Film critic Bob Mondello looks at how things get changed as filmmakers adapt classic novels from the page to the screen. "Moll Flanders", which opens today, appears to be nothing like Daniel Defoe's novel. And Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame (NOH-truh DAHM)" has Quasimodo singing and dancing, when Victor Hugo wrote him as deaf and monosyllabic. Some films have been faithful, like "Sense and Sensibility." And still others, like "Clueless" resemble the novel on which they are based, even though they are many steps removed from the original. >
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