World Literature 500

Created November 2009

“Film Adaptation”

Books can lead to films or vice versa… Spark Notes: Literature

Sometimes a film combines two books such as in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass or reinterpret a work completely as in Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood based on MacBeth (which is a script and to be adapted freely to the theater to begin with), which makes the comparison between a book and a film more involved than it seems initially. And Harry Potter fans might complain about...