Do movies live up to the books they get inspired from?

Question

Films like Omakara inspired from Othello or the latest ‘The NameSake’ based on Jhumpa Lahiri’s book of the same name, do they do justice to the works they get inspired from....

Answer 1

Most movies are lacking the imaginative prose of a good author who almost effortlessly transports the reader into a world of interesting characters with great dialogue, descriptive scenery and complex story-lines. Movies do bring the story to life in another visual way: good actors (sometimes hot) playing their roles well, well-shot scenery, and music to set the mood.

So movies often do not live up to the books that inspired them sometimes due to budget and time restrictions (most movies try to be a certain length so theaters can get maximum showings per day). Still it's good to have movie adaptations of books for the visual element.

Answer 2

Books and flicks contain countless aspects and you will not often locate any action picture to be incredibly much as good because of the fact the e book from which it is been stimulated. the explanation isn't a counsel on a thank you to seek for and comprehend. the author of the e book is particularly like the genuine mom of the youngster (e book), the director of the action picture turns into resembling a foster mom now the keenness with which a narrative is informed by the author can seldom be discovered interior the way that a action picture director translates it on the celluloid. as a techniques because of the fact the readers are worried each and each reader gets individually invloved interior the characters and tale of a gripping novel and could make a psychological action picture of the e book and that psychological imaginative and prescient it is totally to the whims and fancies of the reader shall by no ability be discovered to be doing absolute justice to the the translation as offered by the action picture director. There shall continuously be a niche it is rather complicated to bridge. subsequently making video clips out of classic novels is an exceedingly volatile enterprise. See how the gripping novel, 'Da Vinci Code' has fallen flat as a action picture and has long gone directly to alter into between the utmost perfect promoting novels of all circumstances.

Answer 3

Not really...

In fact, DON'T get me started...especially on the mess the movies make with Science Fiction. Two examples:

"Dune" the movie had NONE of the power that won Dune (the book) the Hugo. Still, that wasn't as bad as...
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..."I, Robot" (Where was Issac Asimov when you need him?) - I saw only 7% of The Good Doctor's actual book of The Same Name in that movie (Arthur Conan Doyle's "Seven Percent Solution" was better...but I digress...), though there was a smattering from some of his other works...In My Not So Humble Opinion, it looked like the books had been fed into a shredder, Then run through a blender, and THEN thrown into a tornado! The shards and shredded wheat that remained were then thrown together into a Full-Fledged Mess!

...no, No, NOOOOOOOOO......!!!!!!

Answer 4

Books will always out-shine the films that are spawned from them. Though there have been some very enjoyable films that almost did:

The Shining (book = Stephen King, film -staring Jack Nicholson)
The Green Mile (book = Stephen King, film - staring Tom Hanks)

I prefer to see them as two different entities, then I can enjoy them both.

In the film, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975, staring Jack Nicholson), the screen play was written from a completely different character's perspective from the book. They both can be seen as brilliant in their own right

Answer 5

It varies from movie to movie. In general I think books are better. In regards to the Lord of the Rings series, I enjoyed the movie more. Tolkein has a way of putting in too much detail making me want to fall asleep. So with the right combination of talented adaptation and film making a movie can be better in my opinion. It seams to come down to if you think someone can do better presenting something better than your own imagination guided by an author.

Answer 6

Books rarely live up to the books that inspired them. One exception: Waiting to Exhale. The movie was better than the over-rated book. Sorry, Terry McMillan.

Answer 7

Both are different, and differ in the way it contributes to the reader/viewer. In books we create our own world from what is given in the pages while in movies we are seeing someone Else's world. To us our world is far better, and to those who don't read they prefer to live in some one Else's world. But if we look at a movie as a movie and a book as a book we will be able to enjoy both of them equally.
Thank You

Answer 8

I've never seen a movie that lived up to the book. I like to read books over again if I really liked them, but sometimes after seeing a really bad movie, I can't read the book again.

Answer 9

They face a tough challenge- ur imagination!
now how u imagine various situation nd characters nd how u interpret dem i think no movie can create that.
cause once uve read the book
u'll always be comparing da situations u had created in ur mind to the ones in the movies so one is bound 2 b dissapointed

Answer 10

so rarely do they live up to the books I was tempted to put 'never'...

the thing is, they are two completely different forms of communication, and although story is important, the cues of each are very dissimilar. You can't find workable internal dialogue in film, nor can you find succinct visual summary in books, etc.

I don't look for movies to mirror my favorite books anymore, and kind of keep them in separate compartments, so to speak