And now for something light

[rhu]

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.

Comments

[rwl.livejournal.com]

Try these:
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Fail Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler

Good movies were made from both.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I don't know On the Beach so I'll add that to the list of things to read and watch.

I greatly admire both the novel and film of Fail Safe but I don't see how it's SF (any more than the original Manchurian Candidate, which was discussed above). The preface to Fail Safe explicitly states, if I recall correctly, that all the elements of the story were in existence at the time the novel was written, and it was only the specific and horrific sequence of failures that was fictional.