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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Laura Obiols
Laura Obiols is known for adapting The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the book by Jean-Dominique Bauby published in 2014, for cinema.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby, 1997
movie vs book
Julian Schnabel, Laura Obiols, 2007
The first third of the film is told from the main character’s, Jean-Dominique Bauby, or Jean-Do as his friends call him, first person perspective. Bauby cannot speak, but he develops a system of communication with his speech and language therapist by blinking his left eye as she reads a list of letters to laboriously spell out his messages, letter by letter.