Why a Book Turned Movie Will Never Be as Good as the Book

                Books turned into movies… let’s admit it, they all suck. There hasn’t really been any good movies based of books. There are just so many things wrong with these movies but who can really blame them. Trying to turn a book into a movie is a lot harder than it seems.

First off, they have to try to fit an entire novel or series which can take up to multiple days to read, into a few movies each about two hours long. So they can’t do everything that the book has. Another problem with the time constraint is that they can have the exact amount of detail that the book has because if they do it wouldn’t make a very exciting movie. And that leads into my next point keeping the movie entertaining.

The job of a movie is to keep you entertained so when you have an entire book to pick your scenes from you are probably going to pick the more exciting scenes then the scenes that just are pure dialogue. But the problem with this is that the scenes that are mainly dialogue are what helps movie the story along so when you have just a movie with only the most exciting scenes from a book you get nowhere near the level or story telling that book gives.

The next things is having to add scenes to a movie that weren’t in the book to begin with. Now if this is done correctly and works with the story then you are fine most people won’t be upset except the obsessed fans, but most of times these scenes aren’t done correctly. When this happens it can lead to a major plot hole or completely change the story entirely. The reason I think directors do this is to make the story more exciting but most of the time it just makes the movie worse.

Now let me say there are exceptions to this idea. But the only two exceptions to this rule that I know of is the Harry Potter series, and any book written by John Greene, and the reason why they are so good is because they stay to the original plot and don’t change much. I know with the movies based on books written by John Greene they had him come in and watch filming to make sure they were staying true to they story.

So in my opinion will movies based on books be ever as good as the books? Probably not. Now maybe it could happen but I don’t see it happening because just with how long and detailed books are I don’t think they will ever be truly portrayed correctly in movies.