Bookalicio.us on Tumblr

vintageanchor:

Literary police sketches; Adding images to classic words…

“Ask any adaptation-hating book purist and they’ll tell you that one of the great joys of reading is the ability to form your own idea of how the characters look, without having dictatorial Hollywood in charge. Well, chances are they might hate to love Brian Joseph Davis a bit then. He’s scoured some classic books for the physical descriptions of the protagonists and created police sketch-like images of what the details suggest. It’s all painstakingly awesome stuff, which highlights how brilliant the casting of James Mason was in the original Lolita and how un-Michael Fassbender-y the actual Rochester looked in Bronte’s Jane Eyre. The following pictures are also accompanied by the details he used from the novels themselves. You can see more of his sterling work here.”

1. Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett

2. Vaughn, Crash, JG Ballard

3. Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

4. Keith Talent, London Fields, Martin Amis

5. Edward Rochester, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

6. Pinkie Brown, Brighton Rock, Graham Greene

7. Emma Bovary, Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

8. Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

Read more in Short List here.