Why the book version of a story is always better than the movie
Ever since I was younger I was obsessed with reading. The summer going into 7th grade I remember reading twenty-five books. It was my main source of entertainment. I read the Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner, City of Ember, Cinder, The One Series, Kingdom Keepers, Percy Jackson Series, and the Norse God Version. Though when I was done with a series I would be extremely disappointed when I would watch the movie version of these novels.
It makes sense that film writers can't include every single detail described in a novel, but some movie versions of novels are so horrid. One of the worst movie adaptions of a book that I saw was the Percy Jackson movie. Quite honestly I got second-hand embarrassment watching this movie adaption. From the character appearances, story plot, chronological order of events and the overall vibe was just off.
Movies are great and it is possible for them to convey a great plot to immerse the viewer, but books are much more effective in transporting the reading into the fictional world they read about. Therefore, I will always stick to the novel over the movie adaption.
The only book that was worse than the movie, in my opinion, has been the movie adaption of the Giver. But that is the only exception.
Do you like the movie or book version of stories?
Ok so I might be biased considering I don't read often, but when you read you don't get the visuals (i mean like real visuals, not the ones you imagine)
ReplyDeleteThat... that's the point!! If you watch the movie instead of reading the book, you don't GET to use your imagination. I just... I....
DeleteI know some people might prefer reading the book, but I feel like watching the movie just brings more emotion out of the audience and helps you fully step into what you are viewing. You almost feel like you're part of the story!
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I feel like this applies to all sorts of media being adapted to film, live action in particular. Look at the flood of live action remakes by Disney being cranked out for example. Even the ones that aren't necessarily bad just can't compare to the original. People act like live action films are somehow the apex of storytelling when time and time again we've seen other mediums do things that just don't work as well in film. The Giver is a great example of this if you've read it (SPOILERS AHEAD), one of the big shocking moments in the book is that the people in that community had the ability to see color taken away from them, and as readers you don't realize this until a character regains colored sight, the movie is just in black and white until this point of the story, which simply doesn't work as well.
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