Book vs. Film: EMMA vs. CLUELESS

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ILX has numerous Jane Austen threads. Clueless placed at #49 on the comedy films poll. Which do you prefer?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Film	10
Book	5

― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Monday, 2 December 2013 05:01 (ten years ago) link

Previously on Book vs. Film:

Book vs. Film: DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP vs. BLADE RUNNER
Book vs. Film: HEART OF DARKNESS vs. APOCALYPSE NOW

― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Monday, 2 December 2013 05:06 (ten years ago) link

er, rather...

Book vs. Film: HEART OF DARKNESS vs. APOCALYPSE NOW

― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Monday, 2 December 2013 05:09 (ten years ago) link

easiest one yet

FILM

― zanarkand bozo (abanana), Monday, 2 December 2013 05:15 (ten years ago) link

book

― balls, Monday, 2 December 2013 05:33 (ten years ago) link

Read Emma. Watched Clueless. Enjoyed both. They never really seemed to me to have anything in common, but then neither did Homer's Odyssey and Joyce's Ulysses, in spite of all claims to the contrary.

― Aimless, Monday, 2 December 2013 05:40 (ten years ago) link

The fresher that Emma is in your mind when you watch Clueless (or vice versa, I suppose), the more striking some of the similarities are.

― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Monday, 2 December 2013 05:58 (ten years ago) link

Bump. No one wants to debate Austen vs. Silverstone?!

― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link

That would boil down to "writing fiction" compared to "acting a role". A film is almost never reducable to the work of a single person and a novel almost invariably is. The debate would be more Austen vs. Silverstone & the writer(s), director, editor(s), actors, set designers, costume designers, makeup artists, music director, etc.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link

yes, Austen vs. Silverstone is glib, and misrepresentative (it's really Austen vs. Heckerling), but I was just trying to generate interest (unsuccessfully, it appears).

― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 8 December 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link

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