[Borges]

Shortly after the first two Godfather films. Francis Coppola wrote a screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby which was eventually made with Robert Redford into a very dull film.

[re_nortex]

Shortly after the first two Godfather films. Francis Coppola wrote a screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby which was eventually made with Robert Redford into a very dull film.

That's an example of a book that just can't translate to celluloid. Fitzgerald's rich writing and imagination is just too rich for the silver screen, IMHO.

Drifting off topic a bit (but yet somehow related), books that fail to convey well to film of television remind me of radio comic's Fred Allen famous quote:

"Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done."

[yarddog]

I had read a book about Zelda Sayre before seeing the movie “The Great Gatsby” It was clear that Zelda was the character created by Mia Farrow in the image of Zelda. Gatsby’s real girlfriend and that Gatsby had been F Scott Fitzgerald.
The similarities are just too much. Fitzgerald is an army officer at the airfield outside Montgomery Alabama and he meets the most attractive and socially prominent girl in Montgomery. Her Father is chief justice of the Alabama Surpeme court. He falls in love with her but she is above him socially. Yet she seems to love him too.

[nickcarraway]

I’ve never seen that one, but I thought Sam Watterson might be a decent choice to play Nick Carraway.