College Speech Idea Help - $10 prize to winner ASAP

I have to make a speech tommorow on "examine a retelling of a narrative to determine why the re-teller made the choices he or she did while writing/creating the second work of art."

It's similar to our first essay on The Glass Key by Hammett and Miller's Crossing.

What are some good easy retellings I can examine for tommorow? What are some books that were made into [censored] movies or great movies. Best idea will get $10 via pokerstars from me. I need this within the next hour though cause I have to make a good powerpoint.

Please herlp!

Tears

the Wizard of Oz or Charlie and Chocolate Factory

[Clarkmeister]

Lord of the Rings has got to have a billion pages of material already written examining the differences between the movie and the books.

Great Idea Clarkmeister - Can you provide me with any links or such? I'd appreciate it a ton. I'm trying to search for some now with no luck I never read any of the LOTR books.

[Clarkmeister]

I know that there are two pretty big google groups pertaining to LOTR. One of them gets pretty in depth on stuff like this. alt.fan.tolkien is one.

[Clarkmeister]

rec.arts.books.tolkien is another.

[bholdr]

How 'Bout "Oh Brother Where Art Thou"... allegory for Homer's Oddesy?

[Dudd]

Bourne Identity the book and Bourne Identity the movie are almost completely different besides the general super agent plot.

[Sightless]

Fight Club?

[diebitter]

Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now would be pretty interesting

(comparing the decine of British Imperialism vs US military intervention??)