Author’s Note: I wrote this piece because I noticed that a lot of books have a movie based on the book a few years after. You are probably dreading the fact that I am going to do a compare and contrast piece between “The Hunger Games” books and movies, but I can assure you that I am not going to relate anything in this piece (besides this author’s note) to “The Hunger Games.” This is more of a piece about the differences and similarities that I and other people seem to notice between different books and the movies that go along with them.
When a book becomes really popular, movie producers make a movie based off of the book. Sometimes, the movie is made soon after the book is published, but other times, the movie is made years after. There are, of course, a lot of books out there that have been published and do not have a movie based off of it, but there are a lot of books that have been. More and more books are being written, and more and more movies have been made recently.
A lot of movies are based on a book. But not all of the movies include all of the details that are mentioned in the book are in the movie. Most of the time, the character has a lot of thoughts going on in their head. Normally, these “thoughts” are just things that are going on in the story, but the character is processing everything and thinking about what’s happening. But in the movie, you have to watch and see what happens, instead of “hearing” the characters thoughts.
Most of those thoughts are either what’s going on then or in the past. Sometimes, in a book, the chapters switch back and forth between then and now, otherwise known as the past and the present. In the movie for that book, it’s the same. The character appears to have a flashback of some sort, and it is normally obvious when that’s happening because the edges of the screen are blurry, or in slow motion. Sometimes, the voices of the people in the memory are really quiet, loud, or echoey. That’s a similarity that can occur between the same book and movie.
That’s a thing that’s similar with the book and the movie, but a lot of the time, most people imagine a book differently than the movie that comes out. Let’s say in the book, someone imagines a house that’s painted yellow, but in the movie, it’s painted blue. Seeing the movie and reading the book can give you different images of the story. Not all movies match the book exactly, and some details are different in the movie. Sometimes, characters have blonde hair in the book, but in the movie, they’re a brunette. That can mess up the image of the story that you had in the first place. There are plenty of older books that came out years ago that now have a movie.
Sometimes, people don’t even read the book (that normally comes out before the movie), and then they just go to see the movie. Other times, they might only read the book and not go see the movie. For example, the book “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel was published in 2001, and the movie just came out recently. Once the movie came out and everyone went to see it, they read the book because it was really popular. As you can see, there are a lot of differences and similarities between a book and the movie.
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