Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.
The rules are simple:
- Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
- Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
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- Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.
This week’s topic is Movies/TV Shows That Would Have Made Amazing Books, a topic suggested by Sabrina at Notes From a Paper Plane Nomad. It’s a neat twist on the topic ‘books that have been made into films’ but, not for the first time recently, it had me stumped, not least because I don’t watch that much TV or many films. So my list is made up of some of my favourite film adaptations of books. You’ll note that a lot of these are older versions – I’m not a great fan of remakes!
- The Cruel Sea (1953) based on the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat
- Jane Eyre (1943) based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë
- Rebecca (1940) based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier
- The Remains of the Day (1993) based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Scrooge (1951) based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations (1946) based on the novel by Charles Dickens
- Carol (2015) based on The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) based on the novel by Harper Lee
- The Man Who Never Was (1956) based on the book by Ewen Montagu
- Ice Cold in Alex (1958) based on the novel by Christopher Landon
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