People from all around the world love to watch movies. People from all around the world love to read books. However, when the movie industry makes a book into a movie, many of the book lovers experience a massive let down. For those of us who read the book before seeing the movie, can all agree that in most cases, the movies just do not measure up to the book’s standards. The first thing that we book lovers typically notice are the characters. When reading any book, I get a picture in my head of how I believe the character should look. In City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, Clary describes Jace Wayland as whom, “reminded her of a lion, with his wide-spaced, light-colored eyes and that tawny gold hair,” and frequently drew him with angel wings
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I get to know them so I feel as if I am connected to them on a deeper level, whereas you don't get that feeling while watching a movie. It’s hard to show what the actor is feeling unless the movie breaks the fourth wall, in which the character talks directly to the audience throughout the movie, such as the new Deadpool movie or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Most movies typically don't do this, so you have to guess the characters emotional state based on the way the character is acting. During The Maze Runner movie, the main character, Thomas, is confused and trying to remember his past the whole time. While this was obvious to me, it just doesn't come across as personally as it did when I read the book by James Dashner. When I read Thomas’s thoughts, it’s like they become my own because I imagine myself in Thomas’s place. When I read what Thomas refuses to share with the other boys, that he does indeed remember Teresa, I feel the guilt he carries with him of not knowing how or why he knows her and why he can't tell his new friends. By knowing Thomas’s thoughts, it lets me experience the reality of waking up in a metal box and joining a compound of which there has been no escape and no one remembering anything from their pasts. I get emotionally connected to the character when I know their inner thoughts and you just cannot get the same notions from a movie, where it is mostly
I get to know them so I feel as if I am connected to them on a deeper level, whereas you don't get that feeling while watching a movie. It’s hard to show what the actor is feeling unless the movie breaks the fourth wall, in which the character talks directly to the audience throughout the movie, such as the new Deadpool movie or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Most movies typically don't do this, so you have to guess the characters emotional state based on the way the character is acting. During The Maze Runner movie, the main character, Thomas, is confused and trying to remember his past the whole time. While this was obvious to me, it just doesn't come across as personally as it did when I read the book by James Dashner. When I read Thomas’s thoughts, it’s like they become my own because I imagine myself in Thomas’s place. When I read what Thomas refuses to share with the other boys, that he does indeed remember Teresa, I feel the guilt he carries with him of not knowing how or why he knows her and why he can't tell his new friends. By knowing Thomas’s thoughts, it lets me experience the reality of waking up in a metal box and joining a compound of which there has been no escape and no one remembering anything from their pasts. I get emotionally connected to the character when I know their inner thoughts and you just cannot get the same notions from a movie, where it is mostly