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Scene from Gone With the Wind (Image credit: Culver Pictures/© 1939 Turner Entertainment Co. All Rights Reserved)
Do Great Books Make Great Movies?
When Hollywood studios make a movie that's based on a book, many filmgoers are faced with a nagging question: Is it OK to see the movie if you haven't read the book? Well, we're here to tell you that it's nothing to be ashamed of. But reading the book--before or after you see the movie--will add countless details that may not have been included in the film version. Plus, you might discover some interesting choices in the adaptation. See how well you know the book, the movie--or both.
1
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy took director Peter Jackson seven years to complete. How long did it take writer J. R. R. Tolkien to complete the books?
2
In the 1994 film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868-1869), Winona Ryder played Jo March. Who played Jo in the 1933 version of the film?
3
Which award-winning war film was based on Joseph Conrad's book Heart of Darkness (1902)?
4
There have been several movie versions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Which of the following actors has not played the role of Hamlet in a movie?
5
Clueless, the 1995 film starring Alicia Silverstone as the teenage heroine Cher, is based on which classic novel?
6
Which actor made his motion-picture debut as the reclusive Boo Radley in the 1962 film of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)?
7
Nicole Kidman won an Academy Award for her role as Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002), which was based on Michael Cunningham's 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. Which of Virginia Woolf's works was central to the story?
8
Although the name of Harry's owl is used in the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1998), it is not mentioned in the movie version. What is the owl's name?
9
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) won five Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture. How did Ken Kesey, who wrote the 1962 novel, react to the movie?
10
When Rhett Butler (played by Clark Gable) declared "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" in Gone With the Wind (1939), he uttered one of the most famous lines in movie history. In the book, the line was slightly different. What was it?
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