Island Of Lost Souls Movie And Book Comparison Essay

In the comparison between The Island of Lost Souls and “The Island of Dr. Moreau, there is a clear use of close adaptation. Desmond and Hawkes say, “A film is a close adaptation when most of the narrative elements in the literary text are kept in the film” (Desmond and Hawkes 44). There is a clear use of close adaptation in the scene where Edward Pendick meets someone on the island. The people that Edward meets when he is on the island are all bestial. In the novel, Edward meets a lady named M’Ling and in the film he meets a servant named Lota. This scene is the same, but different names are being used. In the film, The Island of Lost Souls, Edward and his crew arrive on an island and are greeted by Captain Davies. Captain Davies is captain

The big issue with this is that neither movie goers or people that read the books are not satisfied. They are not satisfied because their favorite scene from the book doesn’t happen in the movie or vice versa. They always want the movie and the novel to be alike. An example of a movie and a novel being a like would be Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. This movie is a “close adaptation partly because J.K. Rowling, the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series, knew that she had a loyal readership, and so in selling the film rights, she stipulated that the film stay close to the Potter text, even insisting on her approval of the director and the actors” (Desmond and Hawkes 44). J.K. Rowling continued to release the rights the of her books to be made into a movie because her readers were so happy with it. In order for the audience to like the movie as much as the book, you have to make sure it is close to the book. Desmond and Hawke say, “In talking about adaptations, it seems natural enough to talk about the author of the text and the director of the film as equivalent” (Desmond and Hawkes 44). The author of a book and the director of the film are the same because they both create