Introduction

Books x Films: An Introduction for a New World

Books that are converted in films aren’t always accepted successfully by fans. I guess I think differently about that transition, and I don’t get very disappointed when I get out from the cinema. If you stop to think, the movie is based on the book, and it’s not made especially for fans. The point is: the producers have to make a cool movie, that could attract a person who is not a fan, and even make him/her read the book! Besides, they have a time limit to comply, it’s impossible to put everything that is written in 400 pages  in one movie.

Moreover, movies make a book even more realistic, you get a concrete character, in a concrete place, you see and feel what you’ve read, you get a different sensation of the one from the book. About that detail from the book that is not in the movie? Some things are not translatable, but I know people still get sad about that (including me).

Just like in everything, we have films and films. Some are perfect, some are acceptable and others are horrible. Nothing to declare about the perfect ones, because they are rare and, well, perfect. About the acceptable ones: the majority. Those ones have some things, details usually, that changes other bigger thing, and make the film a bit distorted. Horrible films: seriously, the producers didn’t read the books and tried to make the films. The only similarity are the names of the characters. How could an author approve those? I wouldn’t.

                                                                                                                                               Ana Tofetti