Writers meet “between thrillers and films”

Heather Graham Bozesiri, Abdelwahab Al-Rifai and Greg Andrew Horowitz.

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“Between Interesting Novels and Films” is the title of the dialogue session that brought together four of the most prominent writers and authors whose literary works were turned into television and cinematic works, from the United States of America and Kuwait, which was moderated by the Emirati poet Sheikha Al-Mutairi, to introduce the audience to the most important techniques and methods that make a published novel It turns into a successful thriller movie.

The session brought together the American novelist, screenwriter and graphic story writer Greg Andrew Horowitz, who wrote for the cinema the films “Henry’s Book” starring Naomi Watts and “Sweet Girl” as well as the number one writer on the New York Times bestseller list Lisa Garender. And writer Heather Graham Bossiri, who has written more than 150 romantic novels, in addition to Kuwaiti writer and publisher Abdulwahab Al-Rifai, who is considered one of the first Kuwaiti writers to write in the world of metaphysics, science fiction, horror and police literature, and two of his novels were turned into cinematic works. .

In defining the reason that prompts producers to turn interesting novels into films, Greg Horowitz said: “Suspense is one of the important elements in which we always try to follow a principle that makes the story begin in the middle of an already revolving scene, from which we move later to tell the rest of the story and how it began in Its events, and how it will continue, whether in comics or films.”

"I think the suspense comes from the tension experienced by the characters of the story, whether in the novel or the movie, and all of these characters have different goals and motives, which make conflict between them inevitable," said Lisa Garender.

The writer Abdel Wahab Al-Rifai said: "The work must be written in such a way that the crises are appropriate for the character of the hero, so that the story becomes about how the hero deals with the crisis."

For her part, writer Heather Graham said: "The character must be taken care of in order to touch the feelings of the reader. People deal with tragic events differently. The degree to which we are affected by an earthquake in Japan would not be the same as the shock that we would live if we knew that a murder occurred in a house next door to us."

The four writers agreed on the possibility of converting any story into any art form, because artworks are based on teamwork in which the creations of an integrated team of artists are mixed, unlike literature, stressing that many of the films that were converted were not up to the level of quality in which their novels were written. original.

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