Novel to Movie Phenomenon

Last few years, Hollywood brought more novel worlds into reel. They chose good and best sellers novels, hired best crews and movie stars and got their money back immediately. Why do the producers pick such way? The scriptwriters are lack out of story? The producers don’t wanna take risks so they make movie form story people already knew?

I think so. It is of the reasons. Just as comic to movie and sequels, the producers will have more money easily. Most people who have read it, go to the movie. Plus, people who haven’t read it production house will get double.

Besides, I – as novel reader and OK, I’m a bookworm – feel curious, very curious with the world inside the book. The scenery, the costumes, the interactions between, the fight, the love scene. What will it look like? Is it bad, good enough or superb? Does it have to be directed by other person to make it better? And the most important, how does the main characters look like?

Sometimes, it’s better not to take it to reel. The authors have written it as good as they can and brought us such a wonderful world. Our imaginations are dancing when we read. Each of us doesn’t have the same imaginations. We can’t blame others if they have different imaginations because we can’t see their minds. It’s the best thing from novel.

We said book “X” is very good. Two thumbs up. In few weeks, it became one of best sellers of the year. The producer saw good opportunity in it and bla bla bla… the next year, the movie is on screen. People who have read it, wants to see the movie. But, what if – we feel – the director didn’t transform it well? We say the movie didn’t suit our imaginations. It is not the same with what we’ve thought. The movie will break the beauty of the novel.

I think you know what movies I mean. Should I mention them?

Sorry, no offense. This is just my opinion.

Confused

I’m sitting alone in cafe, waiting for my brother at the gym. Hungry and thinking the plots of my novel. I've written them in my journal. But I have to re-think to have a good story.
AAAHHHHH....!!! I'm sooo... confused.
Many ideas and many ways but I don't feel they fit in. I like reading novels and watching movies to get ideas for my own story.
I know what you're saying. It's not enough, isn't it? People say you have to keep writing to let your story flowing and you can have your own style. That is my purpose now.
It's easy to say but so hard to do. One thing in my mind, if we want something, we have to keep our mind focus and never give up. That's my promise.
Every time I go to bookstore - and I always go to bookstore whenever I go to mall, I always want to see one of my novels there. Of course, it's still in my dream. But I hope I don't have to wait too long *crossing fingers*

+++ sai with smile +++

Twilight, a novel by Stephenie Meyer

Bella Swan’s move to Forks could have been the most boring move she ever made. But when she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, her life take a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella.

Simple. That was the first thing in my mind. First love of a girl and a boy in high school. But once you read it, you can’t stop til you reach the core. Human girl-vampire “boy” forbidden love and the complexity of their existence. I’m so old school. I’ve just read this in mid October. Oh, poor me. I can’t hardly wait to read the sequel. Stephenie Meyer described Edward Cullen perfectly gorgeous. His face, his skin, his mysterious personality, his body, his angelic voice. Uh, make me melted to the very bone.

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Digital Fortress, a novel by Dan Brown

Whose gonna watch the watcher?

When the NSA’s most classified technological wonder – an invincible code-breaking machine – encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power.

The NSA is begin held hostage… not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it will cripple US intelligence.

Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides she finds herself fighting not only for her country, but her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.

With a starting twist that leaves the agency scrambling to avert the biggest intelligence disaster in US history, Digital Fortress never lets up.
From the underground hallways of power, to the skyscrapers of Tokyo, to the towering cathedrals of Spain, a desperate race unfolds. It is a battle for survival – a crucial bid to destroy a creation of inconceivable genius… an impregnable code-writing formula that threatens to obliterate the balance of power. Forever.

Oh, I like this book. I am an Information Technology alumni so I understand the story. I can imagine how Susan and NSA tried to open a bunch of unclear words because I got encryption lesson in college. I feel the story walked smoothly in the beginning, faster in the middle and then in the fastest pace in the end when there weren’t so much time to avoid hackers from the whole world. This is a very good suspense novel.

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OATHS SWORN . . . loyalties tested . . . forces collide

Brisingr (Christopher Paolini)

Inheritence book 3

Following the colossal battle against the Empire’s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still there is more at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon’s oath to his cousin Roran: to help rescue Roran’s beloved, Katrina, from King Galbatorix’s clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength—as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices— choices that take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once-simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?
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PS: I Love You, a novel by Cecelia Ahern

Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry.

Childhood sweethearts, they could finis each other’s sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other.

Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry’s death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He’s left her a bundle of notes, gently guiding Holly to her new life without him, each note signed “PS: I Love You”.

As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows her better that anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing – and being braver than ever before.

Life is for living, she realizes – but it always helps if there’s an angel watching over you.

This is a very good novel. Cecelia Ahern described Holly’s weaknesses touchy and made her get up with head straight to the future very slowly. The story ran in the same speed from the beginning to the end. Friendship of Holly, Sharon and Denise, showed us that true friends always be there whenever we need them. I cried whne Holly is sad and I laughed when Holly and her friends and family are in comedic situation, like Holly’s birthday. This book make your emotions up and down. I don’t wanna watch the movie because I’m afraid I get my house flooded.

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Coraline, a novel by Neil Gaiman

The door once led to a room, but when the old house was converted into the flats the doorway was bricked up. That is, until the day curious little girl named Coraline sneaks the key from the distracted mother. Opens the door… and enters an alternate universe, where dogs eat nothing but chocolate, cats can talk, and she is greeted enthusiastically by her Other Parents.

Her Other Mother looks quite a bit like her own mother… except for her long spindly fingers and shiny black buttons eyes. – but it’s her disposition that is most remarkable. When her real mother always too busy for Coraline, her Other Mother is attentive and affectionate. She cooks delicious meals, showers the little girl with praise, and asks Coraline to stay with her forever.
But Coraline misses her real parents – tiresome as they sometimes are – and insists on returning to the real world. There, she finds her parents trapped in the hallway mirror, victims of the Other Mother’s evil spell. Now she must take a dangerous journey back into the other world… or risks never seeing her parents again!

Neil Gaiman played with our mind. He made us imagining what another parents and another flat looked like. This is a simple story, good versus evil but in fantasy of children’s form. Kids can open up their imaginations and make their own world of Coraline story. Hollywood is in the process of making this into movie, with Dakota Fanning as Coraline.

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