Bookworms and Movie Maniacs : Literary adaptations in cinema

iView Author:Aditya Mani Jha
(Kharagpur, India)
EMAIL: amj91288[at] gmail [dot] com

Title: Bookworms and Movie Maniacs : Literary adaptations in cinema

Following are three out of the five nominees for the Best Film Academy Award: Atonement, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood.(No Country For Old Men finally got the nod from the Academy sages.)

In case you are wondering what are the ties which bind the trio, the answer is they are all literary adaptations , based on novels by Ian McEwan, Cormac McCarthy and Upton Sinclair, respectively. Although adapted screenplays are not a new thing, the recent trend shows an upsurge like never before. So what is it that attracts writers and directors to bring out the reading glasses?

For one, one of the biggest hurdles of filmmaking is easily overcome when you have an engrossing story on hand. While some directors prefer …


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Books to Cinema - A Journey Through Mediums

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ANIRUDH JAYARAM
(NAVI MUMBAI, INDIA)

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Books to CINEMA - A Journey through Mediums

Dear fellow bloggers, today I read an article on PFC about Guide. This set me thinking about movies based on books.

Hollywood has a grand tradition of movies made on books. From “To kill a mocking bird”, “Ben Hur”, “The Wizard Of Oz”, and so many great films to the Star Wars series, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, and the Harry potter series, all of them have been based on books. Just for reference, the LOTR books were written by J.R.R.Tolkien and the Harry Potter books by J.K.Rowling. Now you have movies based on the “Inheritance Trilogy” by Christopher Paolini, the first of which was Eragon, and a movie on C.S.Lewis’s “The Chronicles Of Narnia”, the second movie of which is scheduled to be released soon. Even Roald …


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