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Poll: Movies based on books
What are your thoughts? Do you go to them? Do you prefer to read the book first, then see the movie or vice versa?
I ask because I finally saw "The Help" last night and all I did the whole movie was compare it to the book and then try to rack my brain remembering how things happened in the book when I knew that the movie differed slightly. And I ended up being a little bit disappointed. Sometimes I think that when a movie is announced, if I haven't read the book yet I should wait until after the movie to read the book.
However, with movies like "Time Traveller's Wife" I felt like I wouldn't have understood the storyline fully if I had not already read the book.
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Re: Poll: Movies based on books
I don't care one way or the other. If a book gets me interested in seeing a movie, great! If a movie gets me interested in reading a book, great! It doesn't bother me one way or another.
And generally, if the movie is well done, then it's ok if it deviates from the book a great deal because I know that you can't put every detail in a 600 page book into a 2 hour movie.
Same here!
For adult books, I have no problem with it. I figure the book will always be the same, but...
I get so annoyed with children's books that have been made into movies. Every year when we read Charlotte's Web, I just cringe when a couple students always say they don't understand why they have to read the book since they have seen the movie.
That happened to me when I tried reading Stuart Little to my class last year. I tried to help them understand that the book was written waaay before the movie(s) came out. Even so, a couple kids kept saying "well, in the movie he did ______ or he looked like ____________" We talked about how it's sometimes easier/harder to show/ act out things in a movie. It's great to make and note comparisons btwn the two and that was fine. However, I think a couple of them really believed the movie was "right" and the book was got some parts "wrong."