Post by metarie on Jan 29, 2010 13:25:34 GMT
Being a passionate reader and a film student (well, now graduate), I have always been interested in the relationship between books and movies.
I mean, how do you like movies taken from books?
Is that always true that the book is better?
I think the book is better because you have the freedom of imagining the scene whilst reading - I do that atleast - and making your own movie in your mind. Then a movie has to respect timing, so in most of the cases has to cut parts and such.
But this does not mean it cannot be as good as the book: they are just different types of art.
Movies I liked as much as the book: The Lord of the Rings, Atonement, Trainspotting, High Fidelity, Angela's Ashes. And The Night of the Hunter, of course, maybe even better than the book as Robert Mitchum is such a master.
I mean, how do you like movies taken from books?
Is that always true that the book is better?
I think the book is better because you have the freedom of imagining the scene whilst reading - I do that atleast - and making your own movie in your mind. Then a movie has to respect timing, so in most of the cases has to cut parts and such.
But this does not mean it cannot be as good as the book: they are just different types of art.
Movies I liked as much as the book: The Lord of the Rings, Atonement, Trainspotting, High Fidelity, Angela's Ashes. And The Night of the Hunter, of course, maybe even better than the book as Robert Mitchum is such a master.
