Surrogates: The Novel to Film Adaptation

I've always been an avid reader. I can usually finish a pretty big book in about 2 days. Nerdy huh?! I've also always found that 10/10 times I enjoy the novel better then the movie. Sometimes, if I enjoy a book a lot, I won't see the movie because I liked the book so much and I don't want to ruin what I think happened by watching the movie. I know.. even nerdier! As for the Surrogates, the movie let my expectations down. A book like the Surrogates is different from what I usually read. I like to read biographies and fiction but I never read comic books. Although I was a little hesitant at first to read it, it exceeded my expectations. Because I usually don't read books in comic form, it was a little hard for me to follow at times, but in the end I really enjoyed it.

As for the movie, I was a little disappointed. I always like books better so I knew I would be a little disappointed when I watched the movie. In my opinion, books are always better then the movie and I felt like the novel portrayed the story-line better then the movie did. Although the visuals throughout the movie definitely helped me to picture what the surrogates and the people would actually looked like, I like to use my imagination. Because this story-line deals with technology so much, I was actually looking forward to seeing the movie because I did want to see what these surrogates would look like and how they would act and move. Overall though, I did like the novel better.

For the Surrogates, the novel to film adaption was interesting. There were both many similarities as well as many differences. The biggest difference between the two was that in the movie, the wife does not kill herself. Also, the book left out a major part; in the movie, the reason that the couple is obsessed with their surrogates is because they had lost a child. This was not mentioned in the book and I was very surprised because this was such a big part of the story-line.. or so I thought! Another difference between the novel and the movie was that in the novel, it seemed as though all the characters were fat and ugly. I don't know if it was just my imagination of if this was really how the characters were supposed to be portrayed but I felt like they were a lot better looking in the movie then I imagined them to be. Another difference between the book and the movie was that the movie did a better job of showing how the people with the surrogates actually became their surrogates. An example of this would be the people putting on those "goggles" when they were taking the part of their surrogates. This was something that I did look forward to seeing on film because I wasn't sure about how it was supposed to be portrayed in the novel. A novel to film adaptation is good for a novel such as this because it is so good to visualize it.

Another difference between the novel and the film was that there were a lot more aestics in the movie. Again, it is a lot harder for a book such as this to portray exactly what the people and surrogates are supposed to look like and how they are supposed to act. Overall, I felt like although I always do enjoy the novels more, due to the fact that this particular movie had a lot or technological characters, it helped to visualize things by seeing the movie. I did enjoy the novel better but it helped for me to see the movie. Although the main story-line was mostly similar in both the book and the movie, there were some differences. Overall, although I did thoroughly enjoy the movie, I enjoyed the novel more because I like to use my imagination :)