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Apply this picture to a film adaptation of a book you have read. Be specific in your analysis. If you see that a classmate already selected the book you were going to use, reply to that classmate and add your own insights. Agree/ disagree with each other respectfully.
You may certainly have more than one post if you have multiple books to discuss.
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Faith Finan
2/20/2014 01:40:35 pm
Well the book I read, My Sisters Keeper, by Jodi Piccoult applies to this picture.(without ruining the book/ movie) One major thing that can be related to this picture is they changed the ending of the book. For those of you who have read the book and seen the movie you can relate. The whole point of that ending was to show the overall message of the book, and it made the movie predictable. They also left out very important characters. In the book the brother of the main characters, Kate and Anna, was not given as big of a role as he was in the book. In the book he was always getting into trouble, and was seen as the child trying to get attention in the only way which was negatively. He barely got to speak in the movie which made me so upset. They left so many things out of the film that changed the whole idea and central message of her book. Films leave out so many important scenes and ideas that books have, and it almost always makes the movie worse than the book.
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Maria Bohan
2/22/2014 08:44:41 am
Most of the time, when I go out and see a movie that is based off a book I've read or am passionate about, I spend about three-quarters of the it criticizing it or whispering, "What?! When did that happen?! What about ________?" (There are numerous people who can vouch for me on this.) The reason for this, I think, is that film-making and novel-writing are totally different fields. If every scene in a book were put into a movie, it would take an excrutiating amount of hours to truly get the point of the book across, and no one would sit there through the whole thing (except maybe true fans, of course). So, there are sacrifices that have to be made…except sometimes, the wrong things are sacrificed. The other day I watched the movie Vampire Academy, based off the book Vampire Academy, which I read and was pleasantly surprised by. Although the movie did a good job of educating the people who hadn't read the book in the ways of the character's supernatural world, I felt like there were some aspects they just weren't able to capture. In this picutre, the "film" portion is a tiny part on top of the water, while the "book" portion is a large part deep within the water, which I interpret as meaning that books go into much greater detail and delve into the truths of life and the world more than a movie ever could. In Vampire Academy, the main character, Rose Hathaway, has a spiritual bond connection with her best friend, Lissa, a royal Moroi (which is a speical species of vampire). As a member of the Dhampir species, Rose has a mandate to protect Lissa with her life. (I really hope I'm not being confusing with all the crazy terms here.) This spiritual bond, however, is only one way, meaning that Rose is always burdened with the feelings--both good and bad--of Lissa. In the novel, it's mostly the bad feelings that Rose is on the receiving end of, when Lissa has a bit of a mental crisis. In the novel, the reader understood the pressure that Rose was under, knowing that her friend was in a terrible place and trying to do whatever she could to help her, but not being able to do or say anything that would make a difference. The reader also knew how much Rose cared about her friend, but sometimes almost wished that Lissa didn't put all of her problems on her. Many times in the novel, Lissa would think that Rose would make everything okay, and although that faith in her friend was heartwarming, it was also wrong of her to burden Rose with all of that. In the movie, we never heard anything about these feelings Rose had that played such a pivotal part in the novel, which dissappointed me. This shows how in movies, although the more concrete parts can be captured, sometimes the emotions and underlying themes can get lost in translation.
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Caitlin Holt
4/6/2014 07:04:10 am
This summer, I sacrilegiously watched a movie based on a book, without reading the book first. The book, City of Bones, is the first installment in the 6 book long Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare (which is now one of my all time favorite series). The movie version of this first novel, produced by Constantin Film, ended as most series movies do: with a cliffhanger. The movie was a decent portrayal of yet another supernatural love story. So I went into reading the books, figuring they were just another group of sappy, yet semi-heartwarming YA books. I could not have been more wrong. The books are really about so much more than half-angel humans fighting demons in New York City and trying to save all of humanity. They are about finding the place where you belong, even if it isn't where other people want you to be. They challenge how far you can truly 'follow your heart'. They show that your past is a part of you that you can never truly escape from. Despite the fact that the movie's trailer says, "There is only so long you can hide from the truth," this important concept doesn't come across in the movies nearly as much as it does in the books either. For example, in the books the villain, Valentine, turns out to be heroine Clary Fray's father. He then tells her love-interest, Jace, that the two of them are siblings, claiming he is Jace's father as well. The two of them spend the next book and a half wrestling with their feelings for one another in an eerily Oedipus-like way. Eventually, in book 2, City of Ashes, it comes out that they are NOT siblings after all. Throughout this roller coaster ride, we see that you really can't hide from the truth. In the movie, villain Valentine tells one of his evil minions and the audience that Clary and Jace are not siblings, before he lies and tells Jace that they are siblings. This completely obliterates this theme from the books. Complicated to keep up with? Certainly! But whether you were able to follow this ridiculously complex tale or not, the Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones is a prime embodiment of that image of a glacier. Often times, the characters and setting of books and movies look similar, but it is the deeper and more important underlying themes of the book that are often made irrelevant in the movie.
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