One of the best things, at least in my opinion, is when your story becomes a movie. We're used to novels becoming movies and how they're faithful to the story, but what about story stories and movies? Well, it happens and sometimes the changes are for the better.
For me, one of the better known short stories that keeps on being made into a movie is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving. Now that has been stretched to include characters that weren't in the original story or love interests. This isn't to say that I don't enjoy the adaptations, just showing how much difference there is. Another good one is Minority Report which adds on two acts to the story and changes up the characters completely. John Anderton is a balding out of shape man in the short story and... well, he becomes Tom Cruise action movie hero. Not the short balding guy from Tropic Thunder.
My favorite adaptation though, is "The Sentinel". You're probably going "...what movie is that?". It's 2001: A Space Odyssey that takes all these little things from the short story into the movie and it was the starting point to the novel by the same name. The reason why this is my favorite is that it shows the full potential of the short story. It goes from this little idea into one of the greatest movies of all time and a novel that is amazing.
So, readers, what are some of your favorite short stories into movies? Feel free to leave it in the comments below and, until next time, keep on writing.
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