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At least with The Godfather Mario Puzo helped write the movie too.
And then the book became popular because of the film.
I finished Dune recently. Any guesses why I started reading the books?
cause you bought the book ig
Then turns out the movie adaptation was better than the source material
I rarely see this take, what are your favorite examples
I've heard that a minority likes the book of how to train your dragon, better than the adaptation animation of dreamworks. Turns out, the book needed a lot of improvements. I heard astrid does not even exist in the book.
Or ready player one, I never read the book or know the difference but imo if the book is as better than the movie then I won't debate it.
My take on How To Train Your Dragon is that, while the book was very good, it was too much like a little book for kids - Dreamworks took the idea and transformed it into something that could become a very popular movie, there aren't really many similarities anymore.
And Astrid isn't in the books, but the Astrid from the Dreamworks series and movies is based on a character called Kamikazi in the books :)
Yeah I can see why they changed that name
Ready Player One, is a good read. The book is a bit short, and leaves a lot up to the reader.
As an old gamer, i got a lot of the references, which helped with the imagination.
For people who haven’t played much retro games, the movie does do a good deal of the heavy lifting.
imo, Ready Player One Movie, is about just as good as the book in its own way.
Oh hell no, the how to train your dragon books were so damn good. The movies just have a completely different story
I agree, I got shivers as I read the books. Didn't happen for me with the movies.
The Godfather, Jaws, LA Confidential, and The Town are all better movies than books.
Shrek and Forrest Gump
Bullet Train, the book and the movie almost feel like entirely different stories, and while I did enjoy the book I like the movie way better
Hot take but Dune the movies were immensely better than the books imo
I’m invested in the audiobook of the first book of the Dune series and it’s good but it’s pretty dry (on par with the landscape) at some parts. The movies are really good and they are some of the only future movies I look forward to. I have heard the movies changed important things but I’m waiting to see for myself if it matters.
Movies are like fantasy vampires that are so pretty while books are like real vampires that you suddenly realize you never want to meet in the dark.
My initial thought on reading your comment was that I needed to go on a long tirade about how wrong you are.
The longer I think about it though. Think that view is just biased from nostalgia's sake as the Dune books were my first real fantasy-scifi epic I ever read as a kid.
The movies are really amazing, the actors, writing, music. The only nit pick I can make about the movies is by cutting out the scene with the guild at the end of the second movie. Was kinda silly as that scene explains how the Fremen army is able to go to war with the other worlds. By leaving it out, just looks like a giant plot hole.
That and calling the Jihad a Crusade.
I would highly recommend people reading some of Frank Herbert's other works that you're not going to get a movie version of... Maybe skip the whipping star incident, the sequel to it is fine though.
Starship Troopers
Book: Why do we need to learn to use a knife when we have nukes?
Philosophical monologue about the necessity of being both dangerous so even when you're out of bombs and bullets you still have a knife and can continue fighting, but equally important is the need for a measured response. Not every threat requires a nuke or even a bullet. Don't use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
Movie: Why do we need a knife in a nuke fight?
(Throws knife into his hand) You see, if you disable the enemies hand he is unable to press the button... Medic!
I know you weren't asking me but for this Holes, Batman Under The Red Hood, and Spider-Man no way home were definitely better than the original source material
The Shining
Fight Club.
Definitely How to Train Your Dragon. The books are just goofy fun for middle schoolers. No big serious emotional story there. The dragons are small as fuck too, non threatening. The books doesn't have any of the emotions or the stakes of the movies, it's simply a set of stories of hiccup goofing around with Toothless (who's like the size of a cat btw) written for little kids
Lord of the Rings. The books are so boring, i wasted money on illustrated hc versions. Movies also handle Aragorn waaaaay better and thank the fuck there was no Tom Bombadilo. I also read a lot of fantasy so it's not that i don't get it or something.
Holy ragebait
My genuine opinion.
The writers deserve story credit, not the director (unless they had a hand in writing, which they often do).
What works in a book doesn’t necessarily work on film, and changes are basically mandatory when converting a story to a different format. This can go well or poorly, and keeping the original author on staff can help or hurt the process depending on how amenable they are to certain changes. The Lord of the Rings films would never have happened had Tolkien been alive, but the story changes made the films far better than had they been a literal adaptation of excellent books.
movie writer for the last 200 years:
Adapting a written work is hard to do right, thats why there are many bad ones and why the really good ones get “best adaptation” awards.
the writer of the movie is very very important
but the director is even more important as he is the one that brings the story to life, work with the actors, create the movie set ect.
a documentary that could show just how important a good director is is the god father documentary that showed how everything is made, how an actor found a cat they just decided to put it in the scene.
tdlr
the writer writes the book on how to perform the surgeory
but
the director is the one that performs the surgeory both are very important
We’re talking about Books, not screenplays bro and they’re not medical journals.
I mean with some movies I understand that the Director get so much credit. My favorite examples are Lord of the rings and dune.
Why isn't it fair? It's two different media, two different skill sets. The author gets their paycheck for selling the rights and usually a nice publicity boost. It's not like that author is qualified to direct a movie based on their book (the only case I know of this happening is Stephen Chbosky, who already had a background in film), nor is the director necessarily the right person to write the original book.
Mary Shelley watching countless adaptations bastardize Frankenstein and turn it into an “Ooh scary evil monster movie” instead of the analysis on parenthood, love and loss, and the human condition that it was always meant to be. Save us Guillermo Del Toro... save us.
This is what ive felt with dawid fincher movies
Now it's war, you wanted a sequel, but there won't be one
And when people say they read the book when they only saw the movie
Chuck Palahniuk and his Fight Club. Though, Chuck said that the movie is better because it could show many small things that the book couldn't.
And everytime some Utuber acts like READING THE STORY is somehow a more amazing accomplishment then the stories themselves most often created by someone else who gets no credit... :) :) :)
(fortunately, after lots of critique on that point, many Utubers now give props to the writers)
They need to make something that matches and book AND work well as a movie. It ain't that easy my man
I wanted to keep you alive, but you asked for it
- silently walks to the courthouse *
"Book writers".... seriously?
They're fucking called AUTHORS. JFC
AND this specific meme is hilarious because Oppenheimer was based on American prometheus
J.K Rowling for the total win here.
If I would be a teacher, then I would make a multiple choice test where every answer is the same letter, just to mess with the students. Of course only once per class
When your imagination builds the house but the director gets the architectural award.
When your imagination builds the sex plot with the Playboy supermodel but the 80 years old billionaire gets the award
it's the ultimate 'I did all the group project work, but someone else presented it' feeling.