"Looking back, there were a slew of page-to-screen projects, but which were the cream of the crop? Here’s a definitive ranking of the films that stayed true to their inspiration (and a few that didn’t)."
2014 was filled with many book to film adaptations. Some were an extreme success, however, others were almost a total flop, causing disappointment in anticipating fan bases. Book-based movies such as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The Giver, and This is Where I Leave You failed to do justice by the novels. The movies, while being filled with excellent casts, did not successfully create visuals for the text. However, movies such as American Sniper, The Imitation Game, Divergent, and Unbroken caused an uproar of popularity throughout the media world. Many were up for multiple awards due to their excellence.
"Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper worked with Chris Kyle’s widow to make sure the adaptation of his autobiography of the same name for as accurate as possible. The result was a Best Picture-nominated film about the most lethal sniper in U.S. history."
Whereas I agree with a few of the comments on these films from this article, I also disagree with many. This article criticizes a few of the direction of the films because they differ from the novels that they are derived from. I feel that in some scenarios, that is necessary. If Hollywood was to film a movie word for word, scene by scene from a novel, audiences would be sitting in a theater for hours on end. It is Hollywood's creativity and direction to artistically choose which scenes are necessary to get their vision expressed.
Armstrong, O. (n.d.). A Complete Ranking Of 2014's Book-To-Movie Adapations. Retrieved January 16, 2015, from http://decider.com/2015/01/16/2014-book-to-movie-adapations/
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