Top 50 : 最佳的小說改編電影

 50 best book-inspired films , selected by " This is London"

and, These hearts are rated by S.

Very personal! ( no , ...no see )

 The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
       Goodfellas - Nicholas Pileggi
The Vanishing - Tim Krabbe
Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
 Remains Of The Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
 Close Range (incl Brokeback Mountain) - Annie Proulx
Empire Of The Sun - JG Ballard
      Schindler's Ark (filmed as Schindler's List) - Thomas Keneally
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - John le Carré
 Different Seasons (Shawshank Redemption) - Stephen King
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Jaws - Peter Benchley
 Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (filmed as Blade Runner) - Philip K Dick
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
The Hound Of The Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
Heart Of Darkness (filmed as Apocalypse Now) - Joseph Conrad
       Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
       Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
 Les Liaisons Dangereuses (filmed as Dangerous Liaisons) - Choderlos de Laclos
1984 - George Orwell
             Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
A Kestrel For A Knave (filmed as Kes) - Barry Hines
Breakfast At Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
Goldfinger - Ian Fleming
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Day Of The Triffids - John Wyndham
The Outsiders - S E Hinton
The Railway Children - E Nesbit
Watership Down - Richard Adams
     Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
     Orlando - Virginia Woolf
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
         Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
  Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
  The French Lieutenant's Woman -John Fowles
LA Confidential - James Ellroy
Godfather - Mario Puzo
  The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Sin City - Frank Miller
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Devil In A Blue Dress - Walter Mosley

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雖然不在榜上,但是,S心中,小說改編的好電影還有:

時時刻刻,( The Hours ),…甚至比原著好看。

贖罪,( The Atonemen ) ,

不存在的女兒, (The Memory Keeper's Daughter ) ,…甚至比原著好看。

為愛朗讀,( The Reader )

當然,還有 色‧戒 ( Lust, Caution),有口皆碑,比原著火...辣,火...辣得多。