[Myura Shuro]

I was wondering if there was a certain film, based on a book, that's good in it's own right but isn't a good representation of the book? maybe it can just totally change a lot of key elements, or faithfully translates most of the story but misses out a key and extremely filmworthy detail in favour of a less important moment?

I haven't seen all of Alfred Hithcock's Rebecca but I know by necessity it had to change a really important plot detail, so I'm guessing the final film results in an example of this. The 1954 Animal Farm is, for me, a major exmaple because the changed ending conflicts with the source material's ultimate purpose. A milder example is Everything Is Illuminated, it's generally quite faithful to the book but because of length restrictions, it removes huge subplots that would really lend themselves to the screen, it might be better suited to TV like catch 22 eventually proved to be

[joachimlee]

Apparently this is true for the shining haha

[Jay Henderson]

Manhunter - pretty solid movie but cuts some depth and scenes from the book. And yeah, The Shining.

[kacam]

Two i can think of are starship troopers and total recall