story. The advantage here is the author can create depth with their characters and you can get inside the heads of the characters. The reader can experience the thoughts of the character. The author does use a lot of description though when writing their stories, which is much like a screenplay. On the other hand, dialog would not be set off like it is and the scenes would not always be so evident as a screenplay makes it. Basically the major difference between a story made for a movie and a story made for a book is the structure.King is quite possibly the best known author in the movie business. Right now more than thirty Stephen King books or stories have appeared as major motion pictures or television miniseries. (Wukovits 63) This itself is a very amazing feat on King’s part since whatever he writes seems to beat out thousands of screenplays. For a screenplay to actually make it all the way into a motion picture is very tough. Someone said, that a person has a better chance rewriting a screenplay 19 times than they do writing 19 separate screenplays hoping one will be successful. (Bergmooser 34) Why then are King’s stories so appealing to directors? For one his stories are very entertaining, especially his horror stories. A successful screenplay must usually follow a mainstream criterion in order to do well. For instance the three major successful themes in movies are action/adventure, horror, and comedy. Screenplays that are decent and fit into any one of these categories will most likely have a good chance at becoming a motion picture. Stand by Me was a story that was very thought provoking. At this time in America, audiences were looking for movies that were less commercial and less obvious, so that is the reason King’s non-horror story became a movie. (Field 12)Second, his writing style is similar to a screenwriter’s style, which in turn can help the director can a better image. Also, whe...
