>greatest american novel of all time
>no film adaptation
Greatest american novel of all time
Xavier Wilson
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Aaron Nelson
The Great Gatsby has been adapted several times, old sport.
Juan Turner
Most people only pretend to like Moby dick because of it's reputation as a classic
Connor Moore
Wtf are you talking about?
Grayson Rivera
Justin Lee
Its impossible because everything that takes the novel from "good" to "great" can't really be shown on film without excessive narration perhaps
Sounds like somebody got filtered and is coping hard
Luis Morgan
retarded thread
Angel Campbell
the last moby dick movie was from 1956 when literally nobody was alive
Xavier Cruz
we would have to harm a lot of whales in the making of this picture
Isaiah Robinson
I don’t get why people hate the Gregory Peck version. It’s a fun adventure film and you can tell the people who worked on it, worked their hardest. I haven’t fully read the book (only scratched 20 pgs into it and forgot it) but it seems pretty accurate to the source material. The other two adaptation (one from the 20’s and the other 30’s respectively) and they both have captain ahab as the main character and killing moby.
David Hughes
No good movie has come out in the last like 15 years so movies from 1956 are bound to be pretty kino by comparison.
Landon Russell
That isn't Blood Meridian
Parker Bell
It's great. People didn't think it would actually do justice to Moby Dick, did they?
Jaxon Price
Based fellow connoisseur of fine literature.
Samuel Brown
More of a novella
Jayden Bell
>no adaptation
From hell’s heart I stab at thee
Xavier Parker
>>greatest american novel of all time
Not even close, holy shit.
Dylan Sullivan
it has a great adaptation you fucking retard
Jaxon Clark
Name 5, and no David foster wallace
Alexander James
Nothing in the Anglo sphere (aside from Shakespeare and Keats) comes even close
Hunter Gonzalez
Needs a miniseries adaptation, not a film one
Angel Adams
Suttree
Warlock
Mason and dixon
Drums along the mohawk
Sot-weed factor
Lucas Walker
>cast a black whale
Ethan Lopez
>Suttree
Stopped reading right there, thanks for playing
Adrian Smith
The Leopard's Spots
Wise Blood
The Red Badge of Courage
Ben-Hur
The Robe
Read more, nigga. Like damn.
Josiah Thomas
Villains can still be white. Ishmael should be played by Lakieth Stanfield though
Matthew Sullivan
It's a great book but the writing style is what makes it great. It wouldn't translate to film
Lincoln Fisher
>holy shit not even close
>lists Suttree
Not knocking down Suttree bit you do realize McCarthy's style and philosophy is directly influenced by Moby Dick, right?
Levi Garcia
Unironically got filtered by Moby Dick, tried reading it, some great writing and imagery but jesus a lot of parts just drag on forever.
Justin Barnes
*but
Ryan Thomas
>Read Moby Dick
>Expect Badass Captain Ahab moments
>Get some fag getting gay married to LE NOBLE SAVAGE man
Jayden Foster
>be faggot
>expects self-insert dopamine-rush anime
>gets literature for adults
Everytime
Xavier King
If you skip the digressions on whaling then it becomes a much smaller book. You shouldn't skip them, because they're awesome, but if you are getting bogged down by the sheer amount of writing then skipping those chapters is a viable way to focus on the meat of the story.
Caleb Ramirez
>literature for adults
>Le noble savage
>le unitarian universalism
>Le wikipedia whaling facts
Thomas Rogers
>greatest american novel of all time
>greatest musical adaptation
Dylan Bailey
But we already got one of the greatest albums of all time
Matthew Hernandez
i love moby dick but it's 1/5 actual story and 4/5 the history of whaling, doesn't work well for film
Carson Ward
The Canadian version with William Hurt as Ahab was pretty good although it was a 40 to 50% rewrite.
The book is a good, weird read. I don't think a movie would work for other audiences because there is barely an antagonist and the narrator becomes a phantom observer for the middle third, and all kinds of shit like that.
Luke Rivera
>gives up and starts shitposting
>didnt even refute my accusation
Kek, how pathetic of an attention starved faggot do you have to be to bitch about a classic piece of literature and pretend you're better than it? It could only happen with Any Forumsutists.