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Why do people make movies based on books?
Established popular books are a comparably faster and data-supported way for studios to develop film and TV plots. As more studios compete to have the next Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead, it’s easier to turn to a completed work and fully envisioned (and beloved) world than to develop a story in-house.
Adaptations are used to creatively expand from the original idea in a new way. Adaptations take a work made in one medium and uses parts and pieces of this work to structure a new work in a different medium that embodies some of the same principles of the original work so that a connection can be drawn.
Why is film adaptation so important?
Watching a film based on someone else’s interpretation of a popular story allows you to consider the attitudes and perspectives of others. Encouraging your child to analyse the film and reflect on the differences to the original story can, therefore, encourage the development of their social skills.
Do people prefer books over movies?
Overall, 34\% of people enjoyed the book, compared to 27\% of people who liked the movie more. However, only 5.6\% of people said they enjoyed the book. Following Tom Hanks’ movie was the Jurassic Park series with 74.8\%, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with 73.7\%, and the Harry Potter series with 70.1\%.
Do books lead to movie adaptations?
Books often lead to movie adaptations, and so much the better for sparking a fire toward both industries — if a movie gets more people to read, great; if avid readers get to see their beloved characters on the big-screen, that’s a boon too.
Do you need the movie to understand the book?
I don’t necessarily need the movie to throw up the same lines found in the book. I need it to adapt it to the movie’s flow and to each particular scene. The movie’s script should however be respectful of the source material by acknowledging the author’s intention.
Why do popular books inspire movies?
But popular books aren’t just indications of how successful the movies they inspire will be; more personally, those books are readers’ conduits to other lives and other worlds, lives and worlds informed by those readers’ own imaginations.
What does it mean when a movie decides to do something else?
To find out that the movie decided to do something else just means that they should have just created their own thing instead of basing it on a book. Do you know what that is? I’ll tell you.