And in some rare instances-get ready to clutch your pearls-I think the movie adaptation is better than the book. I think Fight Club is an excellent example of this. In some cases, the movies and the book stand as equals in my mind. In some cases, the book is better, and I have no shame saying that, and I will tell you to my voice is raw to read the damn book. I suppose all this is to say, just because a movie differs from a book doesn’t necessarily mean that’s a bad thing and I don’t think we can fault them for that and that alone, but I do enjoy examining those differences and thinking about why the creators made those choices and which I think works better. I definitely used to be more critical of a movie the more it differed from the book simply for the sake of it differing from the book, but as I’ve matured both as a human and an artist (at least I hope), I’ve grown to have a lot more respect for the fact that all artists are different and just because you’re interpreting a source material doesn’t mean your vision will manifest itself in precisely the same way the original author’s did-to say nothing of the respective limitations of different forms of media. Despite what it’s based on, at the end of the day, it is a separate piece of art. I’ve always loved watching films based on books and seeing how someone brings the work to the screen, but I think as I’ve gotten older, I’ve grown to have more appreciation for how the filmmaker interprets the work in their own way and brings their vision of the source material to life on the screen. (It certainly wasn’t heavily promoted as an adaptation.) I think it’s worth acknowledging, however, and worth delving into, because the novel is a very beautifully written, expansive work, and the movie-while faithful in many ways-is an interesting and, at times, successful interpretation of the original work.įirst things first, I feel compelled to dive a little bit into my perspective on book to movie adaptations. ![]() I’m not sure if it’s the change in title that has thrown people off or the fact that this novel didn’t seem to be one of the “popular” more cult following books that ends up on everyone’s social media everywhere and makes every magazine’s must read list so viewers and readers alike perhaps didn’t realize it was an adaptation. ![]() Instagram // film Things Heard and Seen, starring Amanda Seyfried and Natalia Dyer and directed by Sheri Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, premiered on Netflix recently, and while a lot of people have watched it and I see people talking about it, something I have yet to see many reviews acknowledge is the fact that the film is actually based on a novel, the literary thriller All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage.
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