Film Adaptation

               I, being the stereotypical teenage girl, have only seen the film adaptations that almost every other person has seen too. Harry Potter, Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey, etc. Fun fact: I never even read Twilight or Fifty Shades, and I only read five and a half Harry Potter books. I can tell you why too. I love movies. I like going to see them, and I like…liking movies. And I have always been afraid that if I read the book, it will ruin the movies for me. Not the other way around like most people.

                Now, I did read all of The Hunger Games books. Then I saw all of the movies. I wasn’t disappointed. I think they did really well adapting the movie to the books. In my opinion, all of the actors that played the characters were chosen wisely and I think the screenwriting was done impeccably. That being the only series of books I’ve ever truly completed, I can’t really speak for other series.

              Something people don’t talk about a lot is TV series. My absolute favorite television show to ever exist is The Vampire Diaries. I didn’t know until season 2 that it was based off of a series of books. When I found out, I looked them up and I almost cried. It was like a disgrace to the television show (to me at least, I’m sure to the author it’s the other way around).  Characters had kids that didn’t have kids in the show, they were all described to look completely different than they did in the show, and it was horrifying. Pretty Little Liars is another television series that was based off of a series of books. Just knowing people that have read it and then seen it, it’s also completely different than the books. Mind you, that show has had 10 seasons and NEVER ends. They just keep making new things up and drag it out because it’s popular. It remained true to the books like 10% of the time, from what people have told me.

                Knowing all of that, I think film adaptations are typically well-received more often than TV series, at least for those who read the books first. Honestly I haven’t read enough books that have been adapted to tell you whether or not it works majority of the time. I’ll tell you how American Psycho goes.