Not any book fiction or nonfiction can be a movie, because in some cases the book says things which is difficult to be converted to a movie, yes the characters are either inspired by life or they are really existed but a book should have some conditions to be a movie one of these conditions is the dramatic events or also you can say the unusual events which can give the movie a first step towards success, but in the case of "The Kite Runner", the book has all the requirements to be converted to a movie and a successful one.
The book is a really genuine one and has illustrated the Afghani culture form all the aspects possible to be included in an around 200 pages novel, through its narrator the 38 years old novelist Amir who had told us his story in a very exciting sequence of events since he was a child until he had become a half famous novelist in America.
Only the first flashback of Amir in the beginning of the movie was that important to build the while movie on it, other flashbacks where just to illustrate the time factor on the characters, going back to the first flashback when Amir and his wife in their apartment in America received a phone call from Afghanistan, that flashback took us to the whole story behind this famous novelist in America, from where he is, what kind of life he used to live back home, and so on.
I have been always told that" you must read a book, then you watch the movie, and here you will get the maximum pleasure from both", in the case of The Kite Runner I think it's different, because I have watched the movie and immediately after the end of it I walked to the nearest book store and bought the book, the movie is a truly good presentation of the book, when you turn the pages you see each and every scene from the movie exactly like sitting in the cinema and watching it again.
Some books as I mentioned above cannot become a movie like the Davinci Code which according to reviews in the Telegraph and personal blogs of some crtitiques had not add anything to the book but on the contrary many people because of the book and it's huge number of selling went to watch the movie but after that they said that the movie had been advertised in a way which it doesn’t deserve.
Watching a movie is different than reading a book in many ways, when any filmmaker wants to make a movie he/she should be stuck to 1 and a hal or 2 hours and also should grab the audience attention from the first 15 minutes otherwise the movie will fail to cover even its costs.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
An Analysis of a movie adapted from a book
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Well, I didn’t see “the kite runner” movie nor read the book. But regarding the Davinci Code I read the book then I saw the film. The book was very very long and full of details about Christianity, I will not say that it wasn’t exciting to know these things about Christianity, but still it is boring for a novel to turn into an educational book on some chapters. On the other hand the movie was a shortened story, they just took the events and convert it into the movie we saw, leaving the long long details of the religion to those how would like to know it.
Both the book and the movie have there times and situations. When you want excitement watch the movie, when want to know more about the secrets and complications of the religion then read the book!
As for me, I like to watch the movie then read the book, the reason is that some films are poorly acted and produced; they don’t cover the core of the novel.
For example “Pride and Prejudice”, I read the book and watched the two movies, the one that was produced by BBC and the one that was produced on 2005.
The BBC movie as usual follows the book precisely, which result in 8 hours movie!!
While the 2005 film was just for money, in the film I didn’t feel the spirit of Jane Austen in the film, nor the pride that the characters Mr. Darcy and Miss bennet carries all along the book!
Not to forget the famous Harry potter series, where every director produced the movie from his point of view! The worst was the fourth part; there was a very big gap between the book and the movie. The fifth films was quite good, it succeeded in covering the 600 pages in almost 2 hours which was great, I didn’t feel that I lost something between them.
I think when the author takes part in the production; he/she gives the book spirit to the movie.
Sorry for my long comment.
Nice post!
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