There is a quote by Stephen King
which is, “Book and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit but
taste completely different.” That means reading a novel will feel completely
different from watching the movie. Even if the novel and the movie have a same
story, they will feel completely different from each other. We can see that
even though the novel is one of the bestseller novel and has won many awards,
when they make a movie adaptation of it, usually it failed to be one of the
blockbuster film of its era. There are some reason of why this is usually
happen to the movie adaptation.
We can
use the Percy Jackson story as an example. Even though the Percy Jackson novel
is a successful novel, one of the New York bestseller and has won many awards,
when the movie adaptation came out it didn’t have a very good reception like
the novel. It’s not that the movie is bad, the truth is the movie itself is
good one, but as a reader of the novel I feel that something is missing when I
have watched the movie till the end. I think there is a few reason of why this
happen. The first one is, where and how the story take place. In the novel, the
writer try to explain the story goes by words, that makes the reader use their
imagination to make their own place of where the story happen, what the
character looks like and how the Percy Jackson story goes. But in the movie we
can’t do it like that. We can only watch what the director or the producer
imagine and sometimes it is very different from the reader imagination. They
also have the limitation of the technology, so sometimes they can’t make the
world like in our imagination. That makes
me feel that something is missing from the movie.
The
second reason is the Percy Jackson movie has changed some of its story from the
novel. Like in the Lightning Thief. In the novel they have the story of where
Ares, The God of War, command Percy to take his shield from the Hephaestus, The
God of Blacksmith, traps. Or when Percy is fighting Ares after Percy finally
escape from the Underworld. The first movie didn’t have that story. In the
second movie, when Percy is fighting Cronus, where the fight takes place and
how the fight goes is very different from how the novel portray it. That makes
me feel that the story is very different and feel disappointed that they didn’t
do some of the story and change some of the story.
The
reason stated above is some of the reason why a movie adaptation usually failed
to be one of the blockbuster movie. The way that the movie portray of how the
story goes is very different from what the reader imagine. It sometimes makes
the movie failed to meet the reader expectation. Sometimes it makes the reader
feel a bit disappointed. Of course not all of the reader feel this way, but I’m
one of the reader that feel a bit disappointed about it. But, not all of the
movie adaptation didn’t have a good reception likes its novel. The movie Harry
Potter, The Godfather, The Lord of The Rings, Narnia, and The Shawshank
Redemption are some of the example of a successful movie adaptation of a novel.
Each of them have become a successful film and some of them have become a blockbuster
film on its era.
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