Car Scene
Many novels have been adapted into films. It gives the readers a solid picture rather than leaving it up to their imagination. One very famous example of this is The Hunger Games series. The iconic novel written by Suzanne Collins follows Katniss, a girl who volunteered to be in the brutal killing competition her country puts on every year called The Hunger Games. The series consists of three novels, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay. It also consists of four movies The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1 and Mockingjay Part 2. As in any novel that becomes a movie some things are changed. Some scenes are taken out, some are added in, and some are altered from the novel. One scene that is taken out of the movie, is when the mayor’s daughter Madge gives Katniss the mockingjay pin that
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Many fans thought that it was unnecessary to take out and that the scene was important to the story. Some scenes in the movie however, were added in. One example of this is the scene where president Snow and one of the Gamemakers are talking in the garden. The book was from Katniss’ point of view so the reader only got her perspective, but in the movie they changed it and the viewer got to see things from other perspectives. This scene was an important change because it showed president Snow as the ultimate villain and set up his character. Scenes are changed from the novel to the movie, sometimes it turns out better and sometimes it turns out worse. Another iconic novel that become a movie was Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club. The novel was released in August of 1996 and the movie was released on October 15, 1999. Both the novel and movie follow an insomniac who meets an entrepreneur and together they start a fighting empire. There are many scenes from the novel that were changed in the movie. One of the best scenes that was changed is the scene where Tyler is
driving a car and the car flips. This scene was in both the novel and movie however it was changed a lot in the movie version. In the novel the mechanic was driving and the car didn’t flip over. The mechanic was swerving into the oncoming lane and was asking things like "what will you wish you'd done before you died?" However, in the movie Tyler was driving and the car was flipped. In the movie Tyler was driving and the Narrator was in the passenger side. Tyler hit a parked car and their car flipped and went into a ditch. When they were getting out of the car after the crash Tyler came out of the passenger side and the Narrator came out of the driver’s side. The way they did it in the novel had less impact than the movie. In the novel having the mechanic drive didn’t give the full effect of Tyler coming out of the Narrator. However, in the movie since they had Tyler driving it gave more of the effect that he was actually there. Also in the movie they showed Tyler getting out of the passenger side and the Narrator getting out of the driver’s side. This gave the feeling that Tyler was not real and it was really the Narrator driving the whole time even though they showed Tyler driving and the Narrator in the passenger seat. The way it was done in the movie is far better than how it was in the novel. It has a bigger impact when it can be seen rather than just read and left to the imagination of the reader. They did a good job at implying that Tyler was just a figment of the Narrator’s imagination but not outright saying it. They had subtle hints throughout the movie but didn’t ever outright say it. They used the shots in a clever way and in a way that made sense. The movie was better than the novel because the viewer was able to see how Tyler was coming out and also make the connection that he wasn’t really there. It gives it a more personal feel when people see it for themselves rather than just reading it and letting their imagination run wild.
Sometimes in movie production a film is developed from a piece of literature. Directors will use the plot of a book either to create a unique movie, or to give the audience a chance to see what their favorite book is like when acted out on the screen. Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" is a good example of a work adapted to video. The movie has slight differences from the book, but the director Lamont Johnson follows the original closely.
Many novels are transcribed from their original texts to films. Some of the movies are similar to the original plots, others do not follow the authors work. Alice Hoffman’s novel Practical Magic is altered when it is made into a movie; and Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible which was also made into a movie, was extremely similar to his original writing. There are multiple variables that account for how a movie is made some of them include; the amount of income, how much can be changed, and the author’s approval. The two recreations previously mentioned, have two completely different outcomes, the results all depend on the amount of creative licensing the movie company has.
Usually movies try to take the story to a different level or by adding parts or just try to change it to a completely different story. Some of the differences between the movie as to the book are some little and large differences. They might also try taking little parts away that will change how the readers see the story characters. An example of that would be Walter not smoking in the movie (Pg 115). Walter usually smokes because he is stressed or just as a way to relax. Walter also does not get punched by Mam...
What really shocked me about a part that was left out in the movie was when Jem was punished to go help and understand Mrs. Dubose as a punishment. After Mrs. Dubose harassed Jem and Scout, he got tired of it and took out his anger on her most precious thing, her garden. I thought this was very important to the book and would be essential to the movie as well. This was one of the scenes that showed us that Jem was indeed “growing up.” It also introduced us to Dubose’s addiction to morphine and her attempt to stop and be, courageous, as Atticus said. I actually, after all the differences, believe this is the most important scene that was not in the movie.
A movie-adaptation is the transfer of a written work. The most common form of a movie-adaptation is the use of a novel, such as the book "Persepolis", written by Marjane Satrapi, written as a childhood memoir. The story is about a young Marjane growing up in Iran during the Shah dynasty, Iranian Revolution, and Iran-Iraq war during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Not only did Marjane Satrapi wrote the novel, but she also directed the film about the book. Sadly, the work of a movie-adaptation doesn't always include every details mentioned and sometimes add details not included from the text, which includes Persepolis the movie. The author omitted several events from the movie that happened in the book, including the whole first chapter of the novel. Overall, I enjoyed the novel more than the movie, because the movie omitted scenes from the book and it was less accurate from the text.
Due to production costs and financial restrictions, the director and screenplay writer can never fully reproduce an entire literary work into a screen version. With the complications of time restriction in major motion pictures, a full-length novel is compacted into a two-hour film. This commonly leads to the interference in the sequence of events, alternation of plots and themes, and the elimination of important characters or events. But the one true adversary of novel-based films is Hollywood fabrication. Producers, directors, and playwrights add or eliminate events and characters that might or might not pertain to the storyline for the sake of visual appeal, therefore defacing the author’s work.
...ioned in the book are missing from the movie, such as Georgina's boyfriend Wade. The endings are also different, the original novel's ending is much less clear and ambiguous than the movie's ending, which wraps up nicely (Geller). The movie was not very faithful to the original source material, but because of the way the original novel was written some changes had to be made in order to make a coherent film.
One would think that it would be quite easy to adapt a novel to a screenplay; after all, what is there to do but turn the dialogue into lines and description into set design? However, common sense, aided by the horrifying number of absolutely awful adaptations, dictates that it simply is not that easy. When moviegoers have problems with a film adaptation of a book, their complaints tend to lie in the tendency of the creators of the film to change elements of the story: plot, character, and the like. It would seem, then, that the best way to make a successful adaptation of a novel would be to just stay as true as possible to every detail mentioned in the book. However, staying as true as possible to plot points, character type, and the like may be the best way to a horrendous adaptation.
From a structural perspective, movies and novels appear as polar opposites. A film uses actors, scripts, and a set in order to create a visual that can grab and keep the attention of their viewers. However, an author strives to incorporate deeper meaning into their books. Despite these differences in media, 1984 and The Hunger Games present unique, yet similar ideas.
Novels may contain more details or different information than a film contains. This could be because of the ratings a movie could receive depending on what they involve. Because of this, there could be deleted scenes or less detail about certain events. The Catching Fire film and novel have many important similarities and differences. By comparing and contrasting the Hunger Games novel and film, one can see that the film was effective in conveying some themes, and was not effective in conveying others.
The film that was produced after the novel has a lot of differences and not as
The Mockingjay, written by Suzanne Collins, is an extraordinary book to read, and the movie is just as enjoyable. The Mockingjay is part of the Hunger Games series. After Katniss escapes the arena in book 2, the Rebels travel to District 13 to try to overthrow the capitol. Both parts of the movie and the book are heartwarming, adventurous, and intense, but have many similarities and differences. There are some differences but many more similarities.
For example in the movie, Meg Murry, the main character had a bully named Veronica. She was never in the book and the book was fine without her which made her existence in the movie irrelevant. Also, beast was never in the movie but in the book. They even went as far as to changing the setting of scenes. When the kids met the red eyed man in the book on page 127, they met in the Central Intelligence Building but in the movie they met the red eyed man in a crowded beach. This proves the story is better because the movie mixed up and switched a lot of the events that left us thinking how irrelevant these events and characters are. The movie would be fine without the extra characters they added and how they changed the settings because the book was fine without it as
Many stories and novels are created into films, but it is not easy. Stories often rely heavily on the narrator, but films don’t typically have one. While film gives you direct visuals, books give you the opportunity to make up your own; a film takes away your own visual interpretation. Also, film has certain limits, such as time, interaction with the imagination, and the need to collaborate with certain people. It is common for a book to film adaptation to have the downside of not having all of the details from the story, but it isn't the filmmaker's job to adapt the story word for word, they use their own vision. Sometimes, it is necessary for some things to be changed, maybe to “highlight new themes, emphasize
There are a lot of stories in the world floating from person to person. One short tale can can give a writer the inspiration for a whole series of novels or movies. Take “Theseus and the Minotaur” and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins for example. The ideas are similar in many ways, The Hunger Games story just modernizes them. In an interview with Suzanne Collins, she told us her inspiration for writing the film. She says, “It’s very much based on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, which I read when I was eight years old… In her own way, Katniss is a futuristic Theseus. But I didn’t want to do a labyrinth story. So I decided to write basically an updated version of the Roman gladiator games.” The Hunger Games retells the myth of “Theseus and the Minotaur” by expressing fake love, portraying the main characters as heroic figures, and using the archetypal example of fire.