why do directors sometimes change books when they turn them into movies?

Question

why do directors sometimes change books when they turn them into movies?

i.e. Fahrenheit 451 book and movie...

Answer 1

Because books have you know chapters and chapters of the little details that help you to imagine the characters, the places and just all the scenes n everything better, but with movies you dont need that, cuz its like already there right infront of us, no imagination required. That´s one change that even though doesnt seem like a really big deal, it does give a change in atmosphere to the story, cuz its not like the ones we had in our heads before watchin the movie you know. And another reason is that a book really has no time amount of pages set on it, if it has alota pages its a big book and if it has only a few, then its a small book, but it really wouldnt effect you buyin it much, you know? A movie, however has many more rules set to it, like time limits for one, so they gotta do alota editing of the story to be able to fit it into the time scheme and still make it good u know...which all in all just sorta alters the story a little. That and i guess things like findin actors that actually look like the characters, or sometimes tryin to do a scene where theres some mythical creature in it, is whole lot harder and everything. But this is just my opinion, anyway. Hope this helps though. :)

Oh, and well this is not always the case, but sometimes, the directors are required to change the story somewhat to make it more audience targeted..like have really good looking actors in it, or some love story on the side that really doesnt actually play any part in the main point of the movie, and stuff like that. Its just things like that, that are put into the film to ensure that people take an interest in it. Coz love stories i guess are always interesting, to everybody.

Answer 2

in some cases a director will make changes to a movie from the book for some of the following reasons: in ET they changed the candie from m&m to reeses pieces because they could not get the right for product placement of the m&m's, another is that when they try to take a scene from a book and try to translate the image it doesn't transfer well, due to being impossible or needing a back story to set up the scene which results in additional scenes or that some parts have to be removed or added to keep a movie within a certain time frame. Not everyone would like to sit for six hours to watch a movie that followed a book exactly or be happy watching a movie that is under a hour long. When a author writes a book they do add text to set up in your mind a scene for you to imagine

Answer 3

Sometimes the book is just too long and the have to cut out a lot to make the movie not be 15 hours long.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a good example of this.

Answer 4

I don't know.. usually the Book winds up being Better! Like Queen Of the Damned (interview with vampire sequel) for instance... The Book Kicked A** but the Movie stunk! But the weird thing is.. Interview with the Vampire.. was almost word for word. I just don't get it.

Answer 5

It is not the director who does this it is the screen writerand there are many reasons fron the dialog in the book sucks to lets clean this up

Answer 6

maximum books have a great form of plots and subplots that in the event that they stayed actual to the e book , the action picture could equivalent to Wagner's the ring and you'd be there 3 or 4 nights. frequently they take the key plot and tinker with it , then substitute the ending because of the fact the ' concentration' communities did no longer like it.

Answer 7

Because they have a time limit when they make the movie.

Answer 8

I'm not sure, possibly to fit time constraints? Whatever they do, it never works. The book is always much better.

Answer 9

They're trying to make them more marketable for a more general audience.

Answer 10

It's called "poetic license" and they do it to make it more commercial/profitable. It seldom works well.