10 Top film yang lebih baik dari novel aslinya
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10. The Searchers
Original Story By: Alan Le May
Ethan Edwards, an ex-Confederate soldier from the Indian Wars, finds
that his family has been massacred and his niece captured by the
Comanches and vows to bring her back and kill everyone of the Indians
who did this to him. He travels for five years in order to find her and
when he does realizes even though she has been found she has become one
of them. The Searchers was ranked #1 on the American Film Institute’s
list of the 10 greatest films in the genre “Western” in June 2008.
Interesting Fact: Lana Wood played young Debbie Edwards and Natalie
Wood, who was Lana’s older sister by eight years, played teenaged Debbie
Edwards.
9. Psycho
Original Story By: Robert Bloch
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has
treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they
cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in
alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer.
Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion
leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. Tired after the
long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and
pulls into The Bates Motel… This is a film that no one will dispute
deserves a place on this list. It is perhaps the greatest horror movie
across all generations.
Interesting Fact: When the cast and crew began work on the first day
they had to raise their right hands and promise not to divulge one word
of the story. Hitchcock also withheld the ending part of the script
from his cast until he needed to shoot it.
8. Jaws
Original Story By: Peter Benchley
A Great White shark decides to make the small beach resort town of Amity
his private feeding grounds. This greatly frustrates the town police
chief who wants to close the beaches to chase the shark away. He is
thwarted in his efforts by the town’s mayor who finally relents when
nothing else seems to work and the chief, a scientist, and an old
fisherman with revenge on his mind take to the sea to kill the beast.
Jaws was a bestselling book for Peter Benchley, but it took the force of
a movie to frighten generations away from the beaches!
Interesting Fact: After the shark was built, it was never tested in the
water, and when it was put in the water at Martha’s Vineyard, it sank
straight to the ocean floor. It took a team of divers to retrieve it.
7. Ben-Hur
Original Story By: Lew Wallace
When Prince Judah Ben-Hur hears that his childhood friend Messala has
been named to command the Roman garrison of Jerusalem, he is thrilled.
He soon finds however that his friend has changed and has become an
arrogant conqueror, full of the grandeur of Rome. When Judah refuses to
divulge the names of Jews who oppose Roman rule, Messala decides to
make an example of him and sends him off as a galley slave. Through
fate and good fortune, Judah survives the galleys and manages to return
to Jerusalem in the hopes of finding his mother and sister, who were
also imprisoned, and to seek revenge against his one-time friend.
Interesting Fact: Initially there were queries over whether William
Wyler was the right director for the job, as he’d never tackled a film
of this scale before. One of the doubters was Wyler himself.
6. Silence of the Lambs
Original Story By: Thomas Harris
Clarice Starling, a young intelligent FBI trainee, has been sent to the
Baltimore state hospital for the criminally insane to interview an
inmate Dr. Hannibal-the cannibal- Lecter. A brilliant renowned
psychiatrist turned infamous psychopathic serial killer. She must match
wits with Lecter -who has the darkest of all minds- and trust him to
give her clues in the search for “Buffalo Bill”. This is, undoubtedly,
one of the greatest psychological thrillers ever put to screen. The
success of this film contributed largely to the success of Harris as a
writer.
Interesting Fact: Anthony Hopkins studied videotapes of serial killers
as part of his research for the film. After noticing that Charles Manson
hardly ever blinked when he spoke, he did the same for Hannibal
Lecter.
5. Gone With The Wind
Original Story By: Margaret Mitchell
The epic tale of a woman’s life during one of the most tumultuous
periods in America’s history. From her young, innocent days on a
feudalistic plantation to the war-torn streets of Atlanta; from her
first love whom she has always desired to three husbands; from the
utmost luxury to absolute starvation and poverty; from her innocence to
her understanding and comprehension of life. This one hit wonder book
by Margaret Mitchell not only worked out brilliantly for her
publishers, it also became the highest-grossing film in the history of
Hollywood, and received a record-breaking number of Academy Awards.
Interesting Fact: The movie’s line “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
was voted as the #1 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
4. The Shawshank Redemption
Original Story By: Stephen King (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, a short story from Different Seasons)
After the murder of his wife, hotshot banker Andrew Dufresne is sent to
Shawshank Prison, where the usual unpleasantness occurs. Over the
years, he retains hope and eventually gains the respect of his fellow
inmates, especially longtime convict “Red” Redding, a black marketeer,
and becomes influential within the prison. Eventually, Andrew achieves
his ends on his own terms. This film has become so popular it now ranks
as the IMDB number 1 film – knocking the Godfather in to the number 2
spot. There is no doubt that the film is excellent, but I do not
believe it deserves the number 1 spot on this list.
Interesting Fact: The mugshots of a young-looking Morgan Freeman that
are attached to his parole papers are actually pictures of Morgan’s
younger son, Alfonso Freeman.
3. The Godfather
Original Story By: Mario Puzo
Vito Corleone is the aging don (head) of the Corleone Mafia Family. His
youngest son Michael has returned from WWII just in time to see the
wedding of Connie Corleone (Michael’s sister) to Carlo Rizzi. All of
Michael’s family is involved with the Mafia, but Michael just wants to
live a normal life. Drug dealer Virgil Sollozzo is looking for Mafia
families to offer him protection in exchange for a profit of the drug
money. Puzo is a good writer, but Coppola is a better director and
consequently this film rocketed Puzo to fame he would never have
achieved alone.
Interesting Fact: During rehearsals, a false horse’s head was used for
the bedroom scene. For the actual shot, a real horse’s head was used.
The head was acquired from a dog-food factory.
2. Blade Runner
Original Story By: Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
In a cyberpunk vision of the future, Man has developed the technology to
create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside
Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a
Blade Runner, a cop who specialises in terminating replicants.
Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when six
replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth.
Interesting Fact: Philip K. Dick claimed that footage of the film was
exactly what he had envisioned when he wrote the book. However, Ridley
Scott, who was notorious for having gotten exactly the visual look he
wanted, claimed to have never read Dick’s source novel “Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep?”
1. Standy By Me
Original Story By: Stephen King (The Body, a short story in the book Different Seasons)
Based on Stephen King’s short story “The Body”, “Stand By Me” tells the
tale of Gordie Lachance, a writer who looks back on his preteen days
when he and three close friends went on their own adventure to find the
body of a kid their age who had gone missing and presumed dead. The
stakes are upped when the bad kids in town are closely tailing – and it
becomes a race to see who’ll be able to recover the body first. That
such a great film can be made from a mere short story says a lot about
Reiner’s excellent directing skills. Both this, and Shawshank Redemption
(also by Stephen King) rate in the IMDB top 250. Considering that
Different Seasons was a rather mediocre book compared to some of King’s
great books (such as The Stand), make these two films clear winners for
this list.
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