Comments on: Adaptations that Change Books Endings Ruin the Movie

By: Darrick Bradac

Darrick Bradac — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:29:33 +0000

You will find there’s noticeably a lot of money to understand this. I assume you made certain nice points in features also.

By: Jul On

Jul On — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:28:30 +0000

I dislike it when they change the ending, but I hate it when they put a title over a movie where they have completely changed the entire story. Or remember what they did to the Relic? Butchered during the edit!!
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By: frank

frank — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:42:42 +0000

I COMPLETELY agree!!!
Actually it really bothers me and more often than not kills my movie going experiences. I think it smacks of no talent egotistical arrogance when a director/screenwriter takes a well known story and warps it to what he beleives it should be. They go with these stories because they already have a following rather than taking a chance on an original piece, i consider them “film maker Whores”. As a history enthusiast I especialy despise this when Historical films are made and they change the story, characters, relationships, costumes, settings, to make it “work” …or make it “cooler”.. a certain amount of “fill in the blanks”
and adaption to modern sensability Is understandable.
But when they take something like The battle of thermopolae *sp.. and barf out “300″ or the works of homer and spew out something like troy …I just get disgusted. Or changing names sizes and anatomy of dinosaurs in the fossil record to make such nonesense as jurassic park, Since that film there are entire generation of children who aref filled with false facts that they eventually are embarrassed to find out are not true (my own nephews did this and were upset to find out the truth on a trip to the museum).
I am in the film business and hope to eventually make my own films one day.. and one of my dreams is to attempt to take events in history and portray them with as much accuracy as the facts will offer, i beleive there is a responsibility to teach accurate history and literature through films. If you cant stick to the truth then just create an original story,instead you become a peddler of lies to suit your own ego, and bank account. shame on these hacks.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:31:07 +0000

@Nicole I agree Nicole, I understand how for movie purposes some aspects of the book needs to be changed, but to entirely change characters, stories, completely ruins the book. Might as well just title it something else.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:36:04 +0000

I know what you mean about getting a visual for the characters you’ve thought of…but I certainly wasn’t picturing Tom Hanks as the main guy in Davinci Code. Ugh!

Directors need to keep the endings the way they are. I think stories have enough wiggle room that the director can put their signature on their work without changing the main idea or meaning. Otherwise, it’s not an adaptation of the book anymore, is it?
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