Converting a novel to a movie

The director faces hard obstacles in doing his job which is to do a successful movie. And one of the hardest things to do is to convert a novel to a movie. While converting a novel to a movie the director must take in mind that the movie must have a close picture to the novel which means it must have the same atmosphere as the novel. The movie must have the same setting, characters, and dialogues of the novel it self.

A lot of good movies come from successful novels. For example : "Wuthering Heights" , "Harry Potter" , "The Lord Of The Ring" , "The Green Mile", "Cider House Rules", "The French Connection" and many other novels. They all are the world top books which contain interesting stories and that are written by the best writers in the world like Charles Dickens, Robin Moore, Stephen King, Emily Rose, Jane Austen, and many other famous writers.

These novels come into two categories fiction and non fiction. Fiction needs more effort by the director than the non fiction because the setting in the fiction novels is imaginary and has many unfound items. The setting might almost impossible to do in a movie without the help of a computer or special effects. Special effects play a big role into giving the people a better opportunity and a clear image of what happening in the story. Special effects help making the atmosphere easier by adding sounds, graphics, and many other special features. It can also show the magical parts in some novels which we can't do in real life.

Choosing the right character is hard on the director. He or she must search for the people that fit the look and the shape of the character in the novel and he must be so accurate. The character must be able to replace the one in the novel by being able to express the feelings of him or her trying to show the audience that there is nothing different between him or her and the one in the story.

The movie minimizes the pages that might take you two weeks to read to two hours to watch. But the novel has more scenes than the movie because most directors delete unneeded scenes, and put only the most important ones, so that it won't be short or long. But it doesn't satisfy people who read the novel and gives them a big question marks on their head thinking of how the scene might look like. It's irritating to some people also to not see a scene that they liked in a novel.

In conclution, the director has a hard job to do. It's not easy to convert a novel to a movie. The director needs to be accurate while choosing and making every step in this process. And not forgetting the audience he must make them satisfied by making the movie exciting. So that it will attract more people and lead him to win lots of awards.