Book and Movie Associations

Do you ever associate movies and TV shows with books? I'm not talking about movies that are based on books, rather the content or character or something else makes  you think about a particular movie or show or book and you feel like you just have to watch it or read it?

I do ... all the time.

Sometimes there's a flow on effect, where one leads to another.








I love Dee Henderson's book 'Undetected'. Every time I read it, I then get the urge to watch 'The Hunt for Red October' starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin.

This also connects with an episode of JAG that refers to 'The Hunt for Red October'.

Then I've been watching 'Operation Petticoat' starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis. Which leads me to my next book:

'Every Storm' by Lori Wick. While not set on a submarine, it does involve a rescue and war time.

There are others as well.

If I'm going to watch 'The West Wing' then I always watch 'The American President first.

Not that it actually comes first (although it was made first), but some of the sets were used in both the movie and the TV show and some of the actors are the same, although not in the same roles or even having the same name.

I'm sure there are others, but I think you get the idea.

How about you? Do you associate books and movies or TV shows like this?

Why Do You Like It?

Have you ever thought about why you like a particular TV show?

Is it because it makes you laugh? You like a certain actor in it?

I've been watching season 1 of Numb3rs, and was thinking about this as I watched the final scenes of an episode.

I like the intricacies of the plot lines, the twists in the stories, and the relationships between the brothers.

My favorite part of each episode is right at the end, where the bad guys have been caught, and the main characters seem to take a breath and talk about something unrelated to the case, or their thoughts about some aspect of how it affected them. I like that, because you have some time to wind down from the intensity of the climax before the episode finishes.

Your thoughts?

10 on Tuesday - Favorite Characters from Television

10 Favorite Characters from Television

In no particular order:

1. Harmon Rabb (JAG)

2. Jessica Fletcher (Murder She Wrote)

3. Dr Mark Sloan (Diagnosis Murder)

4. Perry Mason (Perry Mason)

5. Christopher Foyle (Foyle's War)

6. Remington Steele (Remington Steele)

7. Charlie Epps (Numb3rs)

8. Sarah MacKenzie (JAG)

9. Benton Frasier (Due South)

10. Mike Flynn (Sea Patrol)

For my first of these I found this quite hard. I'll be interested to see what future 10 on Tuesday topics will be.