Fiction and film essay

" A good filmic adaption of a novel is true to the novel's form and content". Critically examine this statement in the light of the filmic adaptions of novels you have read for this course. In this essay I will argue that a good filmic adaption must be true to a novel's form and content. I will use as my argument the novels Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by Choderlos De Laclos; …showed first 75 words of 2170 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2170 total…rration. As any art it should be unique to the writer's and director's imagination, however, to comply with the novel one cannot ignore the value and the important materials and substances which a novel has been acclaimed for. It is then, that the film will produce a piece which will relate to the novel, however it will express the themes in it's unique and ample way, a way in which the cinema offers the makers.