You might wonder how a movie can ruin a
book but it’s happened for me before. I was reading a certain middle grade
series (not Harry Potter, btw) and had read the first three books before I
watched the movie which I didn’t like at all, especially the actors and
suddenly when I tried to read book 4 I had those actors in my head instead of
the version of the characters I’d imagined before. It took me almost half of
the fourth book to get past that and it frustrated me because I LOVED the
books.
So when I heard that The Hunger Games would
be a movie I was equal parts excited and worried but after having seen teasers
of the movie I’m hopeful that it’ll belong to the good book-to-movie adaptions.
Before I wrote this post I’ve been thinking
about movies based on books that I liked and my list is short, mainly because
there aren’t many movies I’ve seen that were based on books that I’ve read. But
there are three movies that come immediately to my mind when I think about
fantastic adaptions.
Harry Potter
I loved the books and the movies. I’ve read
and seen both more times than I can count. Of course the movies didn’t reach the
brilliance of the books but that’s to be expected.
Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
I’ve read all three books and watched all
three movies. I’m talking about the original Swedish version and it was
fabulous. Lisbeth Salander almost looked exactly how I’d imagined her. I’m
planning to watch the US
The Lord of the Rings
Here I’m cheating a bit because I haven’t
read the books (gasp!) but my husband has and he told me that the movies do the books
justice. And I absolutely love the Lord of the Rings movies and can’t wait for
The Hobbit movie!
4 comments:
The three you mentioned are my favorite book to movie adaptations as well. I sometimes wish that Peter Jackson would re-do the Eragon series. He did such a great job with Lord of the Rings and I think he could do a fantastic job with Eragon.
I agree with Anita--I loved the Eragon book but the movie was disappointing, to say the least. I also have to agree that the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies were fantastic adaptations.
Of course, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings have to be included on my list as well. I can't imagine any better adaptations.
Gone with the Wind was a pretty good adaptation and so were the Anne of Green Gables films. Not perfect, but then again, I've yet to see an absolutely perfect one (though LOTR does come close for me).
I'm hoping that Austenland lives up to the book because it's one of my favorites and I'd hate to see it poorly done.
I haven't read Eragon and haven't seen the movie. Maybe I should give the book a try soon!
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