Schindler's List. Poster of the 1993 movie and cover of the 1982 book
VS3
Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally, 1982
movie vs book
Steven Spielberg, 1993

In Kraków during World War II, the Germans have forced local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. To better protect his workers, Schindler bribes Göth into allowing him to build a sub-camp. As the Germans begin to lose the war, Göth is ordered to ship the remaining Jews at Płaszów to Auschwitz concentration camp. Schindler asks Göth to allow him to move his workers to a new munitions factory he plans to build in Brünnlitz near his home town Zwittau.


Batman Begins. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the book novelization
VS3
Batman Begins
Dennis O'Neil, 2005
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Christopher Nolan, 2005

As a child in Gotham City, Bruce Wayne falls down a dry well and is attacked by a swarm of bats, developing a fear of bats. Outside, mugger Joe Chill murders Bruce’s parents in front of him, and the orphaned Bruce is raised by the family butler, Alfred Pennyworth. Bruce poses publicly as a shallow playboy, while setting up a base in the caves beneath Wayne Manor and taking up the vigilante identity of Batman, inspired by his childhood fear, which he has now conquered.


Batman Begins. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 1940 comic book, Batman
VS3
Batman
Bob Kane, Bill Finger, 1940
movie vs comic book
Christopher Nolan, 2005

As a child in Gotham City, Bruce Wayne falls down a dry well and is attacked by a swarm of bats, developing a fear of bats. Outside, mugger Joe Chill murders Bruce’s parents in front of him, and the orphaned Bruce is raised by the family butler, Alfred Pennyworth.


Gangs of New York. Poster of the 2002 movie and cover of the 1927 book, The Gangs of New York
VS3
The Gangs of New York
Herbert Asbury, 1927
movie vs book
Martin Scorsese, 2002

In the slum neighborhood of Five Points, Manhattan, in 1846, two gangs have engaged in a final battle in Paradise Square over who holds sway over the Five Points; these two factions participating in this event are the Nativist Protestants led by William Bill the Butcher Cutting, and a group of Irish Catholic immigrants, the Dead Rabbits, led by Priest Vallon. Having witnessed this, Vallon’s young son hides the knife that killed his father and is taken to an orphanage on Blackwell’s Island.


A Monster Calls. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 2011 book
VS3
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness, 2011
movie vs book
J.A. Bayona, 2016

13-year-old Conor O’Malley has a close bond with his seriously ill mother, and maintains the household during her regular chemotherapy treatments at the hospital. After he angrily damages her valuable clock, the Monster appears and tells the second story: a hard-hearted parson forbids an apothecary from extracting medicine from an old yew tree, only to rescind this measure when his own children become ill.


Les Misérables. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the 1862 book
VS3
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo, 1862
movie vs book
Bille August, 1998

In 1815, French prisoner Jean Valjean is released from the Bagne of Toulon after serving nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread for his sister’s son. Stealing his silverware, Valjean is captured by police, but the Bishop claims he gave Valjean the silver, telling him to use it to do something worthwhile with his life. Moved, Valjean breaks his parole to start a new life.


Excalibur. Poster of the 1981 movie and cover of the 1485 book, Le Morte d'Arthur
VS3
Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory, 1485
movie vs book
John Boorman, 1981

Uthur Pendragon is given the mystical sword Excalibur by the wizard Merlin. At his death, Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that can pull it out will be King of England. Several years later, Arthur, Uthur’s bastard son, draws Excalibur and becomes King. Guided by Merlin, Arthur marries Guenevere and gathers the Knights of the Round Table.


Les Misérables. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the book novelization
VS3
Les Miserables: A Novel
Leonore Fleischer, 1862
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Bille August, 1998

In 1815, French prisoner Jean Valjean is released from the Bagne of Toulon after serving nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread for his sister’s son. Stealing his silverware, Valjean is captured by police, but the Bishop claims he gave Valjean the silver, telling him to use it to do something worthwhile with his life. Moved, Valjean breaks his parole to start a new life.


The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 1905 book, All Gold Canyon
VS3
All Gold Canyon
Jack London, 1905
movie vs book
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2018

Buster Scruggs, a cheerful singing cowboy, arrives at an isolated cantina full of outlaws where he exchanges insults with another patron before effortlessly shooting everyone as they reach for their guns. He then heads to Frenchman’s Gulch and enters a saloon, leaving his guns at the door to comply with its no firearms policy.


The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 1901 book, The Girl Who Got Rattled
VS3
The Girl Who Got Rattled
Stewart Edward White, 1901
movie vs book
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2018

Buster Scruggs, a cheerful singing cowboy, arrives at an isolated cantina full of outlaws where he exchanges insults with another patron before effortlessly shooting everyone as they reach for their guns. He then heads to Frenchman’s Gulch and enters a saloon, leaving his guns at the door to comply with its no firearms policy.


Silence. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 1966 book
VS3
Silence
Shūsaku Endō, 1966
movie vs book
Martin Scorsese, 2016

The film begins with a prologue where the veteran Portuguese Jesuit priest Cristóvão Ferreira witnesses the torture of Japanese converts he has been trying to bring to the Christian faith. A few years later, at St. Paul’s College, Macau, an Italian Jesuit priest, Alessandro Valignano, receives news that Ferreira renounced his faith in Japan after being tortured.


Unknown. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2003 book, Out Of My Head
VS3
Out Of My Head
Didier van Cauwelaert, 2003
movie vs book
Jaume Collet-Serra, 2011

Dr. Martin Harris and his wife Liz arrive in Berlin for a biotechnology summit. The taxi is involved in an accident and crashes into the Spree, knocking him unconscious. As Harris attempts to prove his identity, Harris provides identification and a family photo, both of which have his face.