The Commencing Thoughts

For a long time screen writers have taken the incredible novels cooked up by authors and transformed them into works that can be made into movies. Many different perspectives come into play in situations like this. There is the reader, the watcher or maybe the one who experiences both versions of the story. But no matter which way one experiences the stories there is something to be said from each perspective.

Many claim that the book is always better than the movie, this is often a true statement simply because it is very difficult for movies to live up to the images inside one's imagination while reading a good book . Every once in a while though it is possible see a movie and admit that it really did encompass the essence of the book very well. There are also times though when one will go and see a movie and not really even realize that this story was a work of art before it even reached the screen and that is in fact why it even is a movie today.

It is my hope that this blog will give some praise to the movies that do their best to compete with every readers imagination, give some praise to the novels that originally captured enough readers hearts to get screen writers attention, but most of all praise the authors of the novels who without them and their imagination neither book nor movie would be possible.