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 Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:07 pm
I'm really interesting in GLBT fiction that is made into movies. There are some that are sucessful, but alot of the time the actual sexual content is completely taken out or the characters are made to appear straight or just 'close friends'.
Examples of this that stand out in my mind are Fried Green Tomatoes, a movie I love but is nothing compared to the book. Thats one of those movies that someone could watch and not realise the characters are in a relationship at all (but then when you find out they are it seems obvious). It really down played the attraction between Ruth and Idgie, in my opinion.
There is also the movie Interview with the Vampire. The movie was okay, but it did a really poor job portraying the relationship between Louis and Lestat, among other things.
I've read the story but have never seen the movie Brokeback mountain. I assume that since it got so much hype for having gay content that it did a good job with it. But I don't see enough movies that isn't about the gay content, but it actually does include it.
Does anyone else know of any books-to-movies? Which were sucessful portraying the homosexual content and what movies weren't? Or maybe even suggestions of books that SHOULD be made into movies or a series?
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:39 pm
I haven't ever seen Fried Green Tomatoes, but that's really a shame from the way you describe what the movie version did to the book. D: However, it does mean that I will most definitely need to pick the book up now.
Brokeback Mountain's short story and movie are pretty much hand-in-hand the same, except for minor differences (at least, that I remember from reading and seeing it a year ago sweatdrop ).
I do agree with the Interview with a Vampire thing, though. However, her books tend to make their relationships very subtle as well too, don't they? Though I haven't read them all, so.. ^^;
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:16 pm
Well, apparently, Geography Club by Brent Hartinger is being made into a movie. And one of his stage plays is being adapted into a screenplay, which involves gay male relationships. Brent told me himself, and both seem to be looking pretty good so far. I can't wait to see either, whenever they're released.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:32 pm
I saw a movie called A Home at the End of the World, which is apparently based on a book. I've never read it, though.
It was ok, but I don't remember being particularly wowed. It was an interesting choice for Colin Farrel, certainly. x3
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:37 am
Wait. I saw Fried Green Tomatoes. There were GLBT themes in it?
... yeah, totally missed that part...
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:41 am
mysterious skin started out as a book. It's pretty good. Powerful.
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:47 pm
A really good and faithful book turned into a movie is A Home At the End of the World. Except the mother character seemed more depressed and almost suicidal in the book as opposed to the movie.
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 8:48 pm
Major agreement with the Fried Green Tomatoes remarks. If you go into it knowing they had a relationship in the book, you see it, otherwise they just look like best friends.
DVD features comment on how the foodfighting scene was like sublimated lovemaking or something. ... Yeah, okay, right. Good movie otherwise, but still disappointing for what they did to the loooove crying
I actually just reread Interview With a Vampire last week, and picked up the DVD since I saw the movie years ago on TV, so I'll have to watch it soon to better compare! In the middle of rereading The Vampire Lestat, so my memory of the remaining books is fuzzy. I'd say she started out more subtle with declarations of love, some hand touching and kissing, but she got much more obvious as she went on. Maybe that reflects moving out of the 70s and 80s and into more accepting times?
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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:14 pm
Beautifully Intended Well, apparently, Geography Club by Brent Hartinger is being made into a movie. And one of his stage plays is being adapted into a screenplay, which involves gay male relationships. Brent told me himself, and both seem to be looking pretty good so far. I can't wait to see either, whenever they're released. OH MY GOD, no way! I'm totally seeing those when they come out. I still need to watch Brokeback Mountain, I just haven't gotten around to it. My sister said that the gay themes were most definitely there, and that it was one of the saddest movies she'd seen....
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:45 pm
A Home At the End of the World by
Michael Cunningham
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