Quoted films usually come from literary works of lesser quality than the original source, which the writers feel a lot of disappointment, but that does not deny the existence of exceptions to films whose makers succeeded in converting words into vivid pictures that exceeded the source, and the following artworks are a good example of this. :
More horror
The thriller "Jaws" was released in 1975, which was directed by Stephen Spielberg to become one of the icons of timeless horror films, despite the passing of decades after him and the emergence of many modern technologies that served these types of films. At the time, the business generated revenues exceeding $ 470 million, along with winning the British Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA, as chosen by the Library of Congress to preserve the US National Archives as a cultural heritage.
The events revolve around the attempts of a police chief, marine scientist, and fisherman to tackle a deadly white shark, almost deadly on a small island. Although he quoted from an important novel, he surpassed it to choose the director as a tactic that relied on showing little without wasting time on details mentioned in the novel concerning the personal relationships of the heroes, where he preferred instead that the heroes spend all the time at sea, which intensified the excitement And horror.
The book is fine, but the film is exceptional
"The Godfather" is an exceptionally well-known artwork, ranked second on the list of the top 250 films in the history of cinema, according to the IMDB artistic website, which explains why it won Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA, and awarded it Rating of 9.2, according to the audience's evaluation of the site itself.
The film was released in 1972 and ran throughout three parts, introducing an unconventional saga, during which director Francis Ford Coppola reviewed the history of one of the strongest crime families and mafia bosses. Although the novel written by Mario Pozzo and published in 1969 topped the list of bestsellers on the New York Times list, the film is seen as the greatest achievement in cinematic history, especially with the legendary performance presented by the star Marlon Brando, and Coppola's dispensation with impractical sub-plots That came in the book, and if he came back to present some of them in the second part.
Revenue is not everything
Writer Stephen King is one of the professors of horror, and if his unearthly novels are often forgotten, perhaps this is why many people did not hear about his short story that was released in 1982 only after converting to a movie entitled "The Shawshank Redemption" produced in 1994 and what It still ranks first in the list of the best 250 films on the site "IMDb" (IMDb).
Director Frank Darabont doubles the dose of the drama in the story inside the prison, as well as adding several human and rich leads to the main plot. The strange thing was that the movie at the time did not achieve a great commercial success, but that did not prevent it from being artistically successful and to run for the Oscars and Golden Globe, before making its way to the top of the movie listings.
The devil we loved
"The Devil Wears Prada" is a comedy drama starring Merrill Strip and Ann Hathaway, and despite his light comedic character, he succeeded in running for the Oscars, while his revenues amounted to $ 327.9 million from a total budget that did not exceed 35 million, which is the success that Contributed to the increase in the popularity of the novel from which he was quoted to become the best-selling book, even though the film surpassed it by a distance that is not easy.
The credit for the film’s success is due to the efforts made by director David Frankel and screenwriter Allen Broch McKenna, who collaborated together to simplify the plot around which the story revolted on the one hand, and to highlight the secondary characters besides enriching the character presented by Meryl Streep and giving her a human side that appeared from time to time on the other hand Unlike the novel, whose characters are boring and unlikely, and focus more on the history and description of the world of fashion and fashion.
note book
The author Nicholas Sparks is known for his inclination to write love stories that combine drama and tragic, and which usually yields massive sales of millions of copies due to the existence of a huge market for melodrama fans. However, director Nick Cassavitz, when he decided to quote his novel "The Notebook" and presented a film with the same name in 2004, decided to do so with freshness.
And that freshness emerged through the exceptional charisma that appeared between the two champions Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams on the screen, despite her absence on the ground, which gave the story all its drama a lot of romance, which doubled the audience of the work, as it brought together fans of melodramatic writings And lovers of authentic romance.