When reading your favorite book, your imagination runs wild as you picture the characters based on their descriptions on the page.
The next thing you know, you hear of a movie coming out, and you get excited to see your favorite book come to life. However, it can be a huge letdown when the movie comes out, and the characters look nothing like how they are described.
This can upset many fans, frustrate them and even ruin the book.
“Most of the time, the book is better than the movie,” Isabella Meredith said.
Watching the movie before the book could be different, though. It can help someone to imagine the characters, but it is also a struggle to truly enjoy the book because they already know what will happen, so it ruins the element of surprise.
“You get to almost be in your own world when reading the book,” Jenna Olson said.
The book lets readers create things for themselves and assume things from the details they get in a short paragraph.
It is frustrating when they do not cast people in the movies who look even remotely like the fictional characters.
For example, in the Percy Jackson movie series, Annabeth, who is a blonde with gray eyes in the book, is now a brunette with green eyes in the movie. Percy is a blonde with sea-green eyes, almost the color of kelp, and in the film, he is a black-haired guy with dark eyes.
It is flat-out irritating at that point. Creators do not have to be one hundred percent accurate, but they need to resemble the book’s description at least.
Movies also cut out scenes less critical to the storyline because a film can only be so long.
“Not everything can be put in the movie from the book, which is sometimes sad,” Isabella Peterson said.
Sometimes, some of the readers’ favorite scenes get cut out because they are not significant enough for screen time.
Shows are also made based on book series. The ones I have previewed are well-made, such as Percy Jackson and The Olympians, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Pretty Little Liars and more.
Some movies based on books are A Wrinkle in Time, The Hunger Games, After and more. Two of the biggest are Harry Potter and Twilight.
Books let you see more than just the face of what is happening. Sometimes, the reader knows more than the actual characters.
“You get different perspectives from the character in a book,” Avery Bitton said.
Readers are able to see their thoughts on the situation instead of just the facts and everyone else’s opinions on the same subject.
Readers also gain a deeper understanding of who each character is.
