Films based on novels

article The Female Voice in To Kill a Mockingbird: Narrative Strategies in Film and Novel, Dean Shackleford (Winter 1996) compares To Kill a Mockingbird with its film version. Shackleford argues that “That the film shifts perspectives from the book’s primary concern with the female protagonist and her perceptions to the male father figure and the adult male world is noteworthy”. The article begins with a passage from the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee with Aunt Alexandra obsessively…

thought that a film based on a novel will rarely fulfill the expectations of readers due to the vast differences and artistic interpretation that is incorporated into the cinematic piece. Fortunately, the Steven Spielberg film The Color Purple is not an example of this Hollywood disappointment. This film adaptation - based off of Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner, The Color Purple - is beautifully produced and was awarded the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture. The film…

The literary point of view of any novel or screenplay is an important characteristic because it gives either adaptation ambience towards the characters or how the story is structured. It also describes the character’s position in relation to the story and his/her outlook in regards to the attitudes and events that revolve around them and supporting characters in the storyline. Mildred Pierce, a 1941 novel written by James M. Cain and later adapted into a film noir screenplay directed by Michael…

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a novel that stays relevant in the 21st century, the initial 12 years which have seen a number of nations of the globe participated in battle or on the brink of battle. The book is still avidly studied by trainees in classrooms all over the world, as well as it remains a topic of discussion within popular culture as well as mainstream media. It was an unique that checked out issues that include imperialism, race, chaos and good versus evil, all especially…

every story, and every writer, is different. Some writers, like Suzanne Collins, write novels with a balance of both romantic elements and action throughout. This delicate balance makes her books exceptional, but easy to botch in film adaptations. For example, the film adaptation of Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins had its action elements magnified, while the romantic aspects were played down. Although the film adaptation doesn’t change the setting, characters and plot considerably, the tiny…

often made into movies to expand the viewers of the books. Many times parts are added, taken out, or deleted changing the perspective of the movie and sometimes the plot. Harper Lee’s, Pulitzer Prize winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird was published on July 11th, 1960 and turned into a film that was released in 1962. On of the difference was they removed Aunt Alexandra from the movie. She was a huge part of scouts life, always helping her act more like a lady and stay classy. It is little…

George Orwell’s novel 1984 has been remixed, adapted, and transformed through time in many different ways and for many different reasons. The strength of the primary message of the dangers of conformity in the novel is what drives people to keep making it relevant and stressing the idea of a good versus a common evil in many different mediums. Remixes are meant to be seen as a creative and innovative in which someone builds off of someone else and shapes an existing work into something new and…

Holocaust it should be specific; having important dates and realistic actions. Both the film, Life Is Beautiful, and the novel, Night, are stories based off the Holocaust. Life Is Beautiful is a story about Guido and his family going through the Holocaust, while Night is a novel telling the story of Elie’s first hand experiences. In both stories, they experience the struggles of the Holocaust. The novel, Night, and the film, Life is Beautiful, have the same setting and external problems.…

makes audiences feel Jack act monstrously since film started. When elevator is oozing more and more crimson blood, the music makes audiences feel more breathless. The typewriter makes monotonous and edgier sound, Jack plays squash’s echo, these seem to be a witness to Jack mental break down every day to become madness. Audiences can feel Jack’s change more vividly and directly. Film music (sound) and the pictures’ combination are more expressive than novel, it makes the movie has become…

changes Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre to highlight the ideals of his audiences mindset, such as the ideal of marrying for love rather than independence to create a fast paced romance. The film appeals to the themes in the film such as gender equality and independence but dilutes the meaning through the incapacity to reveal Jane’s inner thoughts and enhances the meaning through cinematography. The introduction of the character St John at the beginning of the film deviates from the…