Writing #2
So I have recently been working on my general introduction and researching some different adaptations of The Bell Jar. One thing that I found while researching is that there was a movie made after the book. I was immediately intrigued because I love a good book to movie adaptation but I thought it was a little weird that I couldn’t find the movie anywhere. It was not on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, or Xfinity which is unusual. I did some more looking and noticed that it had terrible reviews. People were complaining that the movie was nothing like the book and went against all the themes in the book. I went onto youtube and found the trailer for the movie and let me just say, they were right. Based on the trailer alone the movie is just using the books title to get people to watch it. After watching that I read some comments on the video and it turns out that there is a remake set out for this year. People were expressing how excited they were that the book would finally get the movie that it deserved. So naturally I had to look it up and see if it was true. Turn out, the people were right but there is something interesting about the movies listed genre.
It’s listed as a comedy.
This book is far from being a comedy, it’s practically the opposite. I don’t understand how that is what it is being advertised as. The movie hasn’t had an official release or trailer so I’m hoping that what it is listed as currently will change. It just got me thinking about how readers see things in different ways. Some people might think something is more funny while others might find it sad and haunting. It’s actually crazy how everyone thinks so different but we can, for the most part, live peacefully.













