Books turned into Movies!

I don't know about you, but I love movies that originated from a popular or classic book.  Our most recent ones of note have been, "The Hobbit," by J.R.R. Tolkien;  "Wild," by Cheryl Strayed; "Unbroken," by Lauren Hillenbrand;  Sarah's Key," by Tatiana de Rosnay; "Book Thief," by Markus Zukas; "Dove Keepers," by Alice Hoffman; "Life of Pi," by Yann Martel; "The Help," by Kathryn Stockett;  Still Alice," by Lisa Genova; Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins; The Divergent Series by Veronica Roth,

There are thousands of books written daily, but to think that some of the most popular movies of today were first books. What would our movie industry do without the contributions of these wonderful literary genius'?

Next time we think people are not interested in a subject, remember that books that were mentioned above have really been enjoyed by the average public.  Often times when someone watches the movie, they then decide they want to read the book.  That is a positive influence.

Those of us who have read the books take our personally created image of the authors writing and want to transfer it to the screen.  Most times, I find some areas of a book that I preferred to the movie.  But recently, I watched the movie "Wild," by Cheryl Strayed.  I found that the movie actually improved the story.  It wasn't that I enjoyed the scenery, I did, but it was that the movie creators cut out some of the extra verbiage that I got bogged down in. Her story was one of success and victory, but I thought her written work could have been edited down a bit more.  The movie did that.  I enjoyed it.