Movies you'd like to see remade

[LinuxGal]

Like everything else, adaptions vary. I prefer a series for the harder material, but things like Harry Potter have been adapted effectively. Nothing is going to be perfect but sweeping denial isn't very perfect either.

I think novelists can be influenced by the contemporary film medium in how they conceive of scenes and descriptions, and, without having film adaptation explicit in mind when they wrote, they construct their novel in a more film like way,  with more emphasis on external observation, more formulaic or stylized depiction of inner mental pictures and deeper psychological depth, so as to make their novels more film like in the first place.    in my opinion, without casting aspersions on their literary qualities, harry potter series of novels are more film like to start with.

Here is the climactic battle of Dune, as written by Frank Herbert:

All this was as a frame for the target of the Emperor's pointing hand. Out of the sand haze came an orderly mass of flashing shapes -- great rising curves with crystal spokes that resolved into the gaping mouths of sandworms, a massed wall of them, each with troops of Fremen riding to the attack. They came in a hissing wedge, robes whipping in the wind as they cut through the melee on the plain.

Onward toward the Emperor's hutment they came while the House Sardaukar stood awed for the first time in their history by an onslaught their minds found difficult to accept.

But the figures leaping from the worm backs were men, and the blades flashing in that ominous yellow light were a thing the Sardaukar had been trained to face. They threw themselves into combat. And it was man to man on the plain of Arrakeen while a picked Sardaukar bodyguard pressed the Emperor back into the ship, sealed the door on him, and prepared to die at that door as part of his shield.

Remember that when you're a half hour into the same battle in the film version.