Compare and Contrast Movies

Movies based on Biographies vs. Movies based on Novels

All movies are extremely hard and expensive to make, but lately it seems that the most difficult to make correctly are movies based on books. Biographies are an extremely popular genre to recreate, although when viewing these pictures, you must remember that in Hollywood nothing is ever as it seems. An equally popular genre to blow up on the big screen in the past decade or so is fiction novels, yet again not everything may be as it seems. You can get information and enjoyment out of both genres of movie and book but to be safe you should always read the book because with Hollywood you never know what you are going to get!

When making biographical novels into silver screen bio-pics Hollywood tends to get a little “overzealous” with their versions of the story. Why, you ask? ; Because a Hollywood writer took their own liberties to glorify the person the books was about, or add a more crowd-pleasing twist to the story. In today’s culture, in order for Hollywood to make any money they have to completely change the stories they are telling. If the general populous have not read the book or heard of the story, most will not care about the facts so it makes it easier for the studios to embellish.

Another hugely popular genre is the Fiction novel that has been created into a movie. You can’t go anywhere without seeing a poster of a movie that says “based on the best-selling novel…” When making a fiction novel into a book, the writers are trying to jam a three hundred-plus page book into an hour and a half movie. Things have to be cut out; usually it’s the small things like a scene that wasn’t necessary to the plot of the story. Along with bio-pics, movies based on novels are there to make money, and if the majority of the population wants to see something changed, it’s going to get changed, no matter what the fans that read the book a million times think. It is rare, but sometimes making changes to the plot...