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...or story, play, etc. When literary works are adapted for the screen, the names are sometimes changed, often drastically. Which of the following changes do you find the most striking?
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Based on: "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss
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About Last Night (1986)
Based on: "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" by David Mamet
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American Gangster (2007)
Based on: "The Return of Superfly" by Mark Jacobson
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Blade Runner (1982)
Based on: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Phillip K. Dick
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Blow-Up (1966)
Based on: "Las babas del diablo" (The Devil's Drool) by Julio Cortázar
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Boom! (1968)
Based on: "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" by Tennessee Williams
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Charly (1968)
Based on: "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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Die Hard (1988)
Based on: "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp
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Goodfellas (1990)
Based on: "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi
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Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Based on "Low Men In Yellow Coats" by Stephen King
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Jacknife (1989)
Based on: "Strange Snow" by Stephen Metcalfe
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John Carter (2012)
Based on: "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Lawless (2012)
Based on: "The Wettest County in the World" by Matt Bondurant
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Mean Girls (2004)
Based on: "Queen Bees and Wannabes" by Rosalind Wiseman
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Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
Based on: "Waltz into Darkness" by Cornell Woolrich
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Monte Carlo (2011)
Based on: "Headhunters" by Jules Bass
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Based on: "Opera Hat" by Clarence Budington Kelland
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The Music Never Stopped (2011)
Based on: "The Last Hippie" by Dr. Oliver Sacks
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October Sky (1999)
Based on: "Rocket Boys," which is an anagram of "October Sky," by Homer Hickam
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Based on: "The Hoods" by Harry Grey
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Only When I Laugh (1981)
Based on: "The Gingerbread Lady" by Neil Simon
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Out of the Past (1947)
Based on: "Build My Gallows High" by Daniel Mainwaring
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The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)
Based on: "The Age of Grief" by Jane Smiley
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Shattered (1991)
Based on: "The Plastic Nightmare" by Richard Neely
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A Sinful Life (1989)
Based on: "Just Like the Pom Pom Girls," presented by the Groundlings comedy troupe
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Smoke Signals (1998)
Based on: "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" by Sherman Alexie
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Stalker (1979)
Based on: "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
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Stand by Me (1986)
Based on: "The Body" by Stephen King
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Steel Toes (2006)
Based on: "Cherry Docs" by David Gow
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Straw Dogs (1971)
Based on: "The Siege of Trencher's Farm" by Gordon M. Williams
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Summer Camp Nightmare (1986)
Based on: "The Butterfly Revolution" by William Butler
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The 13th Warrior (1999)
Based on: "Eaters of the Dead" by Michael Crichton
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Total Recall (1990)
Based on: "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Phillip K. Dick
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Twister (1989)
Based on: "OH!" by Mary Robison
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Village of the Damned (1960)
Based on: "The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham
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