We all know
the fact that book-based movies are ninety nine percent of the time worse than the
book itself, because of many reasons: they are usually made only for commercial
purposes (they think that if the book has succeeded, a movie will bring a lot
of people to cinema, and that means dollars), they are made by people that don’t
know the real intentions that the book´s author wanted to express; and, most importantly,
they lack the complexity and possibilities
that only the reading can bring, by encouraging the reader´s imagination and
letting him picture the words in his mind.
In this
way, I think that, in some cases, it is necessary for the film-makers change
some aspects of the book in order to adapt the story into the big screen, but
the director has to have always in his mind that the changes must be as minimum
as he can, in order to show some respect to the original idea.
I think
that it´s not necessary to read the book before seeing the movie. In fact, if
you do this, mostly of time you will get disappointed, because the movie
probably will not has the quality that the book has. And I think that this is
the main reason by which these kind of movies are generally criticized as “bad
movies” by the audience. However, there are some cases in which the movie
overcomes the book, even if the movie is not related at all with the book. For
example, The Shining by Stanley
Kubrick is considered these days as a masterpiece of the horror movies, even when
in the beginning it was considered real garbage by the specialized audience.
Even Stephen King (the book´s author) was angry because the movie was not what
he was expecting. But I think that this only can happen with Kubrick in the
camera. Generally book based movies are real trash.
I agree when you say that commercial purposes are a reason for why this movies are so bad. I think that money and books shouldn't be mixed. It seem that everything that money touches became into something awful :(
ReplyDeleteThe truth is that I really like movies based on books,because they never represent the author, though just enjoy them much, but they are always thinking of different ideas, that is, different intentions. Although sometimes I watch movies without knowing they are books and is inevitably want read them, because I feel that are more fun.
ReplyDeleteI think the same, it is not necessary to read the book to watch a movie, because some time there are very different. If we don´t want to be disappointed, don´t expect the movie with the book in yours pillow
ReplyDeletereally excite me much more books that movies, I think they are much more detailed so you wrap more
ReplyDeleteI agree with the comments, are both different things (but anyway I prefer first read the book) ... and Kubrick is the master!!!!
ReplyDeleteIs very interesting your analysis about the reason of the book-based movies are worse than the book itself
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