Why The Movie Adaptation Sometimes Fail To Be A Blockbuster Movie

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.