![]() ![]() This can be due to a number of factors, most usually the time constraint of motion pictures themselves. ![]() ![]() Seldom, however, do motion pictures live up to their source material, let alone surpass or even stand on their own. I myself love both the movie version and the original novel despite them being very, very different beasts. But lovers of the film won’t necessarily know that and might find the original novel disappointing because of it. Those who fell in love with the movie might be a little taken aback by the novel, wondering where the Domed City went or what happened to Carousel, renewal…and what about Old Man and his cats?! None of the foregoing, of course, exist in the novel. The result is that the movie retains a few names and the core concept on the novel, but little else. ![]() While the MGM movie is incredibly fun and a very good movie - despite certain aspects not aging well - it bears little resemblance to the book, which is far more epic in scale. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson’s Logan’s Run to read the classic novel, and they might be utterly disappointed. Ask people who don’t read voraciously (or even regularly), and you might get a very different answer.Īsk someone who loves the MGM film adaptation of William F. It’s a question almost as old as “what came first, the chicken or the egg?” The former query, however, is one with an almost universal answer. ![]()
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