novel adaptation

hai. salam satu malaysia. wah gitu. dah macam baca berita tv1 dah ni. hehe. anyway, semalam kan semasa bertwitter saya ada terbaca status twitter cik lisa surihani yang kecil molek tu. dia kata nak start shooting filem Ombak Rindu. and i was like....WHAT????!!!! OMBAK RINDU novel yang saya baca zaman sekolah menengah dulu tu???? penulis dia Fauziah Ashari tu???? yang Izzah dengan Hariz tu???? *jaw dropped*

haihhh. honestly, saya tak berapa berkenan sangat bila buat filem adaptasi daripada novel ni. sebab selalu end product dia tak sehebat novel tersebut. well except for Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter lah kan. both are very good franchise as well as good storyline walaupun ada flaws here and there. bukanlah saya bias merendahkan produk seni malaysia ni sebab kalau nak ikutkan Hollywood pun ada adaptasi dari novel dan jadi tak best juga tapi memang romance novel ni bila diadaptasikan ke filem susah untuk peminat novel itu untuk menerima karya tersebut.

contoh baru-baru ni saya tengok kat Hallmark diorang buat short film from Nora Robert's Romance Collection. i read one of her books called Carolina Moon. among my favourite i should say but bila diorang jadikan itu sebagai drama, saya emo. sebab tak ikut buku. spoiled kan the emotions yang beautifully potrayed in the novel. it didn't do justice to the book.

Ombak Rindu tu saya khatam beribu riban kali dah. setiap kali baca saya masih lagi boleh dapat rasa perasaan semua karakter dalam novel tu. siap dah bayangkan dah hariz and izzah tu macam mana. nama pun novel cinta kan jadi suka hati lah kita nak bayangkan macam mana and bayangan tu pun hanya kita je yang nampak. tak perlu terangkan and beritahu orang lain. dalam erti kata lain, berangan. tapi bila novel yang kita suka tu dijadikan drama atau filem, pemilihan pelakon tu selalu tidak menepati kriteria yang sudah kita bayangkan tu tadi. dan skrip dia sungguhlah tak mengikut cerita novel tersebut. selalunya macam ni lah.

fyi, saya tidak menonton pun cerita Lagenda Budak Setan. sebab apa? sebab saya tak baca novel tu. so i won't go and see the movie. sebab saya rasa in order for me to understand the story i need to read the book first. then only, i'm able to say this is a good adaptation or not. macam masa saya tengok cerita Harry Potter tu dulu. the first movie tu bila habis je saya tengok saya macam hmm is that it. so saya pun cari inisiatif nak cari buku dia. and i read all of the seven books. you can see the bigger picture when you read the book first. itu pada pandangan saya lah.

hmm...sometimes, some things are better left untouch. macam prinsip Jay-Z mengenai the remake of Michael Jackson's We Are The World. wah tetiba je tau masuk pasal rapper ni. when asked what does he thinks of the remake of the song, he said some classic should remain a classic. seeeee seeee what i mean. even Jay-Z agrees with me. cewah guna nama Jay-Z plak.