Film adaptations

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/lrk-hand-maze.html

Dear Charlie, I wanted to share something with you.

Some books are adapted in films, you know that right ? Well, recently, I saw the film of the first book of the Maze Runner series, and after watching it, I remembered that a friend of mine, Sarah, talked to me about the books at the beginning of the Seconde. I then asked her to lend me the books, which she sweetly did. 

And, you know, even if I already knew the ending of the story of that first part, I was so thrilled while reading it and I finished it in less than 2 days. Actually, I was that thrilled because lots of things that happened in the book were not in the movie, or events were not the same; and it changed the plot completely! 

For example, I don’t know if you saw the film (Le Labyrinthe in french), but in the movie, people get attacked by what they call “Grievers” in one night and a lot of people get killed, whereas in the book, the Grievers only kill one person by night in the book (sorry for spoiling). That’s just a small detail but it is something really important for the rest of the story, which was different in the film.

So, basically what I want to say is, that I think it’s a shame books get adapted in films when they’re not really “adapted”, they are kind of remade! I understand that it would be too long to put every detail in the film but I mean at least the director should try to follow the story. I’m not trying to criticize the film, because I saw it and it was great but the book was AWESOME.

Anyways, have a nice weekend Charlie.

Bye, Alicia x