Many incredible books that are well known and loved have been made into movies, such as, Twilight, Harry Potter, as well as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. While watching them have you ever said to yourself, “That scene wasn’t like the book” or “They got rid of [character/scene]”? Film adaptations are now known to be the movie industry, and because of this there are a lot more critics in the world. Readers mainly notice how film adaptations make people anti-readers, crush character development and have a limited timeframe that causes alterations and cuts to the plot.
When an author writes a book they add description that allows readers to visualize the setting, and make personal connections. The setting described in a book gives the …show more content…
Books mainly focus on character development whereas movies tend to focus on the casting of the character. The characters casted can make or break a film when they are shown on screen. Movie producers end up using famous people who have acting experience to act out the character in the book. For example, in the book, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Percy is supposed to "look" like a 12 year old who doesn’t know what he is doing and would lose any fight he got into. Yet in the movie, Percy looks partially athletic, and is 16 years old. Casting decisions play an important role while making a movie; if the actors/actresses don't look like the characters described in the book, there will be critics. This will end up affecting the overall view of the movie, and what kind of publicity you will have, negative or positive? Books can take you into a character's thoughts in ways a film cannot. Books can use a first person narrative to tell you what a character is thinking. When this is happening you develop sympathy and make connections to each character. As you can tell, books don't need to rely on anything to get there audience to understand and feel each character's thoughts and pain. Whereas movies must depend on looks or voice-overs to convey those thoughts. Movies tend to take certain scenes out from the movie depending on the movies length, while doing so they are crushing the character …show more content…
Books have no time limit, and most of the time the longer the book is, the better, because it generally means that it has a more interesting plot. For example, if you look at Harry Potter, the books are very long, and as you may know, they are loved by many. Movie directors try to be very careful with their alterations and cuts, but this would usually be the time a problem occurs. Movies based on books always have missing pieces to make it shorter. Readers have no choice but to be disappointed when their favorite part isn’t included, or something they believe is a necessity to the book, gets left out. Time limitations in movies make it difficult to establish a sense of time going by. What we may interpret as a few weeks may actually be multiple months. Time passing is easier to achieve in a book because the story doesn’t need to be changed/altered. In a book, we witness a more natural advancement in character development and add to key events that take place, rather than jumping from one significant event into the next. Therefore, development in the book is more complex, deep and not rushed, which is considered more satisfying to readers.
There have been many attempts in making a film adaptation; some have ended in success, most in misery. Directors should not be allowed to take on a book and attempt to put it into movie form, because there is little hope for
When an author writes a book they add description that allows readers to visualize the setting, and make personal connections. The setting described in a book gives the …show more content…
Books mainly focus on character development whereas movies tend to focus on the casting of the character. The characters casted can make or break a film when they are shown on screen. Movie producers end up using famous people who have acting experience to act out the character in the book. For example, in the book, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Percy is supposed to "look" like a 12 year old who doesn’t know what he is doing and would lose any fight he got into. Yet in the movie, Percy looks partially athletic, and is 16 years old. Casting decisions play an important role while making a movie; if the actors/actresses don't look like the characters described in the book, there will be critics. This will end up affecting the overall view of the movie, and what kind of publicity you will have, negative or positive? Books can take you into a character's thoughts in ways a film cannot. Books can use a first person narrative to tell you what a character is thinking. When this is happening you develop sympathy and make connections to each character. As you can tell, books don't need to rely on anything to get there audience to understand and feel each character's thoughts and pain. Whereas movies must depend on looks or voice-overs to convey those thoughts. Movies tend to take certain scenes out from the movie depending on the movies length, while doing so they are crushing the character …show more content…
Books have no time limit, and most of the time the longer the book is, the better, because it generally means that it has a more interesting plot. For example, if you look at Harry Potter, the books are very long, and as you may know, they are loved by many. Movie directors try to be very careful with their alterations and cuts, but this would usually be the time a problem occurs. Movies based on books always have missing pieces to make it shorter. Readers have no choice but to be disappointed when their favorite part isn’t included, or something they believe is a necessity to the book, gets left out. Time limitations in movies make it difficult to establish a sense of time going by. What we may interpret as a few weeks may actually be multiple months. Time passing is easier to achieve in a book because the story doesn’t need to be changed/altered. In a book, we witness a more natural advancement in character development and add to key events that take place, rather than jumping from one significant event into the next. Therefore, development in the book is more complex, deep and not rushed, which is considered more satisfying to readers.
There have been many attempts in making a film adaptation; some have ended in success, most in misery. Directors should not be allowed to take on a book and attempt to put it into movie form, because there is little hope for