Great Books Hollywood took and changed due to PC

[general35]

Great books Hollywood took and changed due to political correctness and ruined.

#1 on my list is Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. One of the great things about Wolfe is his ability to write great characters. The movie changed them so drastically that the movie didnt even make sense and was terrible.

Another choice is a movie on right now. The Sum of all Fears (Tom Clancy). Really...an old Nazi goup wants to regain power and thinks setting off a nuclear device on US soil making it look like the Russians did it; thus causing a global nuclear war which will put them back in power.....what, a middle east terrorist group like in the book was too far fetched?

 

[dallastx]

Will plays work? "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". Original play has strong homosexual undercurrent, grossly underplayed in movie.

 

[Fievel121]

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[Hornin Hong Kong]

i remember there was a john grisham movie where the enemyw as big tobacco and they changed it to firearms.

I actually walked out

 

[Fievel121]

What movie was that?

 

[johnny chimpo]

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[Texanne]

It was Runaway Jury.

 

[PFD]

Speaking of Grisham, the movie version of "A Time to Kill" got kicked in the nuts by PC issues, too.

In the book, Grisham's Carl Lee Hailey was a simple, good man who reacted in a way that many of us would (or would like to) in response to an awful act of violence perpetrated on his daughter.

However, in the book, Sam Jackson's Carl Lee Hailey inexplicably became some sort of philosopher, explaining his response in ways that a Mississippi mill worker never could or would and essentially telling McConaughey's defense attorney Jake Brigance how to win the trial.

Unrealistic and patronizing schlock.

 

[CanaTigers]

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[trueut2003]

In defense of Runaway Jury, the book (which I liked very much) did deal with tobacco and it was changed to guns in the movie. I don't think it was due to PC reasons, it was because from the time the book was written to when the movie came out, the big tobacco settlement took place, so tobacco trials weren't really all that relevent anymore.

The movie on its own is actually not that bad, the book was just better (as is usually the case).

And my vote, of course, would be for Friday Night Lights. Still a good movie, but there is no way they could include all the stuff that was in the book.

 

[RabidLonghorn]

I am legend.

 

[TaylorTRoom]

How about the reverse? In Graham Greene's novella, "The Third Man", Holly Martins gets Anna in the end. The movie's ending was far superior. It's the exception that proves the rule.

 

[Hornin Hong Kong]

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[RomaVicta]

Cat On a Hot Tin Roof was my first thought, too. The Paul Newman/Liz Taylor version is still a movie classic to me, but no doubt it was watered down from the play.