Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

It's nearly impossible for an entire book to make it to the big screen when making a movie adaption.  More often than not, fans of these books are discouraged or disappointed with the final product after they leave the movie theatre.  Many times saying they cut the "most important part" or the "best scene."  But movies would be entirely too long, up to 6 hours in some cases, if the movie contained everything from the book.  As much as it might kill book lovers everywhere, some things simply must be cut.  The highly anticipated adaption of the popular sci-fi book "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" is no exception.

The star of the movie, Dylan O'Brien, talks about the changes made from book to movie in an exclusive interview with Screen Rant.  O'Brien says that since the telepathy storyline never made it into the first film, the relationship between Thomas (O'Brien) and Theresa (Kaya Scodelario) is a little different than what fans of the book might be expecting.  In the beginning of the book, Thomas doesn't try to call for Theresa telepathically and she doesn't respond to that for the "first time."  Essentially, ignoring each other.  O'Brien says, the same thing is done in the movie,  just without the telepathy aspect.  There is still a "disconnect" between the two characters that will later help them "start to understand one another" later in the story.  That aspect of the book still made it to the film even though the telepathy part didn't.

Giving the new movie fans and long-time book fans nearly a full year to anticipate the second installment of the series after the first movie came out September 19th of last year, The Scorch Trials will be in theaters this Friday, September 18th.  After the movie comes out and reviews begin to flood the internet, we'll take a look at the differences that fans found most important and whether or not the movie held true to the book despite those differences.

 

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First Blog Post

     Once upon a time there was no paper, no quills, no pens, no printers—no books.  No video cameras, no film, no televisions, no theaters—no movies.  There was only people.  People with imaginations that ran so wild that stories ran right out of their mouths.  And people listened.  Then those people told other people, and so on and so forth.  Eventually those stories were written down so that more people could hear them.  And now—read them.  Now, many of them have found their way to the big screen.  But have they lost something along the way? This is one of the many questions I intend to explore in this blog.
     I chose stories as the topic for my blog because I love reading, as well as learning about what makes a good story, well, a good story.  Also, when a movie based on a book comes out, I find it really interesting to compare them.  For example, why they took out certain scenes and thought they weren't as important as ones they used in the movie or who they chose to cast as a certain character and why?
     We all live in the commercialized, body-centric world of the entertainment industry.  Movies are all around us.  Movie theaters are everywhere.  And even when all else fails we will always have the internet keeping the movie world alive and well.  That's why people should care about stories, because even though they aren't told the same way as all those years ago, books are still stories.  Movies are still stories.  Our world is still centered around stories to distract us from reality for a little while just as much as they were then.  The only difference being the way they are "told."