Exploring Books Adapted Into Movies

 If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

~ William Arthur Ward

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

~ Stanley Kubrick.

Was fortunate to attend yet another amazing Meet-up #89, by Cochin Book Club, *Exploring Books Adapted Into Movies* ,  today the 26th October 2025, from 11 am to 1 pm, at *Koffee Junction- Renai* in Palarivattam. Venue was awesome. We had a closed room, which had more privacy and ample space for discussion and then lovely outdoors for our photoshoot. 

Both are different craft. Infact not just two, the various medium.  TV writing is about habit, web writing about hook and  film writing about heart. Though story,  character and emotion are the key, the making would differ based on it being for big screen, OTT or TV. Movie make you feel, books make you think. Movie depicts external turmoil better, while book can convey the internal.

The discussion ranged on wide variety of subjects. 

• Movies that enhanced the books
• Movies that diminished the books
• Books that cannot be adopted into movies 
• Books and movies that are equally bad
• Movies and book that are equally great yet different. 
• Movies and book that are equally great and same.
• Books and movies that were released almost at the same time - Space Oddessy 
• Beautiful movie made into a book - Once upon a time in America 
• Parallel books written in 1860, made into movie in 1994 - Brave Hearts

We covered  variety moves/books like The Godfather,  Gone With The Wind, The Sound of Music, Jungle book, The Count of Monte Christo,  Tale of Two cities, Little Women, Cinderella; authors like Stephen King, Shakespeare,  R.K.Narayan;  Non fiction like The Big Short, comics by Hell Boy, Malayalam books like Udakappola, The Goatlife and others, Bengali books by Satyajit Ray, Hindi with Guide, 3 Idiots and few others and Marathi by Chava. 

Thank you all for yet another timely, enriching  meetup.