To Have and Have Not

[chickenfeet]

I read the Hemingway novel today. I don't think I've ever read a novel where the film adaptation bears so little resemblance to the book. Both the book and the film have a boat, a drunk and a character called Harry but then so does Henry V. Beyond that, points of commonality cease entirely. Not least because the film is very good and has Lauren Bacall and the book isn't and doesn't.

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[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

"I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you sall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth; but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both."

[oursin.livejournal.com]

The Thirty-Nine Steps? not that I've ever managed to catch the Hitchcock movie, but by all accounts, its resemblance to what Buchan wrote is fairly tenuous.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Hemmingway gives me a pain.

Bladerunner has, I think, one word (Bladerunner) in common with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I think Hitchcock manages to get "39 Steps" in the right country.