Lemonade Mouth Book Vs Movie Essay

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Ha Nguyen
Lemonade Mouth
It is very common to see novels being adapted into films. Whether if the films stayed true to the novels or not, it’s depend on the directors and their targeted audiences. Lemonade Mouth was made into a movie by Disney in 2011 where they their targeted audiences were children while the book Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes targeted audiences were young adults. Since Lemonade Mouth was made into a movie by Disney, some contents that were in the book were either changed or erased in the film in order for it to be appropriate for Disney targeted audiences. The movie maybe better for children due to the fact that it has been filtered and censored while the book was better for young adults because it has more details and that it was more relatable due to the fact that it has more mature contents that young adults could relate with.
First, “the change demanded by a new medium. For instance, film and literature each have their own tools for manipulating narrative structure” (Adaptation: From Novel). For example, the book was told in a series of first person narratives where readers will get to …show more content…

In both the book and the movie, Mo starts out dating one of the players in their school popular boyband, Mudslide Crush. While in the movie Mo broke up with Scott due to the fact that she saw him flirting with another girl and in the book Mo broke up with Scott because she saw him kissing another girl. In the book, the readers were able to see how much Mo has grown into a strong independent woman from what she started out as. While in the movie, Mo changes were not focused and we haven’t seen a lot of changes from her. The biggest differences between the movie and the book was that in the movie she had gotten back together with Scott, while in the book we’ve seen that she had finally gotten over Scott and now is dating

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