‘The Maze Runner’, ’Harry Potter’, ‘The Lord of Rings’… there is no lack of good movies that are based on novels in the modern days. Through the amazing narrating skills and special effects, people may enjoy the best stories among novels in the theatre with highly recovered scenes. Taking a look on the online forum, it is not difficult to observe youngsters are undoubtedly one of the majorities who like these well-filmed movies. However, would they also be interested in those old films we are talking about this time: the Natural and Christine?
The Natural, a movie that is never missed in the list of the ‘top base ball movies’ by different websites and medias, may draw the the interest of the college students simply by the main thread of itself- baseball. Being the national sport of the United States, most of them should already have themselves engaged in it when they were children and even became fans of it. Hence, baseball is more amiable to them and this could be a good selling point of the movie to them. Some may
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However, unfortunately, it does not guarantee the audience and the production group that the film must be a nice one to watch. But is this the end of the world? No. It is not difficult to find that there are always a large group of people like to watch the film version after they read the novel, or vice versa. In other words, they could be a pair of nice partner to sell the story itself. To the author, it is undoubtedly a good thing. However, to the audience may not be the ones who are benefited. People should still consider to have a look on the reviews before they start to read or watch the story- with there are more people just treating the film market and the book market as some profit-making industries, more and more unsatisfying works occur. Being a smart audience and reader, people should always select carefully for the ones that satisfy their own favors and with
As you can all see the movie for once is actually better than the book in showing the
After discovering a God-given talent, a young boy struggles to achieve his only dream; to become the best there ever was. Baseball is all he has ever known, so he prevails through the temptations and situations laid before him by those out to destroy his career. His hopes and dreams outweigh all the temptations along his journey. These hopes, dreams, and temptations are depicted through archetypes in the movie The Natural.
I'd be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?"
The Dystopian novels The Maze Runner and Divergent say it is okay to be different. For example the Maze Runner is about how a group of kids called the Gladers will find a way to conquer the maze. Conversely,Divergent is about Tris how she is divergent and she needs to survive. In this two stories the big themes is that a perfect society never works.In addition, of these great books show that it is okay to be different.
Doomsday. Armageddon. 2012. The end of the world or the apocalypse is known by its many names and has become an extremely viral subject for this generation. But, imagine living in a world not playfully joking around about the apocalypse, but strategically trying to survive it. This is the harsh reality for Thomas, a teenager living in a virus polluted and self-destructing planet. A deadly disease has broken out called “the flare” which causes the most sane and rational people to become raging and hysterical flesh eaters. Not only has the virus taken the lives of millions, but the extreme climates have also killed the few remaining. In the novels The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, Thomas and his friends will have to fight to survive a world taken over by the sick and protect one other from those who say they want to help. The two novels share a touching story of young lives entwined during a difficult time and the lengths the characters go through in order to survive the apocalypse. The ultimate question within these novels is what is one willing to risk in order to survive? Within the novels The Death Cure and The Scorch Trials, Thomas is forced to fight for his survival on a daily basis, and in doing so he is constantly faced with either having to betray those closest to him, or remain the honest and true man he is, in order to survive. Within these novels, relationships are tested to such extremes that the repercussions of each survival based decision the characters make have the possibility of endangering the lives of those closest to them, but ultimately is a test to see who remains true to themselves and does not sell out their friends or themselves.
According to John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, “The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work;”, expressing the inclusion of a religious theme in the novels. The first spiritual work of Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, was published in 1954. It is followed by The Two Towers and The Return of the King, and all of them were produced into movies by director Peter Jackson. Both the books and movies are set in Middle-Earth, an imaginary world created by Tolkien, and they deal with the Ring; a magical object that controls people. The story is mostly concerned with Hobbits who are smaller than Dwarves, not obtrusive, and love peace and quiet. Despite bearing some superficial similarities, the differences between the first
Stephen King’s book, The Shining, and Stanley Kubrick’s film have many differences and similarities. Both the movie and the book is centered around a family of three. The dad, John Torrence, the mom, Wendy Torrence, and the child, Danny Torrence who have a rough time at Overlook hotel. While they are very similar, Stephen King’s book, The Shining, and Stanley Kubrick’s film show the many small and large differences. Stanley takes a different route in his interpretation of Stephen’s story with the main characters’ personalities and how the Overlook hotel has taken a toll on them.
In conclusion, details involving the characters and symbolic meanings to objects are the factors that make the novel better than the movie. Leaving out aspects of the novel limits the viewer’s appreciation for the story. One may favor the film over the novel or vice versa, but that person will not overlook the intense work that went into the making of both. The film and novel have their similarities and differences, but both effectively communicate their meaning to the public.
Teenagers nowadays are getting fond of watching and reading dystopian books/films. A More commonly watched ones is the famous Hunger Games. Teenagers today like that particular movie because; It is controlled by one person named Snow. Most teenagers believe that teachers and parents control their lives. They also like dystopian movies because they normally have a rebel who goes against the rules. The two main Dystopian novels or movies I am going to talk about are: Anthem and The Maze Runner.
‘Field of Dreams’ is a diversified script that constantly evolves, but mainly revolves around the game of baseball, ‘the greatest game ever invented’. The game that according to some avid spectators, completely and thoroughly transcends and binds the country to past, present, and future--generation to generation. In this movie this national pastime represents an avenue that finds the connection to the soul of a great audience; somehow insinuating that baseball acts as a means of fulfilling individual spiritual needs. These needs are that of a ‘sense of belonging’, a need to participate in sport, either vicariously as a spectator or directly as a participant. Moreover the desire to engage in distraction and play may be intrinsic to the human psyche. The theme throughout the movie was based on the legendary story of the Chicago White Sox of 1919, where the question was raised on the issue of the team’s “sportsmanship” and the ethical behavior of several teammates during the World Series. This left the image of America’s most idolized team tarnished and lead up to a ban of eight players from the sport; for an ‘unsportsmanlike’ like conduct in the series. The public view of the game up until then was that of perfection, it was clean and straight; but afterwards, the lack of fair play especially coming from such highly ranked players, ended up affecting fans’ enthusiasm for the entire sport. As the movie nears its ending, Robinson evolved on the concept of having utterly devoted fans and as if in a mystified manner drew them in to this already mystical place, just to have them see the most idolized team of ‘the golden age’ play once again.
Many people around the world are reading their favorite books, savoring each page of them. Books that become popular enough get transformed into movies for the fans to enjoy. Some movies are really close to being spot on. If that's the case, there would be little to no differences between the book and the movie. However, many movies have many differences from the book. The book, Maze Runner, is an example of a book that's been transformed into a film. While this specific book and movie have many similarities, there are some minor differences between the two.
Could you ever imagine writing a book and have it be a bestseller, and it’s your first book? This question describes J.R.R Tolkien, the English literature guru (He wrote books such as the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings) perfectly. Tolkien's life was a life of teaching and writing. Most of his influences came from his childhood or occurrences happening to him at that time. His book the Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring relates to his life from traveling to a new land and his original home land. J.R.R. Tolkien was a great writer whose work was influenced by his life.
The Maze Runner by James Dashner is a science fiction novel that includes action and thriller. The novel is about a sixteen year old boy named Thomas who wakes up with no memory from where he came from or who he is or what he was doing there and in a metal cage box surrounded by many teenage boys looking at him weirdly. Throughout the novel there is many science-fiction themes and characteristics displayed such as futuristic technology, alien, robot like creatures environmental and social changes also unrealistic and fictional events.
Film and literature are two media forms that are so closely related, that we often forget there is a distinction between them. We often just view the movie as an extension of the book because most movies are based on novels or short stories. Because we are accustomed to this sequence of production, first the novel, then the motion picture, we often find ourselves making value judgments about a movie, based upon our feelings on the novel. It is this overlapping of the creative processes that prevents us from seeing movies as distinct and separate art forms from the novels they are based on.
Gullivers Travels Comparison Between Book and Movie It is common in today's media-driven society to reach into the past for inspiration and ideas. A trend has developed where original works are transformed into other mediums. For example: books are turned into movies and/or plays, movies are turned into weekly sitcoms, and cartoons will spawn empires (Disney). These things happen so often that an audience rarely stops to question the level of authenticity that remains after these conversions. Perhaps it is only when a project is not well received that people begin to think of the difficulties involved with changing a work's genre.