I watched Book Club – The Next Chapter again with a friend over this long weekend. Yes, it’s the second time but a)it was a nice outing with a friend, b) I languished in the Italian landscape and c) what not?
The actors read three books in the movie for their online book club during the COVID scenes and it got me thinking how many other movies have books in them just as props? Well I found a list and have chosen a few to reply.
A Fish Called Wanda
Character: Otto West (Kevin Kline)
Book:Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Apocalypse Now
Character: Walter E Kurtz
Book:The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot
Bad Teacher
Character: Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz)
Book:To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Donnie Darko
Character: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)
Book:Twenty-One Stories by Graham Greene
Friends with Kids
Character: Kurt (Jon Hamm)
Book:Cod by Mark Kurlansky
When Harry met Sally
Character: Harry Burns (Billy Crystal)
Book:The Icarus Agenda by Robert Ludlum
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Character: Leaky Cauldron Customer (Ian Brown)
Book:A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking
Hot Fuzz
Character: Sergeant Turner
Book:Complicity by Iain Banks
Hot Shots Part Deux
Character: Topper Harley
Book:Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Inglourious Basterds
Character: Shoshanna Dreyfus
Book:The Saint In New York by Leslie Charteris
It’s a Wonderful Life
Character: George Bailey (James Stewart)
Book:The Adventures Of Tom Swayer by Mark Twain
King Kong
Character: Jimmy
Book:Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Little Miss Sunshine
Character: Dwayne Hoover (Paul Dano)
Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Matilda
Character: Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson)
Book: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Natural Born Killers
Character: Mallory Knox (Juliette Lewis)
Book:The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Notting Hill
Character: William Thacker (Hugh Grant)
Book:Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis De Bernières
Poltergeist
Character: Steve Freeling (Craig T Nelson)
Book:Reagan: The Man, The President by Various
Pulp Fiction
Character: Vincent Vega (John Travolta)
Book:Modesty Blaise by Peter O’Donnell
Serendipity
Character: Sarah Thomas (Kate Beckinsale)
Book:Love In the Time Of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Addams Family Values
Character: Morticia Addams (Anjelica Huston)
Book:The Cat In The Hat by Dr Seuss
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Character: Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt)
Book:Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Hours
Character: Laura Brown (Julianne Moore)
Book:Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Reader
Character: Michael Berg (David Kross)
Book:War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Wedding Crashers
Character: John Beckwith (Owen Wilson)
Book:Don’t Jump: The Northwest Winter Blues Survival Guide by Traci Vogel
The Shining
Character: Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall)
Book:The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger
You’ve Got Mail
Character: Kathleen Kelly
Book:Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Crow
Character: T-Bird (David Patrick Kelly)
Book:Paradise Lost by John Milton
Gone With the Wind
Character: Melanie Hamilton Wilkes (Olivia de Havilland)
Book:David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
It was an eye opener seeing so many.
Can you think of any others?
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