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Based on an Advice Book
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Hollywood knows how to make commercially successful movies out of unpromising source material: Pragmatic Adaptation. Sometimes their source material is not only non-fiction but isn't even a narrative. That doesn't seem to deter Hollywood from making movies and TV shows out of advice books. Normally the plot will center on a character following, overtly or otherwise, the advice in the book, but there are In Name Only exceptions, such as Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex note But Were Afraid To Ask. Examples |
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Health and Physical Education for 30-Year-Olds, a sex-and-dating guide targeted at lonely Otaku in their '30s. | |
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For a video game example, the Brain Age games are Minigame Games based on Train Your Brain: 60 Days to a Better Brain, by Dr. Ryuta Kawashima. | |
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a parody of such books. | |
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Sex and the Single Girl was named after the book by Helen Gurley Brown and starred Natalie Wood as a heavily fictionalized version of Brown. | |
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Mean Girls is based on Queen Bees & Wannabees by Rosalind Wiseman, a guide for parents of adolescent girls. Mean Girls also deconstructed the story of the "elite" high school clique, despite being the story that most of the later works would imitate. The catty members of the various Girl Posses are shown the damage that such soap-opera-like high school backstabbing does, the Girl Posse's infighting is portrayed as pointlessly self-destructive and shallow, and the Alpha Bitch is a villain to be pitied and hated rather than loved and feared. | |
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is based on a short cartoon book of the same name by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long. | |
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The title and namesake Fantastic Beasts (at least in the first film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) are based on J. K. Rowling's book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which is a fictional guide with nothing resembling a plot. | |
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War Machine is based on a Rolling Stone article, with names changed. | |
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What to Expect When You're Expecting is based on the perennial favourite pregnancy advice book and features an All-Star Cast. | |
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8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter. Although that's not really an advice book; it's a comedy book, parts of which parody advice books. | |
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The video game series Soldier of Fortune is based on the magazine of the same name. | |
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Both The Fast and the Furious (2001) and Live Free or Die Hard were based on magazine articles. | |
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It, a 1927 romantic comedy starring Clara Bow which spawned the term "It Girl", was based on Elinor Glyn's advice guide about how to have great sex appeal. | |
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Saturday Night Fever was based on Nik Cohn's article "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", which he later admitted was a complete fabrication. | |
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Yes-Man, sort of: the book it was based on is a memoir, but a sort of self-help memoir. | |
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Safety Not Guaranteed is a very expanded adaptation of a cryptic classified ad from 1997 that went viral online. | |
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He's Just Not That into You was based on an advice book based on a stand-up comedy bit. | |
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Parodied in Telltale's Sam & Max: Freelance Police games, where almost every episode is claimed to be based on some sort of pamphlet that has nothing to do with the actual plot. This is a running gag from the original comics as well. | |
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The film Think Like a Man is based on Steve Harvey's relationship advice book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. | |
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