptations" lists.
I think there's an interesting insight to be gained in the transition of _The Hunger Games_ from book to film. It's an instance in which I actually read the book, first. In the book and the movie, there are tracker jackers, and they're a vital plot element with a backstory that needs explaining.
In the book, when they come up, that backstory is just related. It flows naturally.
In the movie, though, when they come up, they need to add details to explain them. There are a couple announcers watching the game and one of them says to the other, "Oh. Those are tracker jackers, aren't they?" and the other replies, "Oh. Yes. Folks, tracker jackers are..." and here comes the explanation.
That's the kind of thing you need to do when transitioning a story from a book to the screen.
Wow, Ethan Hawke agrees with me. Sometimes a Great Notion, Kesey's other great novel, is another amazing book.
Completely agree...
I completely agree with what he said. I’ll take it one step further and I think the movie is better than the book.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a great one.
I disliked the movie at first because the central role is the native in the book and the movie focused on Jack’s character. I read the book first and wanted to see it from the native mans eyes as the book is written. Later I thought about it and conceded that it would be very impossible as chief Bromden doesn’t speak and loved all the actors who did the movie! I think the best by the book adaptation is the Other Side of Midnight it’s just like the book exactly. I love books! I highly recommend both films and books!
My husband, who was Native, played Chief in a stage production... He did multiple solo queue during the production. While he doesn't speak during the movie, he actually carries the stage version from the opening. Pretty awesome 😎
@@julesmbc Awesome sounds wonderful! Love this book!
Only the shortest of novel can be faithful be adapted to a single film of two and half hours. Once you go longer more and more things have to be cut out. That's something that should be taken into account for any adaptation, if it's longer than 40k words best to make it a series format moving forward. IMO a premium series is just a better format in general for story telling.
I love this guy.
The only beef I had with the film was the change in Murphy’s attack on Ratched.
BTW, a good side read is “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” by Tom Wolfe. Chronicles the adventures of the Merry Pranksters. Kesey wrote a good deal of the book while tripping on acid.:)
More of things like this
It's funny that julie delpy mentioned in wtf podcast that her favorite movie is one flew over cuckoo nest too
I have an Ethan Hawk story in a horror anthology. It's a very good story.
Teeeeccchnically, the film is an adaptation of the stage play, NOT the novel... interesting history, look it up
i haven’t read too many books including the shining but thought he was gonna say that. it’s the first movie that comes to mind for me as far as novel-movie. i got the lead actor right.
Well, that's interesting. The shining is one of the best movies ever made but Kubrick took a lot of liberties and Stephen King HATE IT with a passion. King even tried to make a more closer version as a tv mini-series and ended up being absolutely terrible.
@@dannycr06 dr sleep marries the two books and the two movies very well . Stephen King said so himself. It brings back the heart to the movie that Stephen thinks was missing from the shining, so like I said it married the two books and movies back together in a way Stephen King appreciated.
@@dannycr06 what can i say, kubrick's film is legendary, and if he was preoccupied with staying as true to the book as possible, I'm sure it would be a lesser movie. but i guess stephen king has already proved that for us!
@@benmaynard3059 Which is funny because Dr. Sleep is an average movie. Shining is legendary. And TBH this stuff happens with lots of King's adaptations and I feel its because some of King's work just gets weak. "It" comes to mind. Original IT and remake have the same problem and its problem lies with the source material. Same happens to Dr. Sleep and The Shining. Dr Sleep just isn't as captivating, mysterious and suspencefull as The Shining. The changes Kubrick made was definitely for the better (and was proven right). I enjoyed Dr. Sleep like it was just a popcorn flick, nothing more, nothing less and it will be forgotten. The Shining will remain as a top of the list movie forever
@@dannycr06 well , that's an opinion , and opinions are typically skewered to the internal "nuts and bolts" of any one person's experiences and point of view. But having said that , your opinions are valid.
Nice. I read A Tale of Two Cities for 10th grade English Composition, wanna make an adaption of that pleasant novel? Maybe a very gory mini series...lol.
Seriously though, Ive seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but never read it, thanks for recommendation, it's now on my reading list. 💋
My favorite film adaptation of a novel is "The Mosquito Coast".
The Shining
The Godfather 1&2
Fear and Loathing in LV
Yep. Don't let the Ratched' miniseries lead you to believe you got the gist of OFOTCN, either... see it.
My problem with Ratched is that she was ALREADY the Nurse Ratched we knew from OFITCN.
Remove the title of the book from the title of the video, it's better
The whole thing is symbolic. The chief escapes, so he flew over the cuckoo's nest undetected the whole time... Was in a stage products few years back, was so awesome.
The shining, again with Jack N.
Some other good adaptations
Sideways
Everything is Illuminated
Requiem for a Dream
American Splendor
O Brother Where Art Thou?
O Brother!!
I was going to mention Requiem, one of the first that popped into my head.
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What role is Ethan doing now? His personality seems a little different. I wonder if that is effecting him.
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Kesey hated the film, as you probably all know. I would have liked to hear Ethan’s take on how well an author understands his own work and whether that’s even relevant.
Ethan Hawke has morphed into kind of the Dennis Hopper of his generation. Or maybe Peter Fonda. The guy who has seen it and done it all and can talk about anything and everything.
Though it is more fair to say that he hated the idea of the film, or his idea(s) of/about the film. He never watched it. His son, Zane, just a few months ago reiterated that Ken refused to ever take the time. He said that his dad felt robbed on the contract (a one-time cash payment up front) and Ken said in print, in the '70s, that he didn't like Nicholson cast as RPM. (A one-time cash payment with a percentage of the profits is the standard offer to authors in film contracts, and only a huge literary star with a long track record of best-sellers and hit films derived from them could negotiate points off the gross. Films never make profits per the studios' accounting, so it's just the fee up front. The Tolkien Trust famously sued and settled for more, having realized they should have cut a better deal up front.)
I'm still trying to figure out what's on the wall behind him.. 🤔
Would you consider Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel to be an adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesteryear an adaptation?
No. ;-)
The best adaptation of a novel is The Exorcist
Is this the guy from Mission Impossible?
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My favorite movie version of a book hands down is Fight Club.
After watching the movie thought to myself 'I wonder how much better the book would be?'
The book needed a real editor, it was a hot mess of a deus ex machina character like the 'Mechanic' and the ending was meh to say the least.
The movie adaption was a cleaned up, seamless script that smoked what it was adapting, a sad story.
I never read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and it's been a very long time since I saw the movie adaptation but hey, the pandemic welcomes correcting that. =)
Guess how old nicholson was in the film=
Don't know - maybe i watched to much "tested" material, but this whole clip could work perfectly with Adam Savage instead of Ethan Hawke.
Even more so in the second half of the clip.
Is the book just as good? Never read it.
Arguably better, though I think they're both incredible. It's slightly different - the book is narrated from the Chief's POV and provides way more background for him as a character, whereas the movie is told from McMurphy's POV. Definitely read it.
Spoiler alert: Chief kills him, the ending blows!!!
You didn’t understand the movie at all. The lobotomy they gave Jack Nicholson’s character was unjust and when the native kills him and throws the machine out the window to escape is the whole point of the story. Maybe read the book so you have a better understanding as killing him was a great act of mercy and leaving there was finally a way he could be free from the injustice. It’s a brilliantly written book it’s why it’s studied in schools.
He saves him, and escaped. Hence, one flew over the cuckoo's nest 👍 It's symbolic...
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The book sets up the paranoid/schizophrenic Chief's motivations and actions; basically killing the machine-thing that the Combine substituted for the real R.P.McMurphy
Ethan Hawke is just an older James Franco... ;-P
That's pretty harsh.
Jaws
I wish I could get paid the big bucks for acting crazy. It wouldn't be a far stretch.
Whatever, Eth.
The film American Psycho is far better than the novel.
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Film loses the paranoid Chief Broom, though. Most everything that you praise in the book is minimized in the film.
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