Movie Adaptations - Nileena




Books and movies are my two loves. They open up a world of 
imagination and storytelling. To me, book-to-movie is a literary form of art. Books and movies are two different medium. Books are verbal and use words to tell a story where films are visual and rely on the images to do the telling.
‘Which is better- books or movies?’ is an age old debate topic. As a person who loves to read books and watch movies, I have always felt that reading books is much better than watching movies. Reading books let you imagine the settings and incidents. It brings out the creativity in you. On the other hand movies skip out the details in book.


Books will always be the best, but there are a few movies that take the cake compared to the text. From my personal experience, most book to movie adaptations tend to fall short in a lot of areas and take enormous creative liberties. However that being said, the most important part in an adaptation of a book for me is that the movie has to capture the feelings and spirit of the book. I generally don’t mind if they diverge a little from the plot of the book, as long as the end result is that it gives the same vibe and emotional reaction. A good example of this is ‘The Fault in Our stars’. It deviated in little ways and cut some of the good scenes, but the overall adaptation still gave me the same reaction as the book did.


The most obvious point would be that the duration of a movie can be a maximum of 3 hours so it is not easy to show every detail written in a novel. And people fall in love with the details. Another reason is the changes in character made in the movies. For example, in Harry Potter book series, Harry was sassy, funny, oblivious yet caring and helpful while being passionate till the very end. While the movies portrayed the best qualities of Harry, the failed to show his less popular side.


Our session on ‘Movie Adaptations’, came across about big screen versions of our favourite books which have managed to preserve their essence, even introducing the original tastes on new audiences.

A few ‘Book –to-movie adaptations ‘for you to read and watch till next Sunday:
-Vanka by Anton Chekhov ( Russian short story)( Malayalam  movie ‘ottaal’)
-The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
-The Fault in our stars by John Green
-The Great Gatsby by  F. Scott Fitzgerald
-The Perks of being Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
-Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

 Read, Share , create- Until next Sunday!

 - Nileena Ravi

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