Movies from books..
@caroliewrites (205)
United States
December 10, 2007 12:37pm CST
I think just about everyone has read a book and then seen the movie Hollywood made from that book. (supposedly) This is true even with the classics. I love Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (for example). His writings are classic and music to my ears. Hollywood made one of his great novels into a Demi Moore movie a few years back. The Scarlet Letter. I'm not sure what the screenwriters and producers were thinking, if they were thinking at all. Perhaps they (being Hollywood and all) belived they could IMPROVE on Hawthorne's brilliant writing. Or, and I tend to belive this more than the latter, they neglected to read the book in the first place....or, and better yet, maybe they don't know how to read!! Whatever the reason I was frustrated and disappointed with the movie experience.
How about it mylotters? Any books you've read that were made into movies not even close to the original story line?
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@kurtbiewald (2625)
• United States
10 Dec 07
the movie was very different from the book
in the movie she was a stripper and the A means available
@caroliewrites (205)
• United States
10 Dec 07
Hi Kurt,
In the movie, The Stripper, Demi Moore plays a stripper. In The Scarlet Letter she plays Hester, and adultrous woman, hence the scarlet A.
Thanks for the response.
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@janette54 (6)
• United States
11 Dec 07
I think the most recent film adaptation is Beowulf. I saw the film and to me, it was not at all like the novel. Grendel and his mother were not like described in the novel and the ending was completely off. But then again I have also seen some great adaptations like Joe Wright's interpretation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. I guess it just depends on what the directors motives are, and they are usually money so of course they are going to go for a film with well known actors that will appeal to a modern audience.
@alamode (3071)
• United States
10 Dec 07
I tend to take each as its own entity... I may see a film because it carries the same name as a book I've read, but I know in advance that it won't be the way I understood and pictured the story while reading.
The classics are stories carved in stone... but interpretation is in the eye of the writer and/or director. In some ways film brings people to the classics who would never consider reading the books, so this does serve a purpose.
