Dear John, Book vs Movie

Author Nicholas Sparks added to his list of best sellers with the novel Dear John. Dear John is a love story, love stories make gravid money in movie form, so the novels are popular to make into a movie. Books and movies are two forms of entertainment that are closely related and we swing the differences among them. There are many similarities between the two, but there are also major differences.If one has never read a novel and therefore watched the movie version of the novel they may not have experienced this comparison and contrast to the the two forms Even though Dear John contains similarieties and differences the substance still remains the same.. Love. The first major contrast is that each form has a different causation. Nicholas Sparks wrote the novel and Jamie Linden turned the novel into a screenplay which was past directed by Lasse Hallstrom.Sparks has written both the novel and screenplays for some of his other works but turned the screenplay writing over to Jamie Linden for this project. When there is a separate author on the novel and screenplay the initial story is almost certain to be written differently based on the second authors adaptation of the pilot light authors work. In some instances there is a third interpretation with a director of the movie. A lot can go wrong when the original story is interpreted differently by the author that writes the screenplay and a director that then directs.Michael O Sullivan of The Washington Post, wrote in a review of the movie, I moot our relationship is in trouble. O Sullivan is trying to get across to the reader of this article that the movies story has problems and disappoints him as a viewer. A. O. Scott of the NY time reports that Jamie Linden is careful to respect the vague, whispery tones of Mr. Sparks writing but did however, change the books ending in a way that both deepens and blunts its impact.The author of the book or movie explains themes, symbols, and the main plot in different w ays. Movies may be easier for the audiences to visualize the story, but, books may leave room for readers to use their suffer imagination. Ending change is another major contast of these two forms of Dear John. The book version The author of the book or movie explains themes, symbols, and the main plot in different ways. Movies may be easier for the audiences to visualize the story, but, books may leave room for readers to use their own imagination.