Evaluative Criteria

when translating a novel to a book you have to pay close attention to ever detail and description in the book. If i was a screen writer and had to make a criteria of how to make a film as true to the novel as possible i would use three main concepts. Keeping to the main message in the novel, keeping the main relationships between characters the same and keeping the same mood of the novel. It is important that a screenwriter sticks to the main message of the novel because that is truly what makes a person like a novel or not. Keeping the relationships between characters is important because an author develops certain characters to help make the story work and if they are not in the movie it changes the novel all together. finally it is important to visually make the movie appealing to viewers when a person goes to see a novel that they read they except to see something similar to what they imagine when reading the novel. All these concepts i feel are the main ideas that should be looked at when criticizing a film that is based on a novel