On The Road movie?

Question

can you believe they're planning on making a movie based on the Beat novel On the Road???
this can not and should not be happening!!!!
the movie will only ruin everything we seen and believed from reading the book.
will movies crack the foundations of timeless literature again and again and again???
we must not let it!!!!!!!

what are your thoughts??

Answer 1

Are we there yet?

Answer 2

Movies are separate art form to literature. There is a relationship between the two in that many movies are based upon literary works but adaptation can never capture the essence of work totally. The screenwriters, director and actors must interpret the work by themselves. And everyones reading of a text will differ.

I think some adaptations have exceeded their source material although true most don't. Just read Out of Sight and Soderberg's film was as good as Leonard's novel (I thought!) same goes for Fight Club Fincher was brave enough to give it the ending it deserved.

But yes any attempt to film On The Road will be disasterous. Probably voice-over driven and unsatisfying - an attempt to capture a feeling that was intangible then and more so now.

So thats me agreeing with you then!

Answer 3

it is impossible to make a movie of such a piece of literature, this is not a novel.they will probably extract events from the text, string them together as a story and it will be conveyed by these untalented, short, uncharasmatic sad wannabees that are laughingly called movie actors? by the undiscerning masses.

Answer 4

Hate when they run out of ideas for films, and they have to start and ruin great books by making crappy films out of them, this spoils the enjoyment of reading the book.

Answer 5

I agree with you 100%. They tried it with "Last Exit To Brooklyn" and virtually ruined my mental interpretation of what was my favourite book.

Answer 6

i dont know but they screwed up eragon