Book to Movie

[ThaKladd]

It's fun to discuss how books allways are better than the movie....

but is there someone that have read the book and seen the movie that thinks the movie is better than the book???

I have not found any yet... at least no book I have read that is also made a movie form... This does not mean that the movie is no good, the movies are often very good... but not as great as the book...

Books I have read, and seen the movie:

Sophies World by Jostein Gaarder - the book is better
Naria by C.S. Lewis - the books are better
Tarzan by by Edgar Rice Burroughs - the books are better
The Bible - The books is better
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain - the book is better
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - the book is better

hmm.. there is some book I have forgotten...
(that's why I cant remember more)

[Bobtheduck]

The books are better but the movies can compliment them. They can visually show someone elses vision of the book. It's much the same as talking about the books. And, for some stories that need to be told, they can be excelent tools to tell the story, and arouse interest in the story.

I personally like some aspects of Fellowship of the Rings movie better than I like it in the book...

[ThaKladd]

By the way... many fairytales(as snowwhite) is better as movies, because the story is not that long, copmlicated and detailed. The movie can give more detail, and not to mention the whole story - and make it actually more complicated by adding things.

so I must maybe reconsider the "I have not found any yet" thing... but then again.. a fairytale is not a book...

[cbwing0]

"The book was much better than the movie.
Oh really...Do you know what I liked about the movie? No reading. Just two hours and I was out of there" (Jim Gaffigan).

Generally, a book is better than its movie counterpart, but that is only a result of the readers. Everyone expects the movie to match their vision of the book, and thay are disappointed when it does not. Perhaps the movie leaves out a detail that they thought was especially important, or changes characters in various ways; so, if the movie is only judged in terms of faithfulness to the book, it will of course not be as good as the book.

Unfortunately, I can't think of any movie that I liked better than the book at the moment, but I will post again if I think of one.

[blueraven]

Books have always been better then movies to me. After reading a book I get my own impressions how things are and if I see the movie its almost as if they only took names and settings *shrug* but thats just me maybe. I always try and picture everything I read or hear of and if it doesn't match with what I see, well I don't like what I see. But, and yes there is a but, I must say sometimes it is a bit easier to understand in come cases to see the movie andthen read the book. But thats just opinion and with me learning better visually but thats just with school

[Staci]

Personally, books bettered movies on a regular basis. However, there stands one movie that follow the book word-for-word (minus one chapter).

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. The cartoon dialogue was taken directly from the book.

Aaaaaaaah, fond childhood memories... *~_~*

[ThaKladd]

Ey.. That is not the only movie

Romeo And Juliet (with leonardo dicaprio) is also based at the same thing. They say every line as Shakespeare wrote it, exept that the location is moved from Verona in Italy to Verona beach in USA, and The time is moved from 17th centry(or when it was written?) to modern time. They use word as "sword" but they made the name of Guns to Sword, so it would fit the language to Shakespeare, and stuff like that. It's very funny, but still I think that the original is better brcause thne you have to imagine the beauty of Juliet(and yopu girls: the beauty of Romeo) instead... Instead of thinking how they fought you se they shoot at eachother.

anyway... another movie Ive seen that Iæve also read the book to:

Mio in the Land of Faraway by Astrid Lindgren - The book was better, but the movie was very good too!!

[Bobtheduck]

That's because R+J is a play, not a book. The dialogue and motion is set up in the writing allready, and shakepear is revered so much that it can be done identical to the original play.

[ThaKladd]

play, book... its almost the same.. its a story.. but you'r right... its easier to make a movie from a play than from a book if you want to use the same dialogues..

[spiritusvult]

Generally I would agree with you all, in that books are better than movies. However, I believe that the movie "Blade Runner" was at least as good as the book on which it was based, "Do Anderoids Dream of Electric Sheep." The same goes for Dune. In the latter case though, the two were very different, and must almost be taken as seperate entities.

[Locke]

instead of watching the movie i buy the book instead.

example: Oceans 11, book way better than movie
The Hunt For Red October, *insert own opinion here*

does this extend to manga and anime as well?

[Kisa]

Books tend to be better, but the movie is good to get people to read the books. I like imagining what things are when reading the books and then seeing if it adds up in the movie. (ex. LOTR) Books of course tend to be more acurate if the were written BEFORE the movie and not FOR the movie.

[ThaKladd]

you have a point... but are there books written for a movie??

Movies is fun... but mostly movies is so fun that you don't even think about reading the book afterwards.... When a movie is as good as for example LOTR, that they wake up so much interrest in you that you want to read the book also. That make the movie good.

often the movie say "based on the novel" or somethin like that on the cover... that also is a thing that can help people to also read the book when they know there is a book.

[Kisa]

there are some books that come out after the movie and all just for the people who don't like movies and rather read the story, y'know? I personally wouldn't read the book in that respect unless it was one I really liked.

[ThaKladd]

"I am Dina" - seen the movie and read parts of the book - the book seems better.