| Novels that are dramatically different from the films
Posted: 11/3/2009 9:01:45 AM | Disney's adaption of ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN (1975) was very poor compared to the book. The book was very dark and the movie was very happy go lucky.
All the H.P. LOVECRAFT stories have translated poorly to the screen. | |
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| Novels that are dramatically different from the films
Posted: 11/3/2009 10:18:40 AM | Here is a question to ponder:
If you planned to make a film that was exactly like the novel, would you give the actors the novel as the script? Just curious. I know this deviates a little from the topic at hand. | |
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| Novels that are dramatically different from the films
Posted: 11/3/2009 10:40:54 AM | No, since I don't believe that movie-makers are TRYING to make the movies just like the novels. I believe they DO try to make entertaining movies (and sometimes fail).
Plus, actors should do what the director's vision says, not what THEY think is best. | |
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| Novels that are dramatically different from the films
Posted: 11/7/2009 10:51:04 AM | One of the reasons movies often fail to capture the essence of the book, is money. A writer can imagine things that would be prohibitiviely expensive
to translate onto film, in terms of special effects, etc.
One thing that I have noticed over the years, is that the movies that are truest to the original novels (generally, not always) are those where the
screenplay was written by the book's author. | |
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