You'll get a crib notes version that highlights all the "important" events but ignores much of the internalized conflict. The elements that make Catcher in the Rye appealing will be mostly lost in translation, as only so much narration is possible. The problem with making them into films is that they are highly introspective and lack enough action or dramatic arcs to sustain the viewer's interest. My examples are very easy to digest story-wise. TL DR stories and narratives are two different things, and while any story can indeed be filmed, it won't capture the same experience.ĮDIT: As a couple people pointed out, The Hunger Games was written in the first-person my bad. Put another way: Would you bother reading a novelization of Inception or The Matrix? It could describe all the same events-but without the cinematic experience, would it be worth it? The Catcher in the Rye is primarily about the narration of Holden Caufield sure, a movie can visualize the things that happen to him-and perhaps create a different experience out of that-but if you're going to lose the central purpose of the novel anyway, why not just make a film that was designed to be a film in the first place?
But modernist novels that are just as much about the telling as they are about the story are not going to translate as easily, as the telling inherently changes. In that case, you're still keeping the central purpose of the book.
Certainly, novels like the Harry Potter or Hunger Games books are written in an objective third-person that easily translates to the screen they're plot-oriented and designed so that you simply picture the action, and any filmmaker can go ahead and literalize that. Kubrick and Hitchcock both adapted a great many novels with excellent results during their careers, but none of them could be described as a strict translation of the original - they took the core of a story, threw away the original, and made their own narrative from it.
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Sure, any story can be made into a movie, but novels and movies are more than just a series of events.
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