rec.arts.movies.past-films

In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful Howard Brazee
declared:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:27:27 -0700, Sean O'Hara wrote
> (in article <61n012F1umji4U1@>):
>
>>> In some sense the BEST case for a faithful adaptation of an author's
>>> book to the movie was The Princess Bride.
>> "The Princess Bride" completely changed the tone of the story. While
>> Goldman himself made those changes, the end result is still not
>> faithful to the book.
>
> I agree with the first poster that it was one of the most faithful
> adaptations in moviedom.
>

Changing the framing story so it's a heartwarming tale a grandfather
tells his sick grandson, instead of the bitter story of William
Goldman searching for a copy for his son and being disappointed that
S. Morganstern's novel is longwinded and overly philosophical, and
giving the film a straight-out Hollywood ending instead of the
"Well, the version my father told me they escaped and lived happily
ever after, but Morganstern ended on a bleak note that suggested
they were all going to die, so I'll leave it up to you to decide
which one you prefer" -- these are major alterations.

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