And now for something light

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OK, let's get a good discussion going here. :-)

The other night, introverte and I were discussing film adapations of science fiction stories that originally appeared in print. We were unable to come up with a single example of a story that meets all these criteria:

• Science fiction (not fantasy) (excluding, for example, The Lord of the Rings and The Wizard of Oz)
• First appeared in print (excluding, for example, 2001: A Space Odyssey)
• Movie adaptation remains essentially faithful to the print story (excluding, for example, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, I, Robot, etc.)
• Both the original print story and the movie adaptation are generally accepted as great (excluding, for example, well, most others).

The closest I could come up with was Farenheit 451 but I'm not sure the movie really qualifies as great. But I figure that if there exists a true example, you, gentle readers, will let me know.

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While I have not read Jurrasic Park, I do remember an interview with a famous personage who was appearing in the film, bemoaning how his character within the film, as opposed to the original story, lives through the piece. He responded to a request for comments with something along the lines of "I was denied a death scene, but granted a sequal.'

I would say this would impact faithfulness to the book . . .

Oh yeah, and the ending is, as a result, completely different. The book has a number of humoungous explosions that apparently were filmed, but not used . . . I remember also some complaints from ecologically minded people and groups as the unused scenes were apparently filmed for real, and a quite a bit of native flora and fauna died as a result.