What is the best adaptation of all time?

Satantango. Brilliant novel whose film adaption is almost the carbon copy of the book. Almost in a literal sense, as if the events of the book were happening in real life! That's a major element behind it's length and helped it's cause as a GOAT adaption.

When it's all said and done, the real value of an adaptation comes from a simple check: did it manage to remain faithful to source material and represent the same feeling & quality on the movie screen that the original did on paper?

With Satantango, the answer to both questions is a definite yes.

One flew over the cuckoos nest

>the real value of an adaptation comes from a simple check: did it manage to remain faithful to source material and represent the same feeling & quality on the movie screen that the original did on paper?
absolute pleb opinion

A lot of great adaptations use the source material merely as inspirational material and the film ends up being not only different but ten times better than it's source material. Look at almost any Kubrick film for example.

L'Argent by Bresson

I would say Kubrick's adaptations are mostly A++ grade as well

See, that's the difference: I don't consider these as adaptations (by the strict definition of the term). Kubrick was making HIS movies based on the inspiration from the source materials. The Shining is the perfect example: thematically, it meant totally different for King and for Kubrick. No wonder it got criticised b/c of that.

The Shining ended up as a classic for plenty reasons, but being a faithful adaptation were never one of them. Kubrick works are "based on" or more like "inspired by" pieces instead of adaptations in the word's classic sense - and that's totally fine. So in general, I agree w/ your 2 cents: but I wasn't talking about that above.

Big Trouble in Little China

by fidelity or by quality and fidelity?

the green mile, a interview with the vampire, hp1, silence of the lambs and the red dragon

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Clash of the Titans 1981

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Fuck Dahl

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LotR, one of the rare cases where te movies are actually better than the books