If I Stay Book Analysis

Film adaptations have been popular since the time film production began, but film will never compare to the power of the imagination throughout the pages of a book. Hundreds of pieces of literature have been adapted into movies and no matter what, there is always somebody that is disappointed with the movie. The power of imagination is widely distinct among people. An ordinary reader will read a book and imagine the contents entirely different from the way the author intended. That is the same with film makers. Authors are often disappointed in the way the movie, based on their book, turns out. Although there are countless authors that appreciate the movie version of their works, there is still disappointment among the fan based community. …show more content…
“A movie is a very stripped-down, straight-forward version of a more complex novel,” stated author Spragg. Unlike author Cussler, Spragg’s experience with his movie was gratifying. For Spragg, the director would consult with him if a change needed to be made. The director respectfully included Spragg in the filming of the movie. Similarly to Spragg, author of If I Stay, Gayle Forman, was also respected by her director. She was an executive producer on the film, which meant that she consulted with the director, producer and the screenwriter on drafts of the screenplay and things they had questions about. She also communicated between the filmmakers and the readers, who she had been hearing from for years. She was able to communicate things like their favorite scenes and the bits from the book she knew were important to them. Forman was even sceptical about how the filmmakers would transition her book into film for the book changed between present tense and non chronological flashbacks. Forman trusted her film makers and knew that her screenwriters were astonishing. For Forman the experience of filmmaking was exceptional, as for Spragg. There were no major issues for these authors and everyone involved was satisfied with the way the films turned out. Both authors respected the process of filmmaking and the producers and directors respectfully included the authors. Did the …show more content…
It also affects the fans. Although films will never be exactly the same as the book, the film can still determine the outcome of reviews. For some readers film adaptations are accepting, but for other fans the adaptations are offensive. Catherine Buck, a book lover and author of the article “Books are often better than movies”, admits that she is the type of annoying person at the movies that complains the whole time and whispers about the differences between the movie and the book to the person sitting next to her. After watching the fourth Harry Potter movie she came home ranting angrily after seeing the things they cut out in the movie, then she proceeded to watch it again in theaters two days later, because she gives the director 's credit for squeezing six hundred plus pages into a two hour film. Unlike Catherine, who admits to disliking the adaptations but she still respects the directors, there are fans that hate the movie versions. A fan of the book series “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”, Rebecca, shared that she was annoyed at all the parts that she hadn 't seen in the movie, mainly, the exclusion of one character 's younger sister. In Catherine 's article she also talks about people who read books before they watch the movie and states that people have preconceived ideas of how things in the movie should appear based on how each person pictured them. She mentions that it can be very upsetting to see that