Do movies make certain books more popular than they should be?
By Dawnwriter
@Dawwriter (246)
Pakistan
April 6, 2016 4:01am CST
When I read Hunger Games, I thought they were average books but the movies based on the books and some big names like Jennifer Lawrence, Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore, Seymour Hoffman etc made them very famous.
I felt the same for Twilight Saga. I could not even read the books completely but again the movies were widely anticipated.
I recently read Anthony Horowitz Power of Five series for young adult and thought they were great but no one sees to knwo about them . I guess this is because they have not been adapted for movies.
I guess movies do make certain books more popular than they should be.
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@teamfreak16 (43655)
• Denver, Colorado
7 Apr 16
Believe it or not, I've never read the Hunger Games books or seen the movies. Same with Twilight.
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@tomford (135)
• Richmond, Virginia
6 Apr 16
usually Hollywood gets the rights for a movie because a book is popular but nowadays since the success of harry potter Hollywood started looking for the next books for movies and they went to twilight next. then divergent and hunger games and maze runner, young kid lit is big business.
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@Ruby3881 (1963)
• Canada
7 Apr 16
I'd say that it's a matter of taste. I thought The Hunger Games was really quite outstanding. And I believe it won a number of awards for YA fiction. I haven't read Horowitz, though I did note that Power of Five is a sort of continuation of an earlier series he never completed. Then I realized that he publishes a lot of books, sometimes three of more in the same year. That sort of assembly-line, formulaic writing is less likely to gain critical acclaim or end up being adapted for the screen.
Twilight and The Hunger Games were both best selling books well before their film adaptations (as was the Harry Potter series before that.) The literary merits of the various series may not all be the same, but I'd hesitate to say that the movies are what made the books successful.
