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**According to Wikipedia, there have been 17 different film adaptations of O.

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*Henry’s classic short story about a couple’s thwarted Christmas; the essential format—Della sells her hair to buy Jim a watch chain; Jim sells his watch to buy Della a set of combs—has been referenced and replicated countless times beyond that.

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__I even heard Dax Shepard refer to this story on his podcast the other day, and so I rest my case.

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I was tempted to include “Hills Like White Elephants” because of the number of people forced to read it to learn about dialogue (happily,

there are other options), but “The Killers,” while less often anthologized, is more influential overall, and gave us not only two full length film adaptations

and a Tarkovsky short but Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain,” which I do think is a very good story to learn from, if not for dialogue, then for story-making.