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Were These Movies Based on Books? #2

Can you guess whether these movies were based on a novel?
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1. Avatar
Original screenplay by James Cameron
Based on a book
Not
2. The Da Vinci Code
Based on the novel by Dan Brown
Based on a book
Not
3. Fight Club
Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Based on a book
Not
4. The Color Purple
Based on the novel by Alice Walker
Based on a book
Not
5. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Original screenplay by Quentin Tarantino
Based on a book
Not
6. Ghostbusters
Original screenplay by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis
Based on a book
Not
7. Dune
Based on the novel by Frank Herbert
Based on a book
Not
8. Thelma & Louise
Original screenplay by Callie Khouri
Based on a book
Not
9. Rocky
Original screenplay by Sylvester Stallone
Based on a book
Not
10. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Original screenplay by Melissa Mathison
Based on a book
Not
11. The Notebook
Based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks
Based on a book
Not
12. The Shining
Based on the novel by Stephen King
Based on a book
Not
13. Gone with the Wind
Based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell
Based on a book
Not
14. Life of Pi
Based on the novel by Yann Martel
Based on a book
Not
15. The Matrix
Original screenplay by the Wachowskis
Based on a book
Not
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15 Comments
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Level 97
Jun 27, 2024
Interesting! Never knew that fight club was based off a book.
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Level 85
Jun 28, 2024
It wasn't. It was based on a book :)
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Level 66
Jun 29, 2024
I only know it is because China censored Fight Club's ending so that a wall of text abruptly ends the movie saying that the police successfully foiled the plot and sent Tyler to the "lunatic asylum". The book's author joked when he found out that the censored ending actually made it closer to the book's ending (where the plot also fails).
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Level 75
Jul 2, 2024
Yann Martell in turn was "inspired" by Moacyr Scliar's "Max e os felinos" (Max and the cats). Those quote marks in inspired cannot be stressed enough, tough.
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Level 61
Jul 16, 2024
"Avatar" was based on the book "FernGully: The Last Rainforest" by Diana Young.
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Level 88
Sep 2, 2024
Lol no
+2
Level 55
Jul 16, 2024
I know most people won't believe me but I am in disbelief that despite my shortcomings of movie-book adaptations, I perfectly scored 15/15.
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Level 67
Jul 16, 2024
Argh I thought this quiz was gonna be tricksier. I guessed that Colour Purple was originally a play but it looks like the quiz is simply "Original or not?".

Would be fun to have a few other mediums here, like how Whiplash was based on a short film.

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Level 60
Jul 16, 2024
I was on the fence with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, because of Helter Skelter. I know the movie is about a bunch of different things, other then the Manson Family but I got suckered into choosing Based on a Book.
+3
Level 83
Jul 16, 2024
I'm a little surprised that the success rate for Gone with the Wind isn't higher. Another sign of age and the rise of new generations, I suppose.
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Level 61
Jul 16, 2024
If you liked this quiz then you should try this one: https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1670711/book-or-movie
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Level 79
Jul 18, 2024
Just missed Color Purple
+1
Level 58
Jul 19, 2024
is the matrix not a loose adaptation of baudrillard's simulacra and simulation?
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Level 31
Jul 20, 2024
Perfect score!
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Level 74
Aug 13, 2024
Knew 11/15 and guessed the rest right, mostly by assuming that in these type of quizzes usually have more or less the same number of questions for each answer.