{"id":1447626,"date":"2023-06-01T10:06:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1447626"},"modified":"2023-06-01T10:06:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:06:20","slug":"55-film-adaptations-of-classic-novels-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/55-film-adaptations-of-classic-novels-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"55 Film Adaptations of Classic Novels, Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/55classicmoviesranked2MAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1447628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/55classicmoviesranked2MAIN.jpg 701w, https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/55classicmoviesranked2MAIN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was in school, I couldn&#8217;t relate to my teachers, probably because most of them were adults in their forties and I was just some fifteen-year-old moron who was always forgetting to bring a pencil. But never did I feel more of a connection with these bastions of the education system than when they would put on a movie that was barely related to the topic at hand, kick back, and refuse to talk to anybody. In fact, I wish that was a strategy I could employ in my own life. \u201cIt&#8217;s a movie day,\u201d I would say, handing out DVD copies of <em>The Outsiders<\/em> to anyone who spoke to me. \u201cNo, this won&#8217;t be on the test.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all need a movie day every now and again, and that goes double for teachers, who have a job that is harder and more thankless than anything I will ever do. And that&#8217;s why, if you&#8217;ve ever taken an English class, you&#8217;ve probably watched a lot of classic novel film adaptations. You probably liked some, and hated others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But how good or bad were these movies REALLY, according Rotten Tomatoes? How do your opinions stack up against those of the world&#8217;s leading aggregate review site? Let&#8217;s find out together\u2014beginning, of course, with the worst&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in school, I couldn&#8217;t relate to my teachers, probably because most of them were adults in their forties and I was just some fifteen-year-old moron who was always forgetting to bring a   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,8633,25017,602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447626"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447635,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447626\/revisions\/1447635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}