Everything is being made into a movie! I mean can’t screen writers come up with anything these days? Must they rely on authors to do their dirty work?
Exhibit A
Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging I remember going to the library during Intermediate and coming across this.. charming book. It was quite in my face because by then after reading Mates Dates and… by Cathy Hopkins, I knew what “snogging” actually meant. NOW nine years after the book was first published the movie comes out! OH JOY!
I have nothing against the movie, its just the fact that while I was looking through the “Coming soon” list on Hoyts I discovered a handful of books that have been turned into movies. Books allow us to use our imagination to picture what the author is trying to illustrate through his/her writing, when you make that into something permanent it hinders what we think because instead of LETTING us thing its thinking FOR us. Which moves me on to:
Exhibit B
Does this book need an introduction? It’s the next best thing since Harry Potter to put it lightly and now its A MOVIE! Dear Edward Cullen has a face and its none other than Cedric Diggory from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The pros and cons of having a book being made into a movie is quite simple, cons: for those who had their own image of Edward Cullen in their heads look all tall dark and…. pale can now render that image to the face of Robert Pattinson pros: if you didn’t have your own image of what Edward Cullen might look like, you have Robert Pattinson’s face to think about~ (I rather like my own Edward Cullen better then Robert Pattinson)
EXHIBIT C: Just to show what the movie industry is coming to
G.I. Joe I remember when I was a kid, he was just another Action Man but is Action Man being made into a movie? (Who knows these days). The star of the new movie which is to be released in cinemas next year is none other then Channing Tatum (She’s the Man, Step Up). Should I just assume this is going to be another X-men? Batman? Spiderman? What is Hollywood thinking? G.I. Joe was a comic before and it was also made into a movie in 1985 but when I think of G.I.Joe I have the annoying commercial of an action figure.
This brings me back to my main point which I seemed to have lost/never stated properly: the amount of movies that were originally books, comics, actions figures? are increasing, obviously I don’t think it has ever stopped. All movies seem to originate from something which makes me wonder if anything is original anymore.
