Novels adapted into films

the novel. Gatsby and Daisy finally meet. Not to mention all the symbolism in this one chapter that you just can’t miss, and if it is adapted into a movie it must be well executed, for if not the movie will fail to bring purpose to the book. In the 2013 film version of The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann the scene where Gatsby and Daisy meet again at Nick's house should be exactly like the book. We should feel the emotion and understand the tone of the scene, and I believe in this film…

In 1978 the novel The World According to Garp by American author John Irving was published. In 1982 the novel was adapted for the big screen by director George Roy Hill. The screenplay was written by Steve Tesich and John Irving. Both the film and the novel are about Garp’s life. They explore his childhood, teenage years, and adult life; however, they each do this very differently. In the novel The World According to Garp the theme of lust is prevalent and plays an important role in the plot,…

an omniscient narrator. But in a film, the scheme of things changes and the narration can be done in many different ways. The cinematic techniques can be used creatively and effectively to become sources of narration. In The Old Man and the Sea (Sturges) and Samskara (Reddy), the filmmakers have resorted to flashback sequences as tools of narration. Both the film adaptations have rather linear plots, which are very similar to the original novels. But with the change in the medium of expression,…

Kubrick directed many films. His most popular film was The Shining. British-American psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Scatman Crothers. The film is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining, despite the film and novel both differing slightly in significant manners. In The Shining Jack Torrance, a…

Kurt Wallander is the lead character in the Kurt Wallander series of novels created by Swedish crime author Henning Georg Mankell. Mankell published the first novel in the series Faceless Killers in 1991 before he went on to publish nine more titles culminating in the 2010 published The Troubled Man. Kurt Wallander is a small town detective working in the coastal town of Ystad in Sweden. He is a very dedicated cop who has a knack for getting the smallest but most important of details from any…

The Legend of Bagger Vance is an allegorical movie about golf but it is not a sports movie in the conventional sense. The film is adapted by director Robert Redford from the novel by Steven Pressfield and is told more in the fashion of a fable about life, the universe and everything. In a nutshell, Bagger Vance tells the tale of Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon), a rising golf star in Savannah, Georgia, who went to World War I and came back with something broken inside. He spends most of the 1920s…

Candace Bushnell is an American television producer and novelist best known for writing a series of chick lit novels. Her best known works are the Sex and the City novels which were adapted from the columns by the same name that she wrote for the New York Observer between 1994 and 1996. Candace was born to Camile Salonia and Calvin L. Bushnell in 1958 Glastonbury, Connecticut. Her father was something of a celebrity in her town having been an inventor of the Air Cooled Hydrogen Fuel Cell that…

Club in 1996. He was surprised when the novel became his first published work. After that Palahniuk wrote many novels like Survivor (1999), Choke (2001), Lullaby (2002), Diary (2003), Haunted (2005), Rant (2007), Snuff (2008), Damned (2011) and Invisible Monsters was published again in 1999. He got many prizes: the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the Oregon Book Award for Best Novel for his novel Fight Club in 1997. David Fincher has adapted Fight club to be a movie, "that…

arts, and when he was a teenager, he entered the entertainment industry. After making his debut in Antonio Campos' drama film Afterschool in 2008, he went on to appear in the black comedy drama film Another Happy Day, which went on to win multiple awards. Alongside Emma Watson, Miller made an appearance in the film adaptation of Stephen Chbosky's best-selling coming-of-age novel of the same name, titled The Perks of Being a Wallflower. As Miller's popularity increased, he was offered…

up of two classes -- the hunters and the hunted.” The previously mentioned hunter and the hunted is a common set of roles for characters in short stories, novels, plays, and films. The story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell is a classic example. Whenever a piece of literature, such as a short story or a novel, are adapted into a film or another medium, changes are common. These changes can be minor and have no effect on the story, such as renaming a character; however, these changes…