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Nikunj Panchal  lists down 7 impactful books that should be adapted into movies

It has been for years that literary and arts have had a good time hand in hand, though there are hardly any films which have been adopted into books, there are thousands of literary texts adapted to the screen. While these were being adapted for viewers, many projects were left incomplete or were not even startled due to a multiple reasons. Taking a look at those pages which never took on to reels; let’s hope a day when we get to view these supplemental to our reading experience.

Wrinkled with passing time?

An award winning novel, but is still on paper since 1962; A Wrinkle In Time (Madeleine L’Engle). In an attempt to transcript this brilliant story into a children’s TV film, Disney Motion pictures left out a lot of adult themes, for which the novel’s fan-following left no page unturned to criticize this attempt. There wouldn’t be a blunder, if in future the book is adapted aptly.

Magical Realism

The novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) has a unique plot, which covers familiar as well as societal creation and eventual death of the city of Macondo. Adaptation into a film would be a tough deal to crack, for its fantastic writing makes you believe in pragmatically impossible supernatural and magical things which are yet not proven to being existing. There might be an attempt, once the author gives a go to the production houses.

Can’t Cast Blood On Screen

If it wouldn’t have been violent and extremely racist, Blood Meridian (Cormack McCarthy) would make a successful run through on screen. The brilliant use of dense and difficult language makes the readers wander of them own being literate. A movie based on this could hence compliment to their understanding. It covers a historic event that witnessed a mass massacre of the Native Americans along the US-Mexico borders by a gang of teenager kids.

Screening Some Comedy

Published in the year 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is John Kennedy Toole’s funniest novel, describing a larger-than-life idiot savant, having everything running out of time for him and tripping for multiple misadventures. Motioning such a text became difficult for directors Harold Ramis, John Waters, Stephen Fry and Steven Soderbergh, as creating comedy is way a tougher job.

Hey! Bollywood, Let’s Adapt Mythology

The planet might be known as a globe, but is a place of divided land, divided waters and divided people. In such a war torn world, Panchaali; wife to the Pandavas brothers narrates The Palace of Illusions in words Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The basic message being, the unsolicited war fought in the name of the women, without any actual regards to her feelings and emotions. The portrayal of a strong voice in whose name the war is fought, would raise pertinent questions on screen.

Invisible Blacks Was A Visible Issue

After its launch in the year 1952, the very next year the honored U. S. National Award for Fiction was awarded to Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. The narration of a black man referring ones own self as an ‘Invisible man’ is because the world doesn’t want to see his color. For its intellectual work, director Spike Lee had been purportedly working on this project for years now. The usual case prevails here; the fans find the book too superior in content to be filmed in couple of hours. The former president being a black, others find it an outdated theme in America

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

The storyline is based in Burma, while the 1885 invasion brought chaos and tides of instability. A Child, who grows up in such an ambiance and hence gains power to create an empire, befriends Dolly in the court of the Burmese empire and her love slowly and steadily shapes his life. He finding himself unable to forget her, and years later, going in search of her would get Bollywood some new spice on screens.