Movie Fight Club: Question 91
We discussed remakes in our last fight and Little Women took the prize. This week perhaps the March girls can win again, depending on the version. But not if the Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, or Jane Austen fans have anything to say about it:
What movie adaptation is the most faithful to the original book?
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Pride and Prejudice — the good one, obviously, with Colin Firth. 😏
Struggling with the "most faithful" part here, since there are many book adaptations I remember loving but not whether they were sufficiently faithful. So I'll just mention a book to movie I'm particularly fond of, "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," which may have given some characters and storylines shorter shrift but benefited so enormously from the performances of Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio as to make up for it.