Can You Really NOT compare the two???
Okay so Paula Hawkins’ phenomenon The Girl on the Train has been adapted into a film and as much as I loved the book (see review) do I really want to see the film? The trailer has obviously upped the thriller element, but how can the psychological elements be transferred onto the big screen??? Do I dare go and see it, to see if it has stayed true to the book?
As a literature student, in my final year we were taught the two versions should never be compared, since the film takes an element from the book and puts it on the big screen. To fully translate the book into a film, we as viewers would be sat reading the book on the screen at the cinema. Recent filmic translations Veronica Roth’s Divergent and Insurgent have stayed true to the source material, albeit the Jeanne role played by Kate Winslet was upped. The Hammer produced took The Woman in Black from Susan Hill’s book and turned it on its head. The basic premise remained but the outcomes were changed and of course it was made scarier. Isn’t the book scary enough?
I have yet to see the 2004 adaptation of Sophie Kinsella’s The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic, because I fell in love with Becky Bloomwood and did not know how the film could do her justice. The fact they merged the second shopaholic book: Shopaholic Abroad into it and changed the title to The Confessions of a Shopaholic did not do itself any favours. John Green’s The Fault in our Stars, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga and JK Rowlings’ Harry Potter films kept both film and book buffs happy. Even though there were certain aspects and characters missed out; they did not do any real harm.
So do I go and see it with an open mind? It will be impossible not to compare it!!!!
HHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPP!
Okay so Paula Hawkins’ phenomenon The Girl on the Train has been adapted into a film and as much as I loved the book (see review) do I really want to see the film? The trailer has obviously upped the thriller element, but how can the psychological elements be transferred onto the big screen??? Do I dare go and see it, to see if it has stayed true to the book?
As a literature student, in my final year we were taught the two versions should never be compared, since the film takes an element from the book and puts it on the big screen. To fully translate the book into a film, we as viewers would be sat reading the book on the screen at the cinema. Recent filmic translations Veronica Roth’s Divergent and Insurgent have stayed true to the source material, albeit the Jeanne role played by Kate Winslet was upped. The Hammer produced took The Woman in Black from Susan Hill’s book and turned it on its head. The basic premise remained but the outcomes were changed and of course it was made scarier. Isn’t the book scary enough?
I have yet to see the 2004 adaptation of Sophie Kinsella’s The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic, because I fell in love with Becky Bloomwood and did not know how the film could do her justice. The fact they merged the second shopaholic book: Shopaholic Abroad into it and changed the title to The Confessions of a Shopaholic did not do itself any favours. John Green’s The Fault in our Stars, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga and JK Rowlings’ Harry Potter films kept both film and book buffs happy. Even though there were certain aspects and characters missed out; they did not do any real harm.
So do I go and see it with an open mind? It will be impossible not to compare it!!!!
HHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPP!
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