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Watership Down – remember it? It was a cartoon about bunnies on a common in England.
Fiver has a weird dream; Hazel gets killed by the brown rabbits; and Art Garfunkel sang Bright Eyes while we wept buckets.
The Harry Potters – you must have seen them? Did you see the last one where Hermoine finally got control of her hair? No? In the beginning there were books and we all used our imagination to live the vision of a good writer who took us on a magical journey exercising our imaginations.
Last week, I saw the film ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’. My verdict? It was good but not as good as the book.
That got me thinking: as a book lover, do I consider many films ‘as good as the book’? And when I do, what’s made it work?
In the spirit of one of my favourites, here are five of my top book-to-film adaptations:
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