Eragon Book Vs Movie Research Paper

Eragon | Book vs Movie
The movie industry has become one of the largest and most influential industries in American History. So much so that for the last century, movie producers have started making films based on popular books; In fact these movies have become a staple in the movie business. However, most of the time, the movies that producers choose to bring to the silver screen have been difficult to adapt and often do not follow the same storyline as their origin. Some of the time this trait has been enormously successful in the case of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit Trilogy, The Harry Potter series, and many more. However it has proven to be a let down in others such as The Golden Compass, Lemony Snicket, and especially Eragon. …show more content…
While the casting for the film was decent, and many well rounded and experienced actors did appear in the film, the character development and presentation was not in agreement with the book. One of the biggest failures of this is show in the character Brom. In the book Brom is portrayed as an older mysterious man with a long grey beard and adorned in robes, much like Gandalf or Dumbledore, yet in the film, Brom is portrayed, by Jeremy Irons (an amazing actor). While Iron’s acting was exceptional, he looked absolutely nothing like Brom was described as in the book. Aria is another example of this. In the book, Aria is described as almost ‘cat-like’ in her appearance, due to her ‘slanted facial features’. She is also described as having very dark hair, as taller that Eragon. Yet in the book, she looks nowhere near as depicted. She is at least a couple inches shorter than Eragon, she has reddish brown hair, and looks just like any human, the only thing remotely elf like on her are her pointed ears. I think everyone can agree that the casting for Aria’s character could have been a bit better, there is one character that there is no excuse for messing up as badly as they did;