Because honestly, I could tell you the whole story from the novel and you’d still have nearly the entire limited TV series to enjoy without knowing what’s coming next.Īnd herein lies a mystery: The novel has a gorgeous, meticulously worked-out plot pivoting on the more or less present day, it goes back and forward in time to describe a world overcome by a deadly flu that makes COVID look almost picnic-like.
I’m not going to spoil it for you, though, or not much anyway. Because while the two versions do have more in common than a title, they also differ quite a lot. I thought about this while previewing the HBO Max version of Emily St. Again, though, comparison is pointless, since the book and movie have almost nothing in common. Hemingway fans had every reason to cry foul, but honestly it’s a pretty good movie and even more honestly it’s better than the book, which isn’t by any stretch top-drawer Hemingway. The screenplay was co-written by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner, and as far as I can tell, almost the only thing they took from the novel was its title. The source novel was by Ernest Hemingway.
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My hands-down favorite would be To Have and Have Not, the Howard Hawks film with Humphrey Bogart and introducing Lauren “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve?” Bacall. The world is lousy with movies that take liberties with the books on which they’re based.
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