What actually happened was that I experienced an entirely different story. I decided to pick up the book and experience the story in a different way. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Hobbit, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – all very short books that managed to inspire two or three hour films, or in one case, three whole films.Īnd now we arrive at Forrest Gump – another book which seems to have been mostly ignored by the filmmakers.įorrest Gump is one of my favourite films and I’m pretty sure that you’ll have seen it too at some point.
Often, the change happens because a lot of stuff has to be cut out but occasionally you get an instance where a lot gets added. The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Colour of Magic, A Series of Unfortunate Events – all pretty good films but nothing like the source material. The Harry Potter movies are masterpieces in their own way, but only if taken as a separate entity to the books. The differences are too great, they will never work out quite right. However, on the whole I think that you shouldn’t ever try to compare a film to a book. The adaptation of Never Let Me Go was rather good, for one. Turning books into films is not an easy task, and that’s not to say that it has never been done well. Granted, any descriptive passages are removed because they can be shown much quicker, but is that really a good thing? You are going to lose a lot of the plot, a lot of characterisation, perhaps even some entire characters.
A film has to be over and done with in, generally at most, two. An average book can take six to eight hours to read, let’s say. The trouble with converting books to films (I’ll get on with the review shortly) is that the mediums are so totally different that it becomes practically an impossibility. Forrest Gump was a book eight years before it was a film, but I’m willing to bet that some of you reading this now didn’t even know it had originally been a book. While Hollywood continues to take hold of someone else’s writing and often destroy it for a quick buck at the box office, very rarely do you see it happen the other way around. “Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.”īooks and movies, movies and books.
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