The Book
hey i'm reading the book for my english class and I wanted to see if there was
a movie based on the book too. Everyone said the made in 1995 is nothing like the book. How close is this movie to the book?
Please help me someone!
This probably won't be of much help because of my bias, but if the 1995 SCARLET LETTER is the one with Gary Oldman and Demi Moore...either just keep reading or see the old PBS version with some chemistry between the leads (John Heard and Meg Foster). I remember seeing the newer one in a theatre and being disappointed and annoyed...zero chemistry. As much as I like both Oldman and Moore in other projects - this combination just wasn't happening.
...........Hate is the essence of weakness in the human mind...........
Four years later, hope you enjoyed the book, was one of my fsvorites in high school. This is the 1979 Masterpiece Theater version, it was great, close to the novel, as well as I can remember, and it's now available on DVD at PBS.org.
shareThanks. Yes, I definitely did, although it took me a while to get through the entire thing because I'm really not that fond of reading, which is a lifelong embarrassment. I have a need to understand a word or unfamiliar phrase before it passes, so there was a LOT of looking up to do.
I put the PBS version on my Netflix queue to watch and later bought a copy for some friends who are acquainted with Meg Foster. I also saw John Heard at a SAG picket line during a strike, and his work in THE SCARLET LETTER and THE SOPRANOS were the first things I thought of.
...........Hate is the essence of weakness in the human mind...........
From what i heard, this version is closer to the book. the only good thing about the 1995 movie is gary oldman who was excellent, as usual. but yeah, its not like the book. this was a great TV production and really showed the talent of meg foster and john heard, who i had only seen in those Home Alone movies. he was so young! and the guy who played the chattling, i only knew him as the crazy mail man in Funny Farm! so it was great to see all these people in a classic production.
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