Here's a list of the movies for those who don't want to watch the entire 9 minutes:

[spoiler]
10. identity
9. one flew over the cuckoo's nest
8. no country for old men
7. saw
6. rosemary's baby
5. the silence of the lambs
4. primal fear
3. the empire strikes back
2. se7en
1. the usual suspects
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>> ^iaui:

It really sounds like she's humming the tune along with the saw, but I don't really know what a saw sounds like so perhaps those overtones are all coming from it... I wish there was a better recording. The mic is clearly peaking each time she bows the saw.
But totally awesome, nonetheless.


The musical saw has been a staple for all sorts of eerie music throughout the years. For instance, the music in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Chances are pretty high that you know the sound, you just didn't realize it. Sort like how Dr. Pepper is prune flavored -- most people have tasted carbonated prune juice, they just didn't know it.

In reply to this comment by MrFisk:
*quality

That's strange! I was going through my vids working from the first one backwards yesterday and this was one of the ones I had to fix... good job too, it's got a whole bunch of extra votes. Thanks sugar

Jon is so much more polite than I could make myself be... Rand is one of those that has taken (or created) a position so extreme that in order for her philosophy to have any chance of working, the very nature of humanity would have to be changed. Exactly like Karl Marx, except that she apparently took that extremist position intentionally, even -after- seeing the results when such ideologies are applied to the real world.

She was, by any measure I can agree with, a loon (not to mention a twisted, nasty old biddy). That said, Francisco d'Anconia's money speech in "Atlas Shrugged" is an amazing piece of writing, and certainly a philosophical treatise worth thinking about. I've read "Atlas Shrugged" many times through my life (it's one of my favorite books), but I long ago realized that it just isn't an appropriate philosophy to use in defining how to live a life. I would rather live my life by "Lord of the Rings" or "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"...if I had to choose a book for that purpose.

haha, brilliant!

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Oh man tell me about it, pure genius the both of them! Watch the full clip here babe, with his talk before and the judges afterwards. Absolutely hilarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l41Jf7L3tc

In reply to this comment by berticus:
You are most welcome. Oh god, that clip of Robert Webb dancing flashdance nearly KILLED me. He and David Mitchell should really somehow produce offspring.

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Thank you darling!!!!!!!!

In reply to this comment by berticus:
*promote !!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh man tell me about it, pure genius the both of them! Watch the full clip here babe, with his talk before and the judges afterwards. Absolutely hilarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l41Jf7L3tc

In reply to this comment by berticus:
You are most welcome. Oh god, that clip of Robert Webb dancing flashdance nearly KILLED me. He and David Mitchell should really somehow produce offspring.

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Thank you darling!!!!!!!!

In reply to this comment by berticus:
*promote !!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you darling!!!!!!!!

In reply to this comment by berticus:
*promote !!!!!!!!!!!!

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Dune - Frank Herbert
Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
Live from Golgotha - Gore Vidal
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller


Those are 10 off the top of my head, in no particular order. Some I consider favorites, others made a strong enough impression that they always come to mind when someone asks a question like this.

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also, *books

it's an adaptation of "Wiseguy" by nicholas pileggi, about the real life of henry hill.

>> ^Hive13:
This isn't how it was supposed to end AT ALL...

I didn't mean to say that this clip shows how the story ended, but that it highlights a main theme of the original story, which was then lost when the scene was removed from the film adaptation (where this scene would have appeared at the end). But alas, your suspicions are correct--I haven't actually read the original story. Thanks for the recommendation (Lithic too), I'll try to check it out.

It pretty much goes without saying that movie adaptations are almost always weak compared to the originals. Even one of my favorites, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", is a movie that I like basically as much as the book, but still does not replace the book. The book, for example, is told from the point of view of the mute Indian--a pretty central concept that the movie dispenses of entirely.

Anybody else have a favorite screen adaptation? (poor adaptions are simply too numerous to name...)

Saddest thing I ever did see. Reminds me of One Flew over the Cookoo's nest, when (spoiler) jack nicholson gets lobotomized.

Yeah, good call on Wiseguys. I think the only thing they left out was Henry Hills circumcision.

In reply to this comment by my15minutes:
hmm... "best book to movie adaptation"

as in, overall quality of the source text and/or adapted film?
degree to which they were faithful to the source material?
that's often just as difficult. like crunching Hamlet down to an hour and a half.

Get Shorty was an excellent adaptation. elmore leonard has a snappy paperback style that plays well onscreen. especially when it's that well-cast, shot, and edited (as was again true for Out of Sight and Jackie Brown).

i'd read 'Wiseguy' long before Goodfellas was made, and found it a remarkably good adaptation even for scorcese. it's all in there. right down to how karen hill used to hold her thumb and forefinger apart to indicate how thick a stack of hundreds she wanted to go shopping with.

A Clockwork Orange was better, I think. The Godfather movie is superior to the book. Lord of Rings by far. Let's see, Lolita, by Kubrick.

In reply to this comment by theaceofclubz:
Like the song. Love the Movie. Did I mention that the book is awesomely phenomenal? Also, Ken Kesey is just the shit in general. IMHO this is the best book to movie adaptation ever. If someone else has a better alternative, I am open to examine.