Movies Adapted from Novels That Ended up Being Better Than the Book

Drive (2011)

James Sallis’ 2005 novel Drive contains just as much style as the movie adaptation, but both versions are meant to exhibit restraint, which translates more effectively on screen. Nicolas Winding Refn’s filmmaking demonstrates passion and violence in a way that just can’t be done on paper.

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