Advantages to Reading the Book of the Movie
The film industry is a multi-million pound industry with plenty of incredibly successful films released each year. Some of the most successful movies can make millions of pounds on their opening weekend alone, proving that the film industry is thriving and that people all around the world are still choosing to watch films for entertainment. What many people are unaware of is that many of the biggest films are in fact based on books, films such as The Lord of The Rings, The Da Vinci Code and even The Shawshank Redemption to name but a few.
One of the most famous series of books to be have been turned into a film is of course the Harry Potter series. With each book and each film being more and more popular than the last, the Harry Potter brand has become a multi-million pound franchise that includes seven films. The last in the series was made into two films and the brand has even inspired the opening of a theme park in America. However, many people feel that when a book is made into a film that the story loses some of its character, magic, sense of place and detail – things that can only really be achieved by reading the words on a page and creating images in your own mind.
A typical film will last between one and two hours and it takes a lot of work to adapt a book into a successful film lasting for this amount of time. In order to fit a full book’s plot and storyline into this time, and to make sure that it works for the screen, a screenplay writer will usually need to make some pretty major changes. Once the script has been written, the imagery and the look of the finished product will ultimately be down to the director’s own vision, and whilst many directors earn high praise for their own interpretations, you may not be getting the ‘full picture’. This is why a lot of people when talking about films that started life as a book will say “the book is so much better”.
A book offers its reader the chance to dip in and out of chapters as he or she choose, reading at their own pace and commanding a particular level of imagination in order to conjure up specific places and the way characters might look. A book is open to interpretation, both in terms of storyline, back story, meaning and indeed visually, and when a book is made into a film, it can never fulfil each and every reader’s personal vision for the characters and setting.
There are many films that have won major awards that are based on books, such as:
. No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
. The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
. Twilight – Stephanie Meyer
. The Green Mile – Stephen King
A lot of people who were fans of the film often buy the book to learn more and possibly draw their own conclusions from the original story, and this has become such a popular way of looking at things that many films are now advertised as being “based on the novel by…”, so helping book fans to find the film version, and film fans to find the book.
It is easy to find books of your favourite films, simply look online and browse through the wide range of books that online bookstores offer. There are books available from all different genres, for both adults and children, so whatever films you are into, there is something for everyone.
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