I love books and
I love movies. I love when books that have been turned into movies are true to
the book.
The following
are my top ten suggestions for success when it comes to the crucial transition
of a book being turned into a movie.
1) Don’t leave out
any main characters. Heck, don’t even leave out a minor character if he or she
has dialogue in the book.
For
example, in Twilight (the first book) there is another girl in the group that
Bella becomes friends with. Her name is Lauren Mallory. She is the uber popular
uber stuck up girl of Forks. She hates Bella because Tyler Crowley her wannabee
boyfriend is obsessed with Bella just like every other teenage boy in the book.
2) Don’t cast
actors that look nothing like what the character was described in the book.
3) Make sure the
plot is interesting enough to be a movie.
4) Do not put
$10 dollar wigs on the main characters…. Jacob I’m sorry but that long black
wig wasn’t fooling anyone.
5) Don’t change
the order of events… It’s just plain wrong and you know it.
6) If you are
going to kill off a character, be gentle. You’re about to rock a whole lot of
people into an emotional depression. Poor Fred. And I thought I was prepared
because I read the book.
7) Make the
movie so good that they were like wait… what? There was a book first? No. Way.
8) Make it so
people who haven’t read the book know what is going on in the movie without
having character’s explicitly state what is going on like they are doing
commentary at a basketball game.
9) If there are
characters in the first movie, then you can’t just exclude them in the second
movie just because. Hello where were you Tyler Crowley in New Moon? I mean you
practically almost killed Bella in the first movie, but you disappear in the
second installment?
10) If there are
four books in a series there better be four or more movies in the series.
Sorry this was
so Twilight obsessed with a dash of Harry Potter thrown in. They are my first (books
turned movies) loves.
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