Old Blues Chapter and Verse | The Character Adaptation Tag @OldBluesChapterandVerse | Uploaded February 2020 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
I was tagged in the original by Ryan and Kristen over at Seeking Stories. Their video can be found here:

youtube.com/watch?v=-YxpBEGjYiI&t=5s

Here are the prompts:

1. Who are your two favorite book-to-movie character adaptations?
2. Who are your two least favorite book-to-movie character adaptations?
3. Name a movie character (or two...or three) who most improve upon the book character.

Books and films discussed or mentioned in this video:

- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Remains of the Day (dir: James Ivory)
- Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
- Oscar and Lucinda (dir: Gillian Armstrong)
- Paradise Road (dir: Bruce Beresford)
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- Jude (dir: Michael Winterbottom)
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Jane Eyre (dir: Franco Zeffirelli)
- Children of a Lesser God (dir: Randa Haines)
- The Doctor (dir: Randa Haines)
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Dracula (dir: Tod Browning)
- Bram Stoker's Dracula (dir: Francis Ford Coppola)
- Little Buddha (dir: Bernardo Bertolucci)
- The Matrix (directors: The Wachowski Brothers, as were)
- Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
- Much Ado About Nothing (dir: Kenneth Branagh)
- The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
- The Jane Austen Book Club (dir: Robin Swicord)
- Little Women (dir: Gillian Armstrong)
- McCabe by Edmund Naughton
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (dir: Robert Altman)
- Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
- Whale Rider (dir: Niki Caro)
- Jojo Rabbit (dir: Taika Waititi)