After the adaptation, the only thing they will share will be a story, the setting, and the characters. There are films adapted from books, and then there are films about books By Nicholas A. Basbanes. In 2005 when “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” was released in print form, the movies had already been in production for four years. The results are some of the finest horror films ever made. The plot has become a clichéd hero’s journey story with nothing new to add to the formula. Books For Men, Movies For Women? In fact, nearly 3/4 of men would rather see the movie than reading a novel. Not to be confused with the 2009 film Book of Blood, which adapted a couple of Clive Barker‘s Books of Blood stories, a brand new adaptation of those tales is … Novels and films are such different species that it can feel unnatural to marry them. The following Book-to-Movie discussion will look a little deeper into the elements that work toward transferring words to the screen. Of course, the study also indicated other facts, men read more slowly than women also they generally read less than them. Like so many silver screen successes, the film is also based on a book; in this instance Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, published 77 years prior to its cinematic adaptation. A poll with 2000 British men indicates that men prefer the big screen films to the origin books. The Giver, as a book, has touched, shaped, and delighted the lives of many children and adults, and the film is in no way a replacement of this incredible book.Rather, it is a manifestation of it—the themes, characters, and elements that we all found so compelling. It’s an attempt to enhance the incredible story that Lowry created for us. The 500+ page book was turned into an hour and a half film, an obvious sign that a lot of the book would not make it into the movie. A novel is a completed art form. Here’s a snapshot of how books, magazine articles, short stories, and unpublished works are made into a motion picture or TV deal, along with payment ranges (From Book to Screen – How Dramatic Rights Are Sold). 10 Audition (1999) Audition is arguably one of the most sickening movies to come out of Japan. These are the ten best horror movie adaptations from popular books. One author writes the book, and one reader reads the book one at a time. The film has numerous changes to the plot and characters from the book, making the adaptation barely recognisable. Docu-Drama. Bookmans staff has a deep affection for both mediums and lots and lots of opinions on where film adaptations of novels are successful (and where they fail). One of the better book adaptations to make it on screen has to be Coraline. The film adaptation is at its strongest when it borrows in earnest from its book, which has its own ways of paying homage to the films.