#Books To Screen Adaptations

[imthefailedartist]

Carrie is fat in the book. Learning that completely blew me.

The use of pigs blood makes so much more sense. The reason she was bullied so relentlesly, even though she does nothing to nobody, makes so much more sense. The relationship with her mother makes so much more sense.

I know they aren't going to, but I wish they would cast someone fat in this new Carrie adaptation. From the articles I've seen, they are already speculating which skinny actress it's going to be.

How many times can they tell the story the same exact way? The answer: endlessly.

I don't know what's worse the total erasure of fat people in movies or the only story we get to see ourselves in are the love yourself fatty movies.

[linusbenjamin]

Pride and Prejudice S1.E1 | 1995 Adapted by Andrew Davies

[blessphemy]

the murderbot ao3 tag having 71% "gen" fic at 2,650/3,734 works does make it pretty unique and special as far as fandoms go. i can't imagine a lot of other fandoms have stats like that. i expect this high percentage of gen will shrink over time as the fandom gets larger but it still tickles me as a snapshot in this moment. i just think it's neat 🥔.

this has been a fandom that got me to realize just how much i actually really love genfic, both reading it and writing it. it's been a very enriching realization for me personally. and then as a genfic writer it's been nice to be in a fandom where genfic is celebrated on equal footing with shipfic.

also, "other" being the next biggest category at 19%, followed by "F/F" at 3%, "multi" at 2%, "M/M" at 2%, and "F/M" dead last at 1%..... this fandom is truly doing it Cool style. (and fun fact: the first F/M murderbot fic is a Reylo crossover lmaoo)

[counting-stars-gayly]

This might be a hot take, but I actually like that Percy figured out Luke was the traitor at the last minute. There were A LOT of clues that would’ve been hard to ignore, and he ignored them for as long as he could. And it’s clear that even after accusing Luke, he’s still surprised and heartbroken at Luke’s confirmation of his suspicions. He was holding out hope, guys!!

Also, the Betrayal Scene flows better as an exchange of dialogue and a swordfight than it did, in the books, as a monologue and a scorpion sting. This also leaves a bigger impact on the viewers and characters because it’s more emotional.

[dogzcats]

pride & prejudice: from book to movie

[professorhayforbreath]

also sorry but i'm not sold on "they only have 8 episodes" as a defense for why the show is falling flat as both a show and an adaptation. 8 episodes is roughly 5 hours. that's 3 hours more than most movies lol. that should be plenty of time to adapt all the most important things, they're just not using their screen time as well as they could be. sorry i don't think it should actually be this hard to fit the essential core of the lightning thief's story and characters into 5 hours. the movie and musical were both 2 hours give or take and they still did certain things better. skill issue

[secretsofthewilde]

Hey wtf do you mean next year will be 100 years since we got a mainstream book accurate film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera?

[ibismessage]

Things I'm looking forward to in the Lunar Chronicles animated Films:

All of the 'SHE'S MINE' Wolf memes that will inevitably happen.

In fact, I know the alpha thing will be meme'd to hell, and I'm so excited for that.

The fight scenes. I just love to imagine Cinder using her cybernetic limbs as weapons.

Cress' opera shower scene

Iko. That's all.

The CLOTHES. Fanart has set my expectations extremely high for the blend of traditional and futuristic clothing.

I'm so curious how they will present the lunar manipulation powers.

[moonstarsinfinity]

NOBODY TALK TO ME 😭✋️

[jakeperalta]

(this isn't a question about the best p&p adaptation ever, it is simply which you prefer OUT OF THESE TWO OPTIONS since they are the two most commonly talked about and compared!!)

[katabay]

🌸🕶 sketch page :)

I draw so much dead romans art on my other blog I straight up forgot how shirt collars worked and had to spend a few days re learning the muscle memory for it lmao

anyway. I miss. them…..I think it may be time for a rewatch of the Abyss movie….

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[philtstone]

ironically reflecting the stories' philosophical differences movie arwen & movie chani are both given onscreen agency that they did not have in the books by playing precisely inverse narrative roles that are yet equally integral to the externalization of plot and theme in their respective films in this essay i will

[dogzcats]

EMMA. (2020): from book to screen

[nothinggold13]

I know we are generally Wary of Greta Gerwig’s take on Narnia, but in the light of her co-producer saying it will be “all about rock and roll,” let us PLEASE take a moment to realize 1) the statement is antithetical to everything Gerwig herself has said about adapting the books, and 2) it doesn’t… really… mean… anything. It sounds like the kind of statement someone might say if they don’t want you to actually be able to guess what they’re doing.

Greta Gerwig has talked about looking at her adaptations as a collaboration with her childhood self and C. S. Lewis— neither of which are going to be telling her to bring literal rock and roll into the equation.

This is not me saying that everyone should have 100% faith in her, but, goodness gracious, this is the last thing we should be reading anything into. 😮‍💨

[darcyolsson]

watched the catching fire movie p much right after reading the book and I genuinely think I've never seen an adaptation this faithful, with all of the changes to the story only really being the ones strictly necessary for a different format of storytelling. HOWEVER there was one choice I don't understand and that's that they did keep in the part where everyone acted really weird around katniss (johanna stripping naked, chaff kissing her, finnick's sugarcube flirting) but then didn't explain that it's because they were trying to get her attention as someone who defied the capitol, so it just looks like they're extremely weird for absolutely no reason 😭

[astraeajackson]

OMG IMAGINE HOW GOOD A THE NATURALS TV SERIES WOULD LOOK