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Maze Runner Movie Comparison

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It may feel as though the modern cinematic climate is bursting with young adult book-to-film adaptations, but in all actuality we don’t get as many of these as might think, and we get even fewer that are on this scale. We’ve got ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘The Maze Runner’, which started off as novelizations themselves, but they’re on a much grander scale. ‘Paper Towns’ is a more contained and human story, which is often makes for a more comforting experience than watching people fight for their lives.
Originally, it was Nicholas Sparks who held dominion over grounded novel-to-screen adaptations, but it appears that John Green is looking to snatch the throne. The vast majority of humans fell in love with John Green upon the release of the book …show more content…

Not so much in the way that he scatters social media throughout his books, but more so in the sense that he addresses the way situations, interactions and experiences have changed since the days of Walt Whitman. Green often does this through the use of textual analysis and allusion, something that doesn’t exactly translate very well to the screen. Although, the screenwriters here did find a relatively savvy way to incorporate such allusions into the film through the direct use of Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ (again, an aspect derived from the novel). This film specifically emphasizes idealism, seeing something not as it is, but instead as what you’d like it to be. The film asks you to look at the way you view your work, life, relationships, and, like the film’s title, your own town, and ponder why you see it the way you do, is it out of idealism or realism? ‘Paper Towns’ also touches on an epoch in someone’s life, specifically the final stretch of high school. Not in the cliché sense to where the protagonist doesn’t know exactly what he wants to do after high school, but more so in that he fears the freedom that will accompany the end of his

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