Comments on: The Movie or the Book

By: Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:23:40 +0000

There’re now famous film series such as Harry Porter & Lord of the Rings.
In case of people who firstly watch the film instead of books, they tend to read a book to know more details.

We could take a look at the good examples on Harry Porter.
Surely series of Harry Porter was popular for children in UK.
However, as it made into films in 1999 for the first time, its popolarity has been spread to worldwide.

Becuase there’s a characters being alive in the films so that children can be into them.

By: fatima

fatima — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:08:13 +0000

Lucy, you are soooo right!!!

so many times I have wished to have an eraser and can rub out my mind..

I hate unwelcome faces and voices slipping in my head when I read (or reread) a good book with a poor movie.. and I don´t like either when I see an unsuitable actor playing a good character..

By: bar jazzy

bar jazzy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:15:21 +0000

first i want to say that it is almost impossible to Hollywood to unable making a kind of film, in this case, based on best selling books, for example. however, i sometimes feel disappoint and dissatisfied when the movie based on novel is not really what the book wrote. the film sometimes dismiss any parts of the book or even change. therefore, the film based on novel will be incomplete compare to the book, in this case if at first i had read the book. however the good film is, the novel version will be much more better.

salam from Indonesia

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:39:08 +0000

I cannot believe my eyes, forum discussion is still on.

keep going folks;the more the merrier.

I firmly believes comments brighten up the Blog

By: emiliano

emiliano — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:53:19 +0000

I read “The Lord of the Rings” more than 25 years ago, and it was one of my favorite books along the years. My daughter Eva wanted to read it with only 10 years old and I told her it was a very large book to read for her, but she insisted so much that at the end I said to her go on….thinking she would be tired very soon. Nothing more far from the reality as she read the first, asked for the second and afterward the third. In fact she was ready to read only with three years old and she was always anxious to read more and more.
I think always it was nearly impossible to make a good film with such a book, so long, so incredible good and with so many stories simultaneously.
But I failed, and I think the three films are as a climb to The Everest and it was necessary too much love for the books of all the team that made the three movies.
Thank you Peter Jackson, and thank you all great actors that assumed so perfectly well the roles of Gandalf, Saruman, Bilbo, Aragorn, Sam, Frodo…..and every one of them.
I have seen the movies five or six times and will do again. Cuca didn´t read the book before, but after she saw the first films she wanted to read the book and did it.
Now if I asked her do you want to see Lord of……once more? sure she would said YES.
Eva my daughter didn´t like so much the films as I did, may be she was absolutely fascinated with the books and her imagination as a child was too much bigger than mine.

By: gul

gul — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:02:12 +0000

hi lucy,.
i do agree with you that movie adaptations are a complete fiasco, but still i ve seen many of the movie adaptations. among all of them one which really captured my attention was lord of the rings, which is very excellently made. the one which can be called a completee disaster is off course da vinci code.

By: Patricia Mendes

Patricia Mendes — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:07:15 +0000

Hi dear Lucy,

I agree with you and I feel the same way about screen adaptations. When I saw Harry Potter (all from series) and Da Vince Code, I felt me disappointed. It seems that you captured my feelings correctly. There are two big problems: time contraints and replacing the pictures I’ve formed in my mind about the book with those on the screen. I really hate it. Sometimes I think if I were a writer I would not allow a screen adaptations about my books, because it kills the books, takes its sound. When you’re reading you traveling in the story, you create characters and places and faces etc… Suddenly the movie come in and destroy your dreams. Maybe there are exceptions but I don’t know. Reading some comments above, I read one where the guy said the Forrest Gump is a exception, really, the movie is wonderful, but on other hand, I didn’t read the book…hehehehehehehe….congratulations for your excellent topic Lucy!

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:06:53 +0000

Work past: When you cannot get past sth like Lucy does . You work on it and try to resolve and to move on. We call the whole process “work past.”

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:37:41 +0000

Cross words: When one says something and the second party says something in response to what the first party initially uttered.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:17:39 +0000

Finally ,I got a chance to go through my blog mates’ point of view , and cross words( joking) about the topic in hand.

Folks,I personally think the screen adoption ( thanks lucy) of a book is some how a variation of the book. It is how a director ,or a screen player sees and interprets a book to entertain us ,not religiously send us the message that the author wrapped subtly in words.And, my friends, It is what movies are all about, to give us the fun we expect of . They are intended to entertain us ,to lure us into a dark room,and above all to cash us out. Just tell me how many of us spend time and money to go watch a film ( art type kind of movies,thanks Jeff),almost none, unless you are a film critic or student. Books ,on the other hands, act merely as agents who represent the true character of their authors and the message they are trying to get across. So,I guess,what we have in mind at the time we pick up a relatively pricey book from a book store differs totally from the time we spend a couple of quids( slang for pound) on a movie ticket.