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Brilliant book, horrible film


How is this possible, the book is genius, they need to remake this film.

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I fully agree with you, I awtched film ysterday, it was horrible. The most important scenes were so badly interpreted....

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It's even more bizarre when you consider that John Fowles wrote not just the novel but the screenplay...

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I thought it was a pretty solid movie.

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