When Die Hard first exploded onto screens in 1988 no one could have foreseen the impact that film would have on the action genre, and certainly never guess that it would create its own subgenre “Die Hard on a insert other location here” but the biggest game changer was having an “everyman” as the protagonist…
Tag: Book vs Movie
The Land That Time Forgot: Book vs Movie
Dinosaurs’ still roaming the earth today is a fantasy element to be found in stories dating from as far back as 1912s The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the upcoming Jurassic World and our love of those magnificent beasts will certainly keep this genre alive, do it is no surprise that the…
First Blood: From Book to Screen
The story of Green Beret Vietnam veteran John Rambo started way back in 1972 with David Morrell’s successful novel titled First Blood, and then it took ten years for it to make its way to the big screen, but what is fascinating is that though the movie is almost structurally identical to the book, hitting almost…