Books Into Movies

There has always been some debate over which was better, the book or the movie? Whenever a movie comes out that was based on a book people start the debate and most of the time everyone has their own solid opinoin. People may not like the movie because it didn't live up to the standards of what the book was for them. When you read a book you make up the characters in your head and you play out how everything would go while you read. When your imagination is turned into cinema, you may end up being dissapointed because a movie cannot be as complex as a book and can't get into all the detail a book can.

For example, a lot of people say they dislike the Harry Potter movies because they are completely inaccurate to the books. Some parts of that is true because the movie doesn't go into a lot of the behind the scenes information like the book did. A movie can't be four hours long so the writers unfortunetely have to cut out what they believe would be ok to cut out. Although it really does importantly pertain to the books, if you were following only the movies, you wouldn't know any better.

I believe that people should watch the movie and start to see it as something they hadn't read about, or they could just relate the movie to the book and just know that the details did happen and just watch the movie knowing the left out material did occur, but in the book. People should just know that when a movie about a book comes out, it most likely will never be as good or the same as the book beause literature and cinema are two completely different subjects. When the movie comes out, you should view it with an open mind and judge it by how well the actor's portrayed the roles they were given with the screenplay, not by how the character in the book would act.

Comments

[Ben Miller]

I really like the idea of going in to watching a movie with a more open mind so that there is room for some imaginative inteppretation. I like what you are arguing and I really like the point you made about there not being enough time in a movie to capture everything in the book.

[Mike]

Yeah, I get what your saying, a lot of people don't think this way. Good blog.

[Seth P.]

That's true about movies never being able to tell the full story that the books told. If they were to do this, the movie would be incredibly long, and when they don't include everything, it seems like stuff is left out. This unsolvable problem is one of many reasons movies cannot compete with books.