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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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Matt@HeroicImaginationProject's avatar

Absolutely agree with all of that.

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💎 Jaime Buckley's avatar

Matt... wow. I mean... wow.

Your responses are just—so long, so intricate, so overwhelmingly layered with nuance that I had to sit down, hydrate, and stare into the middle distance for a while.

“Absolutely agree with all of that.”

The brevity. The precision.

The sheer cognitive acrobatics of that sentence.

I mean, how do you DO it??

Teach me your minimalist magic, o sage of subtlety. 😄

Appreciate you, as always.

Your timing, wit, and dry delivery never fail to make me smile.

[grin]

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Matt@HeroicImaginationProject's avatar

I’m left winded from writing every week! Takes me a few days to be able to type again. I haven’t been writing every day for 21 years like some people :)

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💎 Jaime Buckley's avatar

Let me correct you right there, Matt.

Writing....since 1986.

21 years ONLINE.

Come on buddy, I SO believe in you...FLEX THOSE FINGERS!!

[laughing hard]

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💎 Jaime Buckley's avatar

It just took me longer than most to learn how to NOT completely suck at writing....

BwahAHAHAHA!

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Matt@HeroicImaginationProject's avatar

How about this. For empathy building, I think the book is always going to beat the adapted film or TV series. There are some films that didn't come from a book though. And some of them, a very small number, can change people, I think. So, while I enjoyed the LOTR and Dune films, they're great, but not good enough to trump the books. In this regard - the empathy building part.

And 21 years single focused, maybe?

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Andrea Grey's avatar

I have aphantasia meaning I don’t see mental or minds eye imagery. I don’t read fiction for this reason. So where to get empathy may also depend on the individuals way of processing information. 😃

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Matt@HeroicImaginationProject's avatar

Great point!

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