The Grand Budapest Hotel. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 1925 book, Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
VS3
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
Stefan Zweig, 1925
movie vs book
Wes Anderson, 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.


The Grand Budapest Hotel. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 1939 book, Beware of Pity
VS3
Beware of Pity
Stefan Zweig, 1939
movie vs book
Wes Anderson, 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.


The Grand Budapest Hotel. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 1942 book, The World of Yesterday
VS3
The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig, 1942
movie vs book
Wes Anderson, 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.


The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Poster of the 2007 movie and cover of the 1997 book
VS3
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.


Munich. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 1984 book, Vengeance
VS3
Vengeance
George Jonas, 1984
movie vs book
Steven Spielberg, 2005

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September kills 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team. Avner Kaufman, a Mossad agent of German-Jewish descent, is chosen to lead a mission to assassinate 11 Palestinians allegedly involved in the massacre.


An Officer and a Spy. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 2013 book
VS3
An Officer and a Spy
Robert Harris, 2013
movie vs book
Roman Polanski, 2019

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young promising officer, is degraded for spying for Germany, wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil’s Island. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, who is promoted to run the military counter-intelligence unit that tracked him down.


Quantum of Solace. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the 1965 book
VS3
Quantum of Solace
Ian Fleming, 1965
movie vs book
Marc Forster, 2008

Moments after the end of the previous film, James Bond is driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy, with the captured Mr White in the trunk of his Aston Martin DBS V12. Observing her subsequent meeting with Greene, Bond learns Greene is helping exiled Bolivian General Medrano, who murdered Camille’s family, to overthrow the government and become the new president, in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.


Cosmopolis. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 2003 book
VS3
Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo, 2003
movie vs book
David Cronenberg, 2012

Twenty-eight-year-old billionaire currency asset manager Eric Packer rides slowly across Manhattan amid traffic jams, in his state-of-the-art luxury stretch limousine office, to his preferred barber. The traffic jams are caused by a visit of the President of the United States and the funeral of Eric’s favorite musician, a rap artist whose music he plays in one of his two private elevators.


Never Ever. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 2001 book, The Body Artist
VS3
The Body Artist
Don DeLillo, 2001
movie vs book
Benoît Jacquot, 2016

A performance artist Laura meets a film director Rey. The two fall in love and get married. After Rey dies of a motorcycle accident, Laura feels alone in her house. The film expresses the feeling of love and loss.