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
In The Maze Runner it doesn’t say how they went in the tree fort to look at the whole village. Instead Alby just gives his tour for Thomas. I knew that the book would be a lot more descriptive so it did match my expectations in the book. I like the movie more because it shows how the runners were more tired. I feel like the characters were described a lot differently than they did in the movie.
Anthem and The Maze Runner is filled with conflict. In The Maze Runner characters are forced to live in a maze. The Maze Runner and Anthem compare and contrast in conflict with themselves, government, and rankings.This shows a dystopia because people are forced to do things they don't want to do. Furthermore details on the conflicts are needed to understand.
The book The Maze Runner and the book Anthem both show how much people will go through to escape something they hate. James Dashner writs on how much Thomas the main character wants to escape; Ayn Rand also writes how much Equality wants to escape to learn. Later on in the books both Equality and Thomas both feel freedom. Even though, the two books are similar in some ways the happy ending of Anthem is in contrast of the hanging ending of The Maze Runner
It is an unimaginable thought that something so similar can be missing so much. They can be both so unique and incomparable. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee the main character, Scout and her brother Jem fight prejudice through a young person perspective. The main characters go on a journey against Bob Ewell throughout the sleepy town of Maycomb, at the 1930’s. Bob Ewell has falsely accused Tom Robinson of a crime. On the process the characters grow a lot and find things that spark their curiosity. This makes an interesting plot with many turns. The movie, To Kill a Mockingbird, has many differences from its book, many plots and characters are missing which greatly impacts the movie directed by Robert Mulligan.
One example is is the main character from each book, Ralph (Lord of the Flies), and Thomas (Maze Runner). They both share the same traits: bold, ambitious, brave, and makes a good leader. In both books, the main protagonist strives towards a goal, and undergoes missions and challenges to reach it. In the Maze Runner, the aim is to escape a lethal maze. In the lord of the flies, the aim is to escape an isolated jungle island.
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…” (Kite Runner, Hosseini,142) This quote was said to Amir in the Kite Runner, however, this quote applies across all literature. Including A Thousand Splendid Suns.
The PBS article on film adaptation discusses the challenges of adopting a novel into a film and the changes film makers must make. Most of these novels that are being read in schools are being made into movies. In these movies though, the narrator disappears in the movies which is a main factor of a book because they would show many characteristics about a character. The great thing about movies is that instead of a narrator, everybody can see the emotions on the characters faces and explains what the character goes through. For example, in the film “The Pedestrian” instead of having a narrator the creator of the film added another character in to show their feeling and emotions and others(Bollinger). Film is limited in many aspects as in
In today 's society, equality is a big deal, with many people still fighting for their rights. People all over the world are still being discriminated against, a topic that is not uncommon for a vast amount of dystopian novels. In fact, it 's a very common theme for multiple dystopian pieces. Scott Westerfeld 's Uglies, Joelle Charbonneau 's The Testing, Liam Hughes ' The Social Classes, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 's Harrison Bergeron, and Wes Ball 's interpretation of The Maze Runner all have social discrimination integrated into their story lines. Despite the many problems in dystopian societies, authors also present the classic hero that rises above those issues and works to rebuild their government or community. However, a hero isn 't just born, they 're made through a series of events such as problems with social class discrimination.
The idea of playing God is a strong theme throughout science fiction and portrays different effects in various works. One of the first characters to accomplish this is Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Another character of science fiction recognized to do this is Dr. Tyrell from Blade Runner. These men played God and created a new form of life, but for different reasons and different results.
Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein published in 1818, was the crucial influence of the 1994 Frankenstein movie directed by Kenneth Branagh. Kenneth was extremely successful and had a lot of ambition to portray the real horror image Shelley wrote about in her novel. Before the 1994 movie, there were numerous vague interpretations based on the novel. I believe the 1994 film's intent to be the most relative to the novel than any other film produced. The movie did a considerable job following the schematics of the novel. Although the film's storyline is similar, there are varying scenarios within the movie, and this makes a difference towards the plot. To begin, the novel starts off with Robert Walton writing to his beloved sister about his
The PBS article on film adaptation discusses the challenges of adapting a novel into film and the changes
Whenever books are adapted for film, changes inevitably have to be made. The medium of film offers several advantages and disadvantages over the book: it is not as adept at exploring the inner workings of people - it cannot explore their minds so easily; however, the added visual and audio capabilities of film open whole new areas of the imagination which, in the hands of a competent writer-director, can more than compensate.
My two novels, Divergent and The Maze Runner, have many similarities that I would like to discuss. Firstly, both novels focused on being thrust into a brand new world that the characters were not used to. Thomas(The Maze Runner protagonist)started off the book with him waking up inside of a cargo box, traveling upwards at an incredibly high speed, and with only the memory of his name. When Tris decided to join the Dauntless, she immediately had to adapt and change, from jumping from trains and buildings to fighting someone until submission or decommission. To add onto that, despite being both unfamiliar with their new lives, they were able to adapt fairly quickly with Tris being first in the second and third round of initiation, and
The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross, and Maze Runner, directed by Wes Ball, are films with similar themes such as heroism, dystopian world and sacrifice. Both films involve killing of innocent lives by authorities in charge as a mean to find peace. The Maze Runner is about finding a cure of civilisation whilst the The Hunger Games uses the competitions in order to control the population and prevent an uprising. Katniss in the film is a 16 year old girl who volunteers as a tribute in the competition. Thomas is also a 16 year old Glader who was forced to be inside the maze by the Creators. The themes and filming techniques used by Gary Ross and Wes Ball in both in their will be compared in order to see the similarities. There are two
The Maze Runner, written by James Dashner is the first book in the Maze Runner pentalogy. The story follows the adventures of a sixteen-year-old boy named Thomas, who finds himself waking up in the heart of a labyrinth, titled ‘The Glade’. As it turns out there are many teenage boys accompanying Thomas. The aim is to escape from the labyrinth, but this does not go as effortlessly as it sounds, due to the fact that the labyrinth is constructed by the inexplicable and threatening WICKED (World In Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department). At nightfall, the walls of the labyrinth move and barricade the four entrances of the labyrinth. The walls prevent the boys from being attacked by creatures called grievers, who walk around the labyrinth every night. Survival intuition, faith and friendship are some of the themes portrayed in the book. In the film adaptation of The Maze Runner, there are three highly visible differences in comparison to the book. In the first place, Dashner delightfully depicts the thought processes of the protagonist in the book, whilst in the film this is not portrayed at all. Secondly, the time frame of the film is diminished, which makes the story less plausible. Lastly, the strong characters Dashner developed for the books are nullified in the film adaptation. Therefore,