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   On Monday, May 23, 2011 at 11:59:29 AM UTC-10, Dave in Toronto wrote:   
   > Some writers just take the money and run, if the movie turns out to be   
   > a lot different from their book they just shrug their shoulders and   
   > say something like "Thats Hollywood" but some writers get flaming mad   
   > at any changes. here's a few movies where the writers didn't like   
   > what they saw on screen.   
   > The Set-up.   
   > This was based on a long narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March.   
   > March was mad because the boxer in his poem was black with the odd   
   > name of Pansy Jones. Not sure whether his first name was a nickname   
   > because he was a homosexual (Pansy had the same slang meaning in the   
   > late twenties when the poem was written as it does now) or whether it   
   > was his real name, anyway it was important to March that the boxer be   
   > black. When Wyler heard of March's objection he said he had that   
   > there was no black actor around who would fit the bill. Sounds like a   
   > cop-out to me. I can think of one _Canada Lee_ he played John   
   > Garfields sparring partner in _Body and Soul_ and was in Hitchcock's   
   > _Lifeboat_.   
   > Here are the opening lines to the poem.   
   > Pansy had the stuff, but his skin was brown:   
   > And he never got a chance at the middleweight crown.   
   >   
   > The Quiet American (First American version)   
   > Graham was hopping mad at this and I can't say I blame him It   
   > completely reversed his viewpoint. He was so angry that at the time   
   > of his death he was negotiating with a French movie to make another   
   > version to set the record straight.   
   > Night and the Cty   
   > When Gerald Kersh read the screen treatment of his novel he started to   
   > boast that he must be the highest paid writer in the world as he had   
   > received $40,000 dollars for the film rights of the novel and they had   
   > only used the title   
   > which meant he was getting $10.000 a word. He also sent the script   
   > back to 20th Century Fox, suggesting that they re- print it on flimsy   
   > paper, punch a hole in the top left corner then hang it on a hook   
   > close to a toilet.   
   >   
   > Captain From Castile   
   > Samuel Shellabager was so angry when he saw the movie version of his   
   > novel that he sued Twentieth Century Fox because they had only used   
   > the first third of the book. Not quiet sure what the result of his   
   > legal action was but I believe he did manage to get the film's release   
   > delayed.   
   > Dave M   
      
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