Over the past one hundred years of film production, there have only been handful of movies that have fulfilled the ambition of turning the great book into a great movie Literary critics as well as movie critic applaud both versions of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest .The classic children's story, The Wizard of Oz ,was transformed into a classic movie musical that parents and children still enjoy today. Lovers of the historical novel, Gone with the Wind, continue to be swept away by the movie adaptation starring clank Gable and Vivien Leigh. Science fiction readers as well as movie critics both hail Stanly kubrick's flim, 2001: A Space Odyssy,which was co-write by kubrick 's with the novel's auther Arthur C.Clanke, as a masterpiece