Egregious deviations from the book to the movie.

[taterguy]

What the fuck were the people who made Master of the World thinking when they moved Morganton from North Carolina to West Virginia.

There's nothing resembling Table Rock anywhere near West Virginia.

It totally fucked up the authenticity of the source material.

What are some examples of things like this that really piss you off?

[Iggo]

1. The Iliad and "Troy".

Not even close.

[Ptah]

2. The movie 'Oklahoma' was filmed in Arizona.

[Ron Obvious]

3. The Scarlet Letter

Absolutely nothing like the book at all.

[Archae]

4. I can think of one offhand...

The Lord Of The Rings movies.

Jackson took the entire Scouring Of The Shire and Death Of Saruman and Wormtongue out.

Jackson did film a death of Saruman, but set it at Isengard.
And had the wrong character shooting Wormtongue.

[Archae]

5. BTW, there is a movie that is 95% accurate to the book...

Surpisingly enough.

The animated "The Last Unicorn."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084237/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[mak3cats]

6. Great story! I have a collection of his works:

"The Fantasy Worlds of Peter S. Beagle" - it contains four stories. "A Fine and Private Place" is my favorite.

[Archae]

8. I have that same book.

And the story you mention is a good one.

[mak3cats]

7. The end of the movie "The Handmaid's Tale"...

...had the heroine crying and pleading not to be left by the man who took her across the border. Completely contrary to the novel's entire tone. And ROYALLY pissed me off!

[Lulu Belle]

9. "The Running Man"

From a good book, to a terrible movie!

[trof]

10. Not book to movie, but location.

'My Cousin Vinny' (Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Fred Gwynne) was set in Alabama.
It was filmed in Mississippi.
Why?

My native state is just as redneck as our neighbor to the west, if not more so.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. Mississippi probably had a better incentive package

About 20 years ago the US was losing a lot of film/TV production work to Canada and other countries because of cost. For example, The X-Files was shot in Vancouver.

So to lure that work back to the US, states started offering incentives, often in the form of tax credits. These incentives come with conditions though. The production usually has to use a high percentage of local crew and talent.

It can be an issue of location too. The novella that The Shawshank Redemption was based on was set in Maine but the movie was shot in Ohio. Why? They needed an abandoned prison to shoot in and that's where they found one. I have a friend that was an extra!

The cost and availability of studio space can be an issue for a film that requires a lot of sets to be built. There's a fairly new studio near Detroit, so they're getting a fair number of productions now that they would not have gotten otherwise. I know OZ the Great and Powerful was filmed there

[trof]

15. Alabama is finally catching on.

Films shot in Mobile, AL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_shot_in_Mobile,_Alabama

[malthaussen]

16. That's actually a bit of a scandal here in PA

Seems the former administration handed out a cool six mil (not much in movie terms, plenty to you or me!) to a production company to film a movie in PA, and then they didn't film it here anyway. Or give back the dough.

-- Mal

[mackerel]

11. Soo many recently The Giver

[Ahpook]

12. In the spirit of Halloween

Bela Lugosi in Dracula was quite a stretch from the original novel. I'm not taking anything away from that movie, though. Its great to watch this time of year. Classic

Another, and certainly beautiful to watch is The Shining. Kubrick took that novel and made it his own. Nicholson is a nut from the start

I wouldn't say any of this would "piss me off" but they did take their own theme?

[shenmue]

13. Smilia's Sense of Snow

The Dark Half.

Also, Logan's Run. Although I still liked the movie.

[malthaussen]

17. A more apt question would be "what doesn't piss you off?"

I dig that movies "based on" books are stand-alone art. Obviously, though, they are written and produced by people with little imagination hoping to cash in on something with a following. I really love it, though, when some author then turns around and writes a book "based on" the movie that was "based on" a book. How silly is that? And yet money is made from it.

-- Mal

[WinkyDink]

18. The David Niven "Casino Royale."

[First Speaker]

19. The Bible...

...the book was a lot better...

[pinboy3niner]

20. West Side Story

There's not a wherefore, an art or a thou in it anywhere, it's on a different continent, all the names have been changed, and it has singing and dancing!1!!

Somebody help me keep coolly cool, boy!