I am one that usually likes to read at least most of the books before going to see a book to film adaptation, or a movie based on a book as usually I believe that in almost all cases the books are better than the films. There are some book to film adaptations that in my opinion miss the mark completely, for example the first Twilight film but I thought that they got better as the years went on. Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children was one of those films that missed the mark on a few things, and I would like to start off by saying what I feel like It missed the mark on, and then I will move onto what I feel was great about the adaptation. The first thing that I felt it missed the mark on was the voice, yes I know that the characters were not the ages that they are in the book, but I don’t feel like you can blame anyone because actors auditioned, and they had to go with the people that came in for the roles. I don’t feel like the film fully mastered the voice that Ransom Riggs has in the writing of the story, and the voice that he gives the characters in the film. It would be tough to transfer on screen, and I think that Ransom Riggs’s style still came out in the film, but it was missing the uniqueness and what makes the books endearing for the reader. The second thing is the character of Miss Avocet in the film, she was in the film for about a sixty seconds and the film didn’t get into her character, and her relationship with Miss Peregrine I felt like she should have had more screen time like she was more featured in the book. The last thing that I feel didn’t hit the mark was the fact that they in a way added a half hour to the film, the whole scene with the amusement park loop I was very confused by, as I didn’t remember that from my first read of the book.
I would like to start off this section by saying that I have read the book, I read it for a book club in about two and a half weeks, and I am currently doing a reread of the book because I want to read the whole series now. The great things about the movie I felt were the characters, these characters to me were just as fleshed out as they were in the novel, and I feel that in some films the characters can be not as developed as they were in the novels where they come from. I think that these are very unique not everyday characters, and the uniqueness was translated very well on screen I as the viewer was taken into the world of these characters fully. A second thing that I really liked about the film was the overall aesthetic of the film, I thought that it beautifully captured the aesthetic that the novel draws out for you as well as adding their own twist of what they saw the aesthetic was. Going hand in hand with both of these things I felt like the storytelling of the film mostly captured what is in the novel, the original voice might not have fully been there, but the general storytelling and the general story lines were all captured beautifully on film.
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