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Showing posts with label movies based on books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies based on books. Show all posts

Friday, August 19, 2011

Book to Film adaptation: why they mess it up.

Many of us are familiar with Hollywood's infamous botchery of many classic and popular books. Many times a book may have an excellent storyline yet Hollywood pillages and rapes the story into something that little resembles the original masterpiece. I have three possible theories for this phenomenon.
  1. What makes a book's storyline great differs dramatically from what makes a movie's storyline great.
  2. The book's storyline may be too difficult to adapt to film as it is.
  3. The screenwriters, directors, and/or producers are fucked up.
I have read books that were expertly written and had excellent plots yet when I try to picture it as a film it just sucks. Some books will work while some will not. Think about it.