Adaptation Enthusiast Gifts

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

"Hey - that new Stephen King film is better than the book!"

"It's amazing, Darlin', just how fast the kids grow up!"

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

A man deflates and dissolves into the ground and becomes a flower.

Robocop and Juliet.

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

'I know we're inchworms, but let's get into the spirit of this! Change is good!'

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

Moby Dick

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

"I wasn't expecting to be in here for so long."

'It was restored just last year, and changed from an abstract painting to a landscape.'

Good coaches help people change, great coaches help the change stick...

"Peace. Love. Adopt."

"The studio's asked me to see if I can dumb down some Danielle Steel."

'I sense this may not be a one-way journey.'

"The thing is, you have to really want to change."

"I prefer your early pieces."

'Typical phallic egocentrism!'

"I preferred the graphic novel of the origin story of the original prequel."

'I could really do with a change, couldn't you?'

'And here, the artist is clearly making an ironic statement about the fleeting nature of material possessions.'

"I'll be out in the great world, wearing may hats."

Barber Shop in the Coronavirus Age

"So tell me, what do you hope to achieve this year?"

"Well, I admire your resilience."

"Yes, I specialize in helping people like through the changes ahead: Change is good if you embrace it..."

'Boy, there's nothing more embarrassing that being a werewolf during a partial lunar eclipse.'

"You're just not the fuzzy caterpillar I fell in love with, anymore!"

'You're trying to reinvent yourself, aren't you?'