Introduction UNSATISFACTORY ECRANISATION OF LASSE HALLSTROM’S DEAR Unsatisfactory Ecranisation Of Lasse Hallstrom’s Dear John Novel (2006) A Reader Response Analysis.
2 and then project it to go back in the direction the big screen. The film as a
representation of reality society where, the film is a portrait of the reality of a society in which the film was made and brought back in shaping reality of a
society based on the codes, conventions, and the ideology of culture wide. Irawanto, 1999:14.
Nowadays, there are so many books adapted to movie, but certainly they have changed. The film director intentionally changed the movie because he or she
had different point of view. Watching film can make the viewers easier to understand what the film director is going to convey with no longer thought, while
reading books we should understand whether it use metaphor words or not. The books with metaphor words are more difficult to understand because we have to
know what are the real meaning or the message which want to be extended by the writer. Yet film is also limited: for one thing, there are no time constraints on a
novel, while a film must generally compress events into two hours or so. For another, the meaning of a novel is controlled by only one person the author while
the meaning we get from a film is the result of a collaborative effort by a large number of people. Film also does not allow us the same freedom a novel does to
interact with the plot or character by imagining them in our minds. For some viewers, this is often the most frustrating aspect of turning a novel into a film.
One of those novels adapted to movie is Dear John. It is adapted from Dear John novel written by Nicholas Sparks. Nicholas Charles Sparks born December
31, 1965 is an American writer and novelist. He has published eighteen novels and two non-fiction books. Several of his novels have become international
bestsellers, and ten of his romantic novels have been adapted to film with
multimillion-dollar box office grosses; however, none of the film adaptations have been critically well received.
Three people analyze Dear John movie. Okti Ermawati who comes from Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta in 2013 delivers the first research. She
focuses on John’s big heart that analyzed by psychoanalytic approach. The second research is Rohana who comes from University of Sumatra Utara, 2011. She
focuses on the major character conflicts in Dear John novel. Then, Esa Yolanda
3 who comes from UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta in 2012 writes the third
research. She focuses to analyze the stylistics in Dear John novel. In this paper, I explain this movie by using reader response approach. It
consists of the dominant issues of the movie, such as the acting of player, plot or story, message, theme, and soundtrack of the movie, the background of the readers
and reviewers, includes country and year of response, the gender of the readers and reviewers, and the differentiate between the novel and the movie.