Loved the movie, HATED the book!!! « Thread Started on Oct 7, 2006, 4:47am »
A friend of mine just read "Jaws" for the very first time--AND HATED IT!!! All I heard about, over and over again, was how different the book was from the movie. How people who died in the book lived in the movie. How Hooper and Chief Brody's wife have an affair in the book. How none of the famous movie lines ("You're goona need a bigger boat", "Smile, you son of a bitch", etc) weren't in the book. How ths shark dies differently (no exploding air tank) in the book. And on, and on. After watching the movie for years, reading the book was very disappointing to my friend.
Have you ever read a book tha was made into a movie and thought the movie was far superior to the book.
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Re: Loved the movie, HATED the book!!! « Reply #1 on Oct 7, 2006, 10:08am »
I've read book adaptations of several movies and found that there have been changes in the characters name, how they behave, what their lines are (some are missing as if the author forgot what was said onscreen), an so on.
However, in the movie, there is a lot more visual references that you can't find in a book. I bet the author has a hard time trying to put these references on paper. Give the author some slack, he or she are doing his or her best to get the book fairly close to the events and the sayings from the movie.
Re: Loved the movie, HATED the book!!! « Reply #2 on Oct 7, 2006, 1:44pm »
Yeah, but "Jaws" isn't a "novelization" of a movie. "Jaws" was a bestseller of 1973/1974 that was made into a movie in 1975. "Jaws" author Peter Benchley actually wrote the first "Jaws" movie script before it was eventually re-written. And he HATED Spielberg's exploding air tank ending. Personally, I have no problem with making changes to a book for the movie. Subtle changes I might add. Most books aren't movie friendly. Some have far too many plots and sub-plots to fit into 2 hours running time and you have to take focus on a coherent main storyline. like the author of the graphic novel "Road to Perdition" said about the movie made from his book and the changes made to make the book into a movie, "They exist on their two separate plains. If they people who see the movie want to know more about the story they can read my book". I guess my friend wasn't expecting the book "Jaws" to be so radically different from the movie. Dee
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Re: Loved the movie, HATED the book!!! « Reply #3 on Oct 9, 2006, 11:10am »
I'd like to point out something. Film scripts and books are totally different forms of creativity. Each has their own set of rules for the author or scriptwriter to follow and each writes the story to how it should be conveyed to the audience. Jaws, from both its movie version and its book version, tells the same story, but in different ways.
You're entitled to your opinion, but do you get what I'm trying to tell you?
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