Pros And Cons Of Film Adaptation

There are various arguments when it comes to film adaptation. People would give their praises as well as their critics. In many cases, audience who has read the book before rarely satisfy with the adaptation, because it did not come out as they expected. The quotation “A (film) director should be seen as a creator of an original work, not as someone who has adapted someone’s else work and whose film is thus constantly being compared to original text” is used as response to answer those critics. As for me, I both agree and disagree with the statement.

First of all, I agree because in the process of adaptation, the director has to do a lot of thinking to create a movie from a text. There are many lots of element that would fit greatly in text but not in movie, such as background story, characters’ thinking and character’s background. Therefore, the film director needs to create something to explain to the audience about it by using flashbacks or dialogues. When the director thinks about adding it to explain to audience, they also need to consider whether it will affect the whole story or whether it fits with the plot. For example, during our adaptation process, we do a lot of thinking about making the movie more sensible and explainable to the audience. We also had hard time thinking about the best way to explain the background story to the audience. Not only that, we also have to make sure that any changes that we made will not change the timeline of the story as this movie