Well it looks like its that time of year again, a time when we intentionally seek new thrilling ways to scare ourselves. Whether it be curling up on the couch with the typical bowl of popcorn, a blanket, lights down low, a couple of friends and you watching the endless classic horror film marathons. Even going out to Halloween parties, haunted houses/ hay rides, reading books etc...
In addition, as many people know some of the most popular horror films were based off books. The film director would take a popular horror fiction and make a movie out of it. But unfortunately, like in most movies,some of the key parts are left out of the film or in some cases even altered. The different alternate endings and added love stories added to appeal to the audience but take away the thrill of the story.
Although what makes this different is the fact that while reading a book your visualizing what happening page by page. It's almost as if your there and you have no clue what's going to happen next until you turn to the next page. The detail in which things are described are horrific, breathtaking and chilling.
Now a days it seems as though many people are far more interestd in watching that scary movie . They have forgotten the thrill of reading a a classic horror story such as Dracula, IT, Frankenstein and many more. People much rather bore there eyes on endless tv, but remember where many of your movies come from.
In my view point, nowadays directors are just looking for their next paycheck. If a book becomes popular, everyone wants to make a movie out of it. Like you said before, they want to appeal to a vase verity of audiences so they alter the plot. This in return doesn't give the books its full credit.
ReplyDeleteI am in complete agreement. As a devoted bookworm, I feel a knife twist everytime a book is made into a movie because I just know it won't be right! Directors and writiers always alter, cut, edit, and alter again which corrupts the book that seemed perfect the way it was.
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