&lt;b&gt;Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down (2005) in the Transition from Book to Movie&lt;/b&gt;

Ömercan Tüm

doi:10.7596/taksad.v4i3.463

Abstract

Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down (2005) in the Transition from Book to movie Abstract Challenging and profound, Nick Hornby’s novel A Long Way Down (2005) is the story of four people failing to commit suicide. The protagonists are caught in an intricate web of relationships, disappointments and missed chances on their one-way journey to understand that “The cure for unhappiness is happiness” (Elizabeth McCracken). This paper aims at demonstrating that 2014 movie version directed by Pascal Chaumeil fails to capture the essence of the book and resorts to a number of radical changes which are only supposed to attract a larger audience, but do not necessarily send the same message as the novel.

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Challenging and profound, Nick Hornby’s novel A Long Way Down (2005) is the story of four people failing to commit suicide
Hornby’s novel A Long Way Down (2005) could be categorized as a dark comedy since it deals with topics such as depression, melancholy, loss of balance, failed relationships, but tackled with in a funny, sometimes satirical manner which his readers have already been accustomed with
Together with his other novels, A Long Way Down reveals the profoundness of contemporary problems without giving any real solution since these solutions would not address the whole society

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Challenging and profound, Nick Hornby’s novel A Long Way Down (2005) is the story of four people failing to commit suicide. The novel starts with Martin - one of the narrators asking a rhetorical question ‘Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower-block?”.

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