The Importance Of Film Adaptation

work of art it has relied on and in turn how each audience connects with the work of art in the first place and then the film that is a work of adaptation. This leads us to a palimpsestic observation that a work of adaptation is a derivation from a previous work without really being imitative. "Adaptation includes almost any act of alteration performed upon specific cultural works of past and dovetails with a general process of cultural recreation." (Fishclin)

Ever since the time the first films were made till date, the scholars of film studies and critics alike have been puzzled by the similar fundamental questions; the most basic of these is, the debate between the real and the reel world. How can one justify whether silence or sound

For many years, the film adaptations of books were seen as inferior by the critics and film enthusiasts. Most opined that the film version of the text lacked the essence of the original book. The films were simply penurious versions of the high standard texts. The cinematic versions could do no justice to the written word. It merely flattened everything out onto a screen for the viewer to see. The books with it's meticulous descriptions wonderful schemes of plot offered a lot more to the reader. It provided the reader with the space to imagine as one wished and accordingly delve deeper into the meanings implied. There was certainly more room for absorbing elements and a lot was left to the reader's own interpretation. The critics also argued that unlike books, the films left no room for one to probe deeper into the text. It had many shortcomings. Not everything written in the book could be filmed. In such circumstances, the filmmaker would make a film with wae resources that were available at hand and this in turn was a drawback. The filmmaker provided a ready-to-view version of the text thus not allowing the viewers' to rely on thier own imagination. It was like saying that the viewer was at the mercy of the filmmaker and had to swallow the bite offered to him without protesting of mentioning if he preferred it. The film could never delve deeper into what the book had to offer, lest

Why does this happen? Well, everyone who has loved reading a book and have entered the enthralling world of the human mind where there exist new realms of imagination would always love the magic of the book or the written word. They eagerly await its cinematic adaptation in order to view it onscreen; its places, characters, events come to life but often, the adapted version is very different from the original book and this leaves the readers dissatisfied. While in some cases when the film is a faithful copy of the original, it is criticised for 'going by the book' way too