top 100 adapted screenplays.....

ok, so....we are beyond the top movies and books...and on to the books made into movies...the list posted by people who make such lists contains the usual suspects.......to kill a mockingbird tops the heap, followed by gone with the wind, wizard of oz, and the shawshank redemption.....gigi is way down there near the bottom, but still made the cut.....good for madame colette.....of course, there is no accounting for just bastardized the movie made from the book became........how does one qualify the good movie which bears little resemblance to the good book from which it sprang.....frankly, i am not sure that i have seen many films better than the books used for inspiration.....maybe the lotr trilogy....if only because the movie was so much easier to watch than the books were to follow......and that example made it only to #69 on this list.....go figure....these days the trend appears to be in publishing books after the movie comes out, this happens quite a lot with kiddie films.........a book springs forth that is essentially a screenplay tweaked into prose......ah well......now that this list has been sent out into cyberspace....what ground is left to be rated?.......100 best opening lines....100 best closing comments........100 best kissing scenes?........100 best dog films?.........