The thing which struck me about The Martian was that the film is an extremely faithful adaptation of the book. As were The Hunger Games and The Social Network
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I think book authors generally like it if people who watch the film first, when they read the book, don't react with "What the heck, this is completely alien to me" and stop reading
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Also, as a writer, there's nothing I love more than someone fundamentally GETTING what I was going for. A faithful film adaptation is high praise
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There can be different dimensions of faithfulness, too. The degree of literalness of the adaptation doesn't necessarily speak for or against the adapters GETTING what mattered about the book.
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