Movies based on books
Sorry for not updating my blog regularly....
I just finished reading the book "The Zahir" by Paulo Coelho. I read the author's other book "The Alchemist" before that and am very much impressed..... Though "The Zahir" is not as gr8 as "The Alchemist", it is still worth a read. Some of the topics went above my head and may be because of that I didn't like this much. I am planning to reread this book again sometime in the future...
Let me come to the point of this blog. There were lot of movies came based on famous books like Harry potter,Lord of the rings etc..(My knowledge of English movie is very limited and hence can't quote more :)). I read Harry potter - The chamber of secrets. I enjoyed reading that book. I really kinda finished it at one stretch. But I didn't get that fun/joy when I watched the movie. Lot of those things were very well handled by the author, than the director of the movie.
That brings to the interesting point... What I think is, book is open ended and give lot of scope for imagination... But by seeing that in the movie, our imagination is limited(or even 0). It is also not provoking your creativity. You are actually watching the movie as read by the director and restricted to his imagination. Even if the director and the author are same that will be the same case. It is very common to see ppl who comment like gr8 book but bad movie...
What do you ppl think about this?
Any one did the reverse process on this? i.e Watching the movie first and then reading the book. What do you feel?
I just finished reading the book "The Zahir" by Paulo Coelho. I read the author's other book "The Alchemist" before that and am very much impressed..... Though "The Zahir" is not as gr8 as "The Alchemist", it is still worth a read. Some of the topics went above my head and may be because of that I didn't like this much. I am planning to reread this book again sometime in the future...
Let me come to the point of this blog. There were lot of movies came based on famous books like Harry potter,Lord of the rings etc..(My knowledge of English movie is very limited and hence can't quote more :)). I read Harry potter - The chamber of secrets. I enjoyed reading that book. I really kinda finished it at one stretch. But I didn't get that fun/joy when I watched the movie. Lot of those things were very well handled by the author, than the director of the movie.
That brings to the interesting point... What I think is, book is open ended and give lot of scope for imagination... But by seeing that in the movie, our imagination is limited(or even 0). It is also not provoking your creativity. You are actually watching the movie as read by the director and restricted to his imagination. Even if the director and the author are same that will be the same case. It is very common to see ppl who comment like gr8 book but bad movie...
What do you ppl think about this?
Any one did the reverse process on this? i.e Watching the movie first and then reading the book. What do you feel?
posted by Mani | 1:36 AM
3 Comments:
"Sorry for not updating my blog regularly". thats fine machi, to forgive is kicha.
I feel that books can give a detailed explanation and bring a deep feeling about the character, incidents.. which movies usually dont, and cannot.
after watching a movie, i will not go fwd and read a novel with the same story. thrille irukkathu machi.. we can do the other way for seeing colorful things on screen.
There are some cases where I feel movie does a better job than book. There is this book called "Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco. The book is a murder mystery, with lots of philosophy put in. There are parts of book where I felt lost. The movie, starring Sean Connery, was very good. It was gripping.
What I want to say is that depending on your taste, a movie can be better than a book sometimes.
Yeah Raj. If ppl got gr8 imagination skills, ppl tend to like the book more than the movies..
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