Snowflake Challenge 2024 #10

[autodach]

Challenge #10

Five Things! The five things are totally up to you. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I decided to make a list of adaptations which I actually like better than the original. This is a rare thing, I am that annoying the book was better kind of person XD. But not always!

Here we go

• Cdrama Word of Honour/山河令, based on the novel Tianya ke by Priest. I wasn’t really into the novel, but the drama is great.

• LEGO Batman movie, based on DC comics, though inspiration was taken from multiple sources. This is unironically the best version of batman, especially in the German dub.

• The Jungle Book (1967 animation), based on Rudyard Kipling’s book of the same name. An elemental part of my childhood. If you noticed my King Louie icon, you probably guessed this :D

• Drei Männer im Schnee/Three men in the snow (1995 movie), based on Erich Kästner’s novel of the same name. The book is good, don’t get me wrong - but this movie is an iconic classic for a reason. Rewatching during winter holiday season is mandatory!

• The Muppet Christmas Carol, based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Pretty much uncontested as the best version of this particular story, and rightfully so.

Comments

[turps]

Such a good list!

Pretty much uncontested as the best version of this particular story, and rightfully so.

That really can't be denied!

[brumeier]

Muppet Christmas Carol for the win! I will watch any version of A Christmas Carol at least once, and some have been really, horrifically terrible, but the Muppets are defs number one. The songs! The humor!

Best runners up are the version with George C. Scott and Patrick Stewart.

[autodach]

Oh yes, the Patrick Stewart one is great!
And losing to the Muppets is no shame at all ;D

[brumeier]

Absolutely!

[sunshine304]

I've never watched the LEGO Batman movbie because I wasn't super into the first LEGO movie. Everyone was saying how awesome it was and I was like, "It was okay?" XD But perhaps I should give it a try since Batman was the best part of that movie... XD

Uhh with Jungle Book you mean the old movie from the 60s right? Because I can't remember an animated one from the 90s. ;D

Muppet Christmas Carol is awesome!

[autodach]

I've never watched the LEGO Batman movbie because I wasn't super into the first LEGO movie. Everyone was saying how awesome it was and I was like, "It was okay?" XD But perhaps I should give it a try since Batman was the best part of that movie... XD

It’s pretty fun - essentially the batman bits from the LEGO movie stretched to a whole movie :D
I also really like the slightly different take on the joker.


Uhh with Jungle Book you mean the old movie from the 60s right? Because I can't remember an animated one from the 90s. ;D

Yes I mistyped. 🙈 It should be 1967 of course. Thanks for catching that!

[dhamphir]

The 1967 animated Jungle Book will always be one of my all-time favorite movies, for several reasons. And yes, it's the absolute best version of the story. The newer adaptations are no where near the quality of that movie either!! :D

[autodach]

It’s glorious :D
Oh, don’t get me started on the other adaptations…the live action stuff, oh no.

[dhamphir]

Tell me about it!

I do give new movies a chance... but I always end up disappointed.

[trobadora]

Cdrama Word of Honour/山河令, based on the novel Tianya ke by Priest. I wasn’t really into the novel, but the drama is great.

I love both, but they're pretty different, I totally see how one might appeal when the other wouldn't!

(I miss the original fannish enthusiasm SHL engendered ... it seems to have entirely vanished now, alas.)

[autodach]

I miss the original fannish enthusiasm SHL engendered ... it seems to have entirely vanished now, alas.
Me too. We had a great fandom going for all of 30 seconds it feels :(

[trobadora]

Right? It's such a shame.

[switchbladeeyes]

I am with you on Muppet Christmas Carol!

Love the idea of this list. One adaptation that I like better than the books was TV adaptation of "The Magicians." I read two of the books, but didn't read the third because the characters were just too insufferably pretentious. I thought the show made them way more interesting.

[silveradept]

The Muppet Christmas Carol is a fantastic and wonderful adaptation of the source, and it manages to be both hysterical and scary by the time it is done.