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Après un sondage auprès de ses lecteurs, le Guardian publiait aujourd'hui sa liste des 50 meilleures adaptations de tous les temps, que voici, que voilà:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird de Robert Mulligan (1962)
Adapted from Harper Lee's 1960 novel

2 .One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest de Milos Forman (1975)
Adapted from the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey
3. Blade Runner de Ridley Scott (1982)
Adapted from the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
4. The Godfather de Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
Adapted by Mario Puzo from his 1969 novel
5. The Remains of the Day de James Ivory (1993)
Adapted from the 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Kes de Ken Loach (1969)
Adapted from the 1968 novel A Kestrel For a Knave by Barry Hines
7. Apocalypse Now de Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
Adapted from the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
8 .The Shawshank Redemption de Frank Darabont (1994)
Adapted from the 1982 short story Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
9. LA Confidential de Curtis Hanson (1997)
Adapted from the 1990 novel by James Ellroy
10. Brokeback Mountain d’Ang Lee (2005)
Adapted from the 1997 short story by E Annie Proulx
11. A Clockwork Orange de Stanley Kubrick (1971)
Adapted from the 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess
12. Doctor Zhivago de David Lean (1965)
Adapted from the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak
13. The Maltese Falcon de John Huston (1941)
Adapted from the 1930 novel by Dashiell Hammett
14. Fight Club de David Fincher (1999)
Adapted from the 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk
15. The English Patient d’Anthony Minghella (1996)
Adapted from the 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje
16. Brighton Rock de John Boulting (1947)
Adapted from the 1938 novel by Graham Greene
17. Trainspotting de Danny Boyle (1996)
Adapted from the 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh
18. Rebecca d’Alfred Hitchcock (1940)
Adapted from the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier
19. Oliver Twist de David Lean (1948)
Adapted from the 1838 novel by Charles Dickens
20. Schindler's List de Steven Spielberg (1993)
Adapted from the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
21. The Railway Children de Lionel Jeffries (1970)
adapted from E Nesbit
22. Breakfast at Tiffany's de Blake Edwards (1961)
adapted from Truman Capote
23. Dangerous Liaisons de Stephen Frears (1988)
adapted from Choderlos de Laclos
24 Orlando de Sally Potter (1992)
adapted from Virginia Woolf
25 Empire of the Sun de Steven Spielberg (1987)
adapted from JG Ballard
26 Goodfellas de Martin Scorsese (1990)
adapted from Nicholas Pileggi
27. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie de Ronald Neame (1969)
adapted from Muriel Spark
28. The Talented Mr Ripley d’Anthony Minghella (1999)
adapted from Patricia Highsmith
29. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold de Martin Ritt (1965)
adapted from John le Carré
30. Lord of the Flies de Peter Brook (1963)
adapted from William Golding
31. Pride and Prejudice de Joe Wright (2005)
adapted from Jane Austen
32. Sin City de Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino (2005)
adapted from Frank Miller
33. The Vanishing de George Sluizer (1993)
adapted from Tim Krabbé
34. Jaws de Steven Spielberg (1975)
adapted from Peter Benchley
35. Watership Down de Martin Rosen (1978)
adapted from Richard Adams
36. Nineteen Eighty-Four de Michael Radford (1984)
adapted from George Orwell
37. The French Lieutenant's Woman de Karel Reisz (1981)
adapted from John Fowles
38. Catch-22 de Mike Nichols (1970)
adapted from Joseph Heller
39. Lolita de Stanley Kubrick (1962)
adapted from Vladimir Nabokov
40. Tess de Roman Polanski (1979)
adapted from Thomas Hardy
41. Get Shorty de Barry Sonnenfeld (1995)
adapted from Elmore Leonard
42. The Jungle Book de Wolfgang Reitherman (1967)
adapted from Rudyard Kipling
43. Alice de Jan Svankmajer (1988)
adapted from Lewis Carroll
44. American Psycho de Mary Harron (2000)
adapted from Bret Easton Ellis
45. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory de Tim Burton (2005)
adapted from Roald Dahl
46. Devil in a Blue Dress de Carl Franklin (1995)
adapted from Walter Mosley
47. Goldfinger de Guy Hamilton (1964)
adapted from Ian Fleming
48. The Day of the Triffids de Steve Sekely (1962)
adapted from John Wyndham
49. The Hound of the Baskervilles de Sidney Lanfield (1939)
adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle
50. The Outsiders de Francis Ford Coppola (1983)
adapted from SE Hinton

Vous en conviendrez, les ressortissants de la perfide Albion ont eu la main plutôt légère sur les adaptations francophones. Et c'est pour ça, et aussi pour l'increvable romantique qui aime les romans d'amour et d'aventures et qui sommeille toujours en moi, que je proposerais d'ajouter le Cyrano de Bergerac de Jean-Paul Rappeneau: des tirades comme on n'en fait plus, de l'exaltation, de l'honneur, de la grandeur d'âme, de l'amour et un Depardieu qui ne se ridiculise pas...irrésistible.
Et vous?