"But the book was better!"

[heidit at netbox.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rachel Bray" <bray.262 at o...> wrote:
> But, then there are books that should have NEVER been made into 
> a movie, or at least into the movie version that was produced.  
> And the movie version of Less Than Zero 
> was REALLY bad.  But I know people who loved both of them AND 
> had read the original book. So.....opinions, opinions, opinions....

Funny you should mention Less Than Zero - I actually got to interview 
Bret Easton Ellis the week before the film came out - he was 
promoting Rules of Attraction (a semi-sequel to that, which contained 
the first book appearance of Patrick Bateman of American Psycho) here 
at the Miami Book Fair. And I hadn't seen the film yet, which was 
coming out a week later, but asked him about it and he complained a 
lot about the producers' decision to kill off Julian (the Robert 
Downey character) because they thought they couldn't show a drug user 
living until the final credits, even though the life he was living in 
the books (homeless prostitute) was not exactly making him a poster 
child for coccaine, and he didn't like the fact that they'd given 
Clay his last name (or was it his middle name) but he didn't mind the 
changes in setting or even some of the dialogue, because it was 
necessary to translate the book into a movie. Of course, being a 
hollywood kid, and I think only 24 at that point, his perspective on 
the book to movie thing might be a little different than an older 
author who existed outside the world of Los Angeles