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Ari Kohen's avatar

“Ari wins!”

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💎 Jaime Buckley's avatar

Welp, I have a solid opinion on this.

...I don't care.

The REASON I don't care, is because it always depends on the story.

On what the creator wants the audience/reader to experience.

I do have a consistent experience that solidifies all this for me, and that is, more times than not, the movie will be worse and/or screw up the story.

The standard reason for this, is screen writers want to win AWARDS, but they can't unless they change (I believe) 20-30% or more of the original story to even qualify. So they start out having to mess things up.

On the other hand, you have people who do such a good job with movies, you don't even care about the books. Things like LOTR, or Harry Potter, or the new DUNE (my favorite example)...and I've read all the books, prefer the books to the movies, but I have family who are HUGE fans and never read the books. Never will, and that's fine.

But here's my final point:

Books allow you to wander, to search, to think, to feel in your own time, without any encroachment.

Movies do not.

They have limited time to influence, and as such, they control the path and direction...every...single...time...

Yeah. Ari wins.

[drop mic]

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