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Book to Screen Adaptations
"Everybody says, 'What will this movie do to your book?'...The film is another translation, and at the same time, will have a fate of its own." -Frances Mayes
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I read the books of this series before seeing the movie as I always do with book to movie adaptions and have just seen the movie. I think they did quite well with it but I'm not sure it lived up to the books. They changed hair colours of Mrs Coulter, Lyra and even Serafina, small details that may not matter too much but is it hard to dye hair? Already that is beside the point as the actors playing the characters did a very good job and i think were well chosen. I was a bit disappointed that the cut a fair bit out, the movie wasn't long and they could have easily added more in without it...
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This spot was created to celebrate book-to-tv/film-screen adaptations. True, there is no way that a live version will ever live up to our imagination. And yes, there are hundreds of examples of how this formula can go wrong. But there are also hundreds of examples of how the formula can go right and astonish us with the magic of cinema, yet all too often these examples are forgotten -- and so this spot is to remind ourselves of both the good and the bad, and to discuss either.
A common criticism of book-to-screen adaptations nowadays is that filmmakers are seemingly relying too...
Check out Entertainment Weekly's "Read the Book: 23 Disappointing Movie Adaptations." It definitely brought back some very painful memories like Mike Myers' "Cat and the Hat," but I found it interesting.
David Benioff was sitting on a plane, having a perfectly pleasant conversation with an elderly passenger about his job as a screenwriter, when he mentioned that he was working on an adaptation of "The Kite ...
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