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This spot was created to celebrate book-to-tv/film-screen adaptations. True, there is no way that a live version will ever live up to our imagination. And yes, there are hundreds of examples of how this formula can go wrong. But there are also hundreds of examples of how the formula can go right and astonish us with the magic of cinema, yet all too often these examples are forgotten -- and so this spot is to remind ourselves of both the good and the bad, and to discuss either.

A common criticism of book-to-screen adaptations nowadays is that filmmakers are seemingly relying too often on literature...

1. Gulliver's Travels from 1939 made 의해 the Max Fleischer studio. Based on the novel 의해 Jonathan Swift, this film is my 상단, 맨 위로 가장 좋아하는 out of the two films the Fleischer brothers had ever made


2. Bambi from 1942 made 의해 the Walt 디즈니 Studio and based on the book 의해 Felix Salten. Now I had wanted to read the original book the movie is based on, so I'd ordered it online.


3. Cinderella. I know fairy-tales are part of literature and Charles Perrault's story of Cinderella is one of my 가장 좋아하는 fairy-tales; it's another 가장 좋아하는 literary film from Disney


4. Alice in Wonderland from...