Movies from books
Movies from books
The adaptation of novels to movies is seen as the original source for scripts, even the first printed text, The Bible, having even been converted to film countless times. The great number of novels that exist is reason enough for books to provide the outline for many movies, but is it always a success to take the written word and transform it into scenes and pictures?
Novels, texts and books that provide the plot for movies come from works of fiction to autobiographies to plays to non-fiction historical accounts to comic books with the creative licence of the director and screenwriter ranging from staying true to the book to simply being a guideline.
A popular complaint of this process is that “The book is far better than the movie” with a level of controversy linked to the process of a movies interpretation of a novel. There are many
