If yesterday we introduced you to a Ray Bradbury which advised with his 10 annotations To those who want to be writers, or at least try, today we bring you the list with the Ray Bradbury's works taken to the movies. As we will see below, some are his own novels and others are scripts adapted from other popular novels.
We leave you with them!
"It Came from Outer Space" (1953)
Su Director was Jack arnold And if this novel does not sound like anything to you, it is probably because it is a film adaptation of an unpublished Ray Bradbury story.
In this film, John Putnam, a rookie astronomer, and his fiancee Ellen Fields, a young teacher, watch as an alien ship collides in the Arizona desert. After seeing that crash, they realize that the figure of a creature emerges from the ship that disappears into the darkness. John tells what happened to the Arizona sheriff, who thinks he is crazy. Little by little, strange things begin to happen to the people who live there.
"Moby Dick" (1956)
As you probably already know, the original work of "Moby Dick" it was written by another great writer, Herman Melville. So what is the relationship between Ray Bradbury and this movie? In this case, it was the writer who adapted the novel to a film script. This movie was directed by John Huston.
In it, we see how Captain Ahab is in command of the whaling ship "Pequod". On a trip whose mission was to hunt whales, the crew of the ship learn that the captain has a goal that he has been obsessively pursuing for some time: to kill a specific white whale, the one that years ago tore off his leg. Ahab is willing to sacrifice his life, that of the crew and the entire ship to kill that white whale.
"Fahrenheit 451" (1966)
As we said in yesterday's article on Bradbury, this book by "Fahrenheit 451" it was also brought to the big screen. One of the best books by the author, without a doubt.
The film takes place in a future city (which would not be far from being the current one), where the state prohibits books. The firefighters, with the help of informants (snitches), are in charge of searching, finding and burning all that book hidden in the city. The only information that the population knows is that transmitted through their televisions. Guy Montag is a firefighter who begins to question the function of his trade and his actions in society after falling in love with a young woman, Clarisse, who leads him to be curious about reading and, consequently, to contempt for his superiors.
The title of Fahrenheit 451, equivalent to 232 degrees Celsius, refers to the temperature at which the paper burns.
"The Summer of Picasso" (1969)
This film is based on a writing made by Bradbury in 1969, directed by Serge Bourguignon and Robert Sallyn.
In it we see how a couple established in San Francisco, George and Alice Smith, get bored and run away from their pretentious monotony in the city. They both fall in love with the works painted by the artist Pablo Picasso and they decide to make a trip to Europe to meet him.
"The Illustrated Man" (1969)
A movie directed by Jack Smight and based on the book of the same name whose author is also Ray Bradbury.
He is known as "the enlightened man" because his body was almost completely tattooed, a terrible condemnation or curse of a woman. Each tattoo represents a story, which in turn is linked to another ...
The book is composed of 18 stories, which are summarized in the film over 3 episodes.
"The carnival of darkness" (1983)
Movie directed by Jack Clayton. It is a feature film written by Bradbury, in which Jim and William, its two main protagonists, have a terrifying experience after the arrival of a traveling circus in the small town where they live. Mr. Dark is the one who wears said circus, the boss, who has a tattoo for each individual who serves him in the different circus shows. Mr. Dark promises to make all of anyone's dreams come true, doesn't he?
In addition to all these films, Ray Bradbury, wrote scripts for various chapters of the television series «Alfred Hitchcock Presents » and his book "Martian Chronicles" ended up being adapted to a mini-series.
As demonstrated, Ray Bradbury, a true genius and figure, not only literary speaking but also cinematographically as we have just seen.