Classic Novels

The movie industry is impacting the American youth by taking books and creating movies. To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet, nearly every classic novel teenagers are assigned to read have been translated on screen into a movie. The enjoyment people once received from reading Shakespeare is gone and movies are now becoming more popular. For example the first Romeo and Juliet movie to come about at least stuck true to how Shakespeare wrote the script. Then as time progressed teenagers began to associate Shakespeare with Leonardo DiCaprio’s version of Romeo and Juliet which is has a modern twist. Take a look at the picture below of the modern version, since when are there guns during Shakespeare's era. It seems that filmmakers are running out of ideas for movies and attempt to translate timeless books into movies with little success.

These movies lower the incentive to read the book. Teenagers are already looking for any excuse not to read the book by using sources such as sparknotes and cliffnotes and now movies can be added to this cheat sheet. Why read when you can watch it with the click of a button? Reading is becoming a forgotten pastime, as the movie industry grows.