Day 19 – Favourite book turned into a movieAgain, I couldn't pick an out and out favourite there are too many. I love the old b&w Pride & Prejudice with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson (I didn't like the Keira Knightley version,) the old b&w Rebecca, again with Larry and Joan Fontaine. I love Breakfast at Tiffany's with Audrey Hepburn but didn't like the book so perhaps that doesn't count (ditto Bridget Jones.) Lord of the Rings .. I loved both the three books and the three movies. I Capture the Castle with Romola Garai, Sense & Sensibility with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslett, To Kill a Mockingbird with Gregory Peck, The animated Coraline, The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe with Tilda Swinton and James McAvoy and nearly every version known to man of A Christmas Carol. I've got an especially soft spot for the Harry Potter movies, the books are far superior to the films but the films are still magical .. and I love the cast.
If we can count TV adaptations as movies then there are loads more .. Love in a Cold Climate with Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Rosamunde Pike, Celia Imrie and Alan Bates, Pride & Prejudice with the gorgeous Colin Firth and the equally gorgeous Jennifer Ehle, Wives & Daughters with Keeley Hawes and Justine Waddell, almost all Dickens adaptations especially Martin Chuzzlewitt (Tom Wilkinson, Julia Sawalha and Paul Schofield,) Our Mutual Friend (Steven Mackintosh, Anna Friel, Keeley Hawes, Paul McGann & David Morrisey,) Bleak House (Anna Maxwell Martin, Carey Mulligan, Gillian Anderson & Johnny Vegas) & Little Dorrit (Claire Foy, Tom Courtenay, Russell Tovey & Matthew Macfadyen.)& Poppy Shakespeare (Anna Maxwell Martin & Naomie Harris.)
& Jane Eyre (Ruth Watson)
& Cranford (Judy Dench & Dame Eileen Atkins)
& Sense & Sensibility (Hattie Morohan)
and practically all BBC costume drama's
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