The literacies project

This weekend I went to the movies and I watched Twilight, now I had read the book when it first came out and had been waiting for a movie to be made of it for the past, and I kid you not, the past four years. I was very curious as to how the a movie could be made out of such a detailed book, now the descriptions in the book were very easily applicable to the big screen but there was so much to the story I knew they could keep all of it in a movie script. I thought of the Harry Potter movies, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and even Pride and Prejudice. When ever a story goes from print to script there are bound to be sacrifices made of characters, plot, and other such things. Yet, I still held onto the belief that Twilight would be the exception to the rule. The book was already a movie for one's eyes to read! Therefore, should the movie just follow the book to an almost exact copy? Sometime, earlier this year the author released the pictures of who had been casted to play the roles in the movie. I was astounded. None of the characters looked like I had imagined in the book or even like the images of actors the author herself had chosen to show us on her website of how the characters looked to me. From that moment on I knew the movie was going to prove to be a great disappointment to me. My boyfriend took me to the movie the weekend it came out and the whole time I watched it, I couldn't stop my brain from comparing every aspect of the movie to the book and how greatly it had failed the book in my opinion. I talked to my cousin and she agreed that the movie was not what she expected. She proceeded to tell me that she and her friends had decided that you can't compare the movie to the book. With this new knowledge in hand I went to the see the movie a second time this past weekend. I made sure that while watching the film I didn't in anyway let my mind compare it to the book. I ended up really liking the movie via this method. That's when it occurred to me that the way the movie had been taken from page to script was the same way we had taken our literacy narative from a written essay style to a mutlimedia. The movie was just a visual representation of the book, not truly the book as a movie, just like my literacies movie was a visual representation of my literacies narative. They weren't exact copies of each other, some information had been deleted and other parts added to make my movie the best explanation of my literacies as I found possible.