There are many challenges when it comes to adapting a novel into a film or TV programme. This includes the construction of a world, temporality, point of view, fidelity and originality and audience expectations. The world of a book is to expand your imagination. I will be looking closely at the novel The City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. As the first novel in the Mortal Instruments series, it has a very big following and passionate fans. The thing that stood at when picking this novel was that it only had one film, which didn’t do very at the box-office, and with 6 novels in the series it was said that no more films were going to be made. Like few other films before, television network ABC announced that they were adapting the series into …show more content…
With a series that already has a big following and audience, making the film to all of their expectations is literally impossible. Everyone reads a book, has a different interpretation of the world, the characters and the storyline. People imagine what the character look like, what they sound like. A big part of audience expectations are the cast. There will always be people who don’t see certain people as the characters. No one will be perfect for the role, as they are fictional. No one will have everything the character is, but mostly they do try to cast as closely to the character as they can.
In City of Bones, there are a lot of difference between the actors for the same role. In the film role, the main character clary is played by Lily Collins. The character in the book is said to have red hair. She describes herself as having ‘carroty hair and a face full of freckles’
This is different in both adaptions, the film having more dark red, auburn hair where as the tv adaption it is almost orange. The actresses playing the same role are actually very different
The brother and sister in the novels are described as “dark haired’ and ‘beautiful”, the differences in the casting in each adaption is big. In the TV series, they are
The book and movie have the same main characters playing the same roles. Cyrano is charming, poetic, and witty with a huge nose in both the book and the movie. Women love Cyrano as a friend but
Both are alike in a way, both are playful and have a moral to the story. Although they are somewhat alike the morals are completely different and so is the ending. In the movie, she gets married to the prince and lives happily ever after.but in the original story
To start off, the director did keep most of the characters looks and personalities the same in the movie as in the book. Some differences were that in the book Skeeter is big and tall, but the movie has her slender and average height, if not shorter. Hilly is portrayed in the book as a dark haired woman, whose weight increased throughout the timeline in the book, but in the movie, she is thin and stays that way through the whole movie. Also in the movie, Skeeter’s maid, Constantine, is shorter that Skeeter, although
The plot and the setting of book and movie are very similar. There was a lot of thins borrowed from the book, but there was a lot changed as well. The movie followed the plot of book very closely and portrayed the setting of the book very well. A lot of the dialogue was borrowed and spoken directly as it was in the book.
differences exist between the original play and the film. Apart from the specific techniques of lighting and
The actor choices from the film compare to what the book envisioned, but also contrast. The character of Daisy is not similar in the film to what the book
There are a lot of similarities in the movie and the book. Now here are some differences. Flora wasn't in the movie, Angela was engaged to Ed plum rather than her being engaged to Denton Deere, Theo wasn't in the movie, but was
In our world of advanced technology, we love to watch movies more than we love to read. Sitting in front of a flat-screen TV while eating popcorn and drinking soda would sound much more appealing than reading a book by the fire at night while drinking a frappucino from Starbucks. Now, producers and directors would take successful and famous stories and adapt it into a movie. Sometimes, they would succeed, with examples being the Harry Potter series, which received mainly positive reviews from both critics and the audience. However, most of the time these people would unknowingly butcher the book based movie by taking out many important characters and events, with good examples being The Lightning Thief and Eragon. Then another example of a
Slaying dragons and saving fair maidens is what you will find in this wonderful book. Both, book and movie, are full of wonderful adventures. It is easy to find similarities and differences in this wonderful pair. The similarities and differences are very fun and different.
“The Girl with All the Gifts” book and movie have noticeable differences, but it sticks to the overall plot well. The biggest change from book to movie is the casting of Melanie and Miss Justineau. In the book, Melanie is described to be Caucasian,
City of Bones is the very first voyage of a girl named Clary Fray who has an extremely significant role in the existence of two worlds. She is a mundane living with only her mother, Jocelyn Fray and Luke Garroway his stepfather. Clary has a lot to explore. During her visit to the Pandemonium Club in New York with her best friend Simon, they witnessed a murder committed by Shadowhunters. Shadowhunters are half human and half angels. They are dedicated to ride the earth with demons. It's also her first meeting with gorgeous, golden-haired Jace who is a Shadowhunter. Within twenty-four hours, Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon.
There are a lot of different things between the movie and book, like appearance. Trumpkin has a red beard in the book, but it is blond in the movie "...whiskers fo red hair left little of his face to be seen"(Lewis
The criteria for judging an adaptation is different than it would be for an original script. First, it is typically judged based on how well it follows the story. Are departures beneficial to its transition to the big screen, or does it muddy the themes of the original novel? Second, how does the piece transition to the big screen? Does the movie simply exist as an advertisement for the book, and finally, the third criteria, does it add something to the experience that makes it a truly noteworthy stand alone film.
As a reader, I always wanted film adaptations to stay faithful to the book. Now, however, I can see it from Keret’s perspective. As a writer, if I was fortunate enough to have a director want to make a film adaptation of one of my stories, I would not want them to make an exact film replicate of my story. While it will be nice to see the story visually, the film might become boring for people who already now the story. Thus, by the director putting their own original spin to it, it does make the story fresh and unique
They are most of the same characters but there are characters that were left out of the movie. In the book Hazel is friends with a girl named Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn and Hazel go to the mall and text, however in the movie there is no Kaitlyn. Also in the book, Augustus talks to Hazel about his old girlfriend that pased away. Caroline Mathers was Augstuses old girlfriend that died of cancer. In the movie they never mention Caroline Mathers or talk about her. Last of all, it says in the book that Hazel goes to Isaac's house and they play video games and his little brother is there. There is no part in the movie where Hazel is at Isaac's house and she meets his brother. This book has many simalities when it comes to the characters but you also have to notice that there are just as many