So I watched "Speak" on Youtube (God, how I love Youtube) and between waiting for my wheezy old computer to buffer and loading the separate parts of the movie, I was wondering about book to movie adaptions.
"Speak" turned out, as a movie, didn't fulfill my expectations of the book, which seems to be the case nowadays. We Pottermanics groan and weep over the inaquadete adaption from paper to screen (they missed the whole chapter in PoA that was the most central to the plot!!!) and I won't even comment on the Eragon film made two years ago.
True, some aren't so bad. I've watched both "The Notebook" and "A Walk to Remember" after reading the books, and I think that the screenwriters did a very good job of them. Classics written by Jane Austen also look very good on-screen.
I've already given up on the Harry Potter movie coming out later this year, but my hopes for "Twilight" aren't dashed yet, and although they were cut a bit after Emmett's line in the trailer *shudder*, the scene from MTV Movie Awards rose them back up several notches.
Here's the first ten minutes of "Speak" from Youtube.
1 comment:
Yeah, I watched Speak, It was alright, better than most Book-Movie adaptions, but the book is nearly always better. There might be some exceptions to that. I can't think of any though.
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