A Comparison of Adaptations from Books to Movies We love watching movies especially when we’re together with our friends and family. A movie is interesting when it’s an adaptation of our favorite books, and it’s more entertaining when it has a famous actor or actress as one of the main characters or the leading lady. And because of that, people would prefer to watch a movie than to read a book. Although movie adaptations are entertaining and fun to watch, books are more immediate, more convenient and more detailed. There are plenty of reasons why the book is better than the movie adaptation. One of these is books are more immediate, because it is consistent and it is easy to understand. Books are consistent, because authors and writers alike …show more content…
Why? Because one, it’s cheaper. Yes, books costs more than a thousand pesos, but it stays with the owner for a very long time. The reader can decide when he or she’ll read it and they can keep it until they want to read it again. And there’s this aesthetic feeling every time a book or an old book is opened. The movie’s advantage is it only costs 150 pesos or more, compared to the book’s cost. And yes, there is a website where people can find and download these movies for free, but it isn’t always certain that the movie itself will have a good quality. And that a person has to wait for two months or more, depending on how early the DVD or Blu-Ray of the movie is released. It is known that the longer the movie is still demanded in theaters, the longer the wait for the release of its DVD or Blu-Ray. And, it does not mean that the movie is safe from being deleted from the laptops or other devices, as it sometimes needs 1 GB storage. Next books are convenient because, they last longer than movies, according to an article titled “Top Ten Reasons Why Books are better than Movies”. No matter how many times the book is revised, it will always have the same moral of the story. While movies change in different adaptations, or also known as a “Reboot” depending on how the director sees or visualize the story of the book, and it also depends on how the scriptwriter summarizes …show more content…
According to an online debate titled, “Are Movies Better than Books?”, one of these disadvantages of books that are stated is, it is not environmentally friendly. Because it uses papers and papers comes from trees. Once the manuscript is approved by the publisher, it is then printed to create numerous copies for the public to read. But with the generation of technologies, books can be electronic also known as E-books. It can be saved on laptops or in our phones. Another disadvantage is, not applicable to all. But as it is said in the previous disadvantage of books, there is an application to help them out, for example an audio book, where the app reads the story for them. And we can always research deep words for its meaning in the dictionary or the internet, but there are some people who are too lazy to do that and would prefer the words to be simple. But that does not give justice as to why books were created; because the deeper the words that are used, the more the brain is challenged to learn a whole new vocabulary. And according to Lana Winter-Hebert in her article titled “10 Benefits of Reading: Why You Should Read Every Day”, reading a book is beneficial to the health as it lowers the progress of Alzheimer’s and Dementia, since it makes the brain active and engaged; improving the memory, strengthening analytical and thinking skills, improves focus and concentration and it reduces
In my opinion there are a lot of comparisons between the film and the book, but there are also differences between them too, but also they have impacted the audience in both the film and the
Books and movies are two completely different mediums in which audiences can enjoy a story. They seem different when one thinks about it, and it is true. Numerous points come to mind when we contrast a volume and its featured motion picture. However, both have several similarities than neutralize the differences. Take The Outsiders for instance, a novel by author S.E. Hinton in 1967 that was turned into a film in 1983.
In the movie Nightjohn directed by Charles Burnett their were many differences than the book Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen. The differences are minimal and sometimes would not even be noticed. Most movies would be very boring if they would be the same as the book. In the book all the characters are different than they are in the movie. One character is Mrs.Waller the wife of Clel Waller.
Many people, if asked what they would prefer, would prefer to read the book instead of watching the movie. It could be because the movie will always leave some parts from the story out. It seems like directors of the movie always leave out parts from the book, only incorporating the important parts from the story. Some also say that they prefer to leave the descriptions of things in the book up to their imagination. Also, when you are reading the book, you get to read the main characters point of view on things.
The Devil’s Arithmetic Book vs. Movie Essay The book and movie versions of The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen both had many pros and cons. However, the more preferable version goes to the book. The book had far more interesting and suspenseful moments. With the book having better characters, scenes, and themes, there is no point in arguing which adaptation of The Devil’s
For example, in the book, when Inigo and Fezzik visit they have to go through many hardships in the Zoo of Death. Arabian Garstini, a very dangerous snake, is one of the animals in the Zoo of Death. Suddenly it starts coiling around them “and the fourth coil, the final coil, [coils around their] throat” which is terrifying. This builds a lot of tension and causes the readers to really get involved in the story. But, in the movie, there is no Zoo of Death and Fezzik and Inigo easily go inside the Pit of Despair.
There are many simularities and differences in the book and movie " The
A major difference is that there are some characters that were in the book that aren't in the movie like Flora Baumbach, Theo Theodorakis, and Madame Hoo. Even though the movie wasn’t as good or as exciting as the book, they were both interesting and are fun to read and listen
The Learning of The Holocaust The book Night by, Wiesel represented the holocaust. The book was a great way of expressing facts but it was hard for me to really see it. I think that the movie, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas explained the holocaust much more efficiently, and had a better understanding of emotion and gave the watcher a better visual for better comprehension.
Have you ever watched a movie based on a book that told the exact same story? To me, for some reason, books always seem to be the better one out of the two. I feel that in novels, the author develops the story with as many details as possible, while in movies that aspect doesn’t appear in the same way. There aren’t as many details in films since it has to last for a certain amount of time, but books can last for as many pages as the author would like them to. When I read, the fascinating novel “Beowulf,” I really enjoyed how the author made me use my imagination to create a picture of the world that the characters were living in.
There are details left out of the movie that were in the book, the movie doesn 't demonstrate the ongoing theme of hunger as well as the book does, and the the movie does a better job with
Books and movies have been around for many years and lately movie directors have been making more and more movies based off of books. Most people do not know that around 50% of movies are based off of books. Although, it really depends on what people mean when a movie is “based” off a book. Some directors say a movie is based off a book, but has a different plot and seems totally different. So, in order to keep true to the book, directors keep the plot relatively the same, but there are a few times they decide to change the message entirely by changing just a few key events.
In addition to that, the main characters themselves show differences in their way of acting. For example, Chief Bromden appears in the book to be someone quite clever despite his mental illness. He fakes being deaf to spy on others and his thoughts are logical most of the time. In the movie, he just looks like a fool who doesn’t know what is going on half of the time. The only words he can say are “juicy fruit”, whilst in the book he speaks normally towards the end of the story.
I enjoyed the movie better than the book. It included just the right amount of action scenes, description words, and details from the story. The story was amazing but I like seeing things more than reading them. I usually like the movies better than the book.
It is like this that books expand our knowledge, conception and consciousness of the world around us. You may say that nowadays there are other ways to do that, like the TV or Google, but books allow you to experience the same story form your own perspective, values, ideas and from your own feelings. Through reading, you introduce yourself to new things, new information, and even new ways to solve a problem. Secondly, reading helps us to