The Motives Behind The Adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ The Best of Me Novel into A Film by Michael Hoffman

Abstract

This research analyze the adaptation from intrinsic events of The Best of Me novel and film. The transformation between the novel and film bring up the different ideology, because novel and film are different media. The ideology will be found by using mythology by Roland Barthes thus will we know the motives that are shown in Linda Hutcheon's Theory of Adaptation. There are two goals of this research. The first question is the transformation changes of The Best of Me adaptation (from novel into film). The second question is the motives behind the adaptation of The Best of Me novel into film. In answer to the research question, the first step is to compare the collected data, then the differences found from the transformation from the novel into the film are analyzed by Barthes’ Semiotic method to find out the ideology behind the adaptation. The ideologies then lead the research to find the motive of adaptation work.