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Question: Why choose the book above movie!?
why do many people insist reading a book is better than watching a movie when both entertains and educates you as well!? is there any hidden reason or anything!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Both are modes for storytelling and both can tell fascinating, enriching and life-changing stories, but you should always opt to read a book!. Why!?

1!. The movie highlights what the director wants you to know!. The director is the author of the movie, not the story!. Books are the direct connection to the author!. You read the story as he/she wrote it!. No interference, no MPAA rating systems, no product placements or advertisements!. You complete the story as you read it!.

2!. Reading a book encourages you to develop patience, foresight and a good memory!. Reading helps us develop a reflective insight regarding our own reactions to events in the story!. Movies are often packed with scores and cinematography intended to manipulate the audience!. Books do this too, but it is at the insistence of the author, not the director who is modifying a screenwriter's version of a novel!.

3!. Reading develops your vocabulary!.

4!. Movies are generally created to make money!. Books are created because the author is compelled to write!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

While not everyone knows the ins and outs of the biz quite this well, they probably sense it intuitively from having read both a book and seen the movie for it, the reason is that the book represents the original ideas of the author with all it's detail, message and objectives!. When a writer is published, often their contract with the publisher, or if not, their contract with whomever approaches them about making their book into a movie, forces them to relinquish the rights to control!. The screenwriters make the book into a screenplay, then THEY have THEIR work mangled by the director, who makes decisions for the sake of what will sell (they think and hope), for length, for continuity, etc!. Often, when something hits the screen, the essence of the book is entirely lost, and you get a cheap shell of a story in it's place!. Then, the director and editor together further affect the product when the edit the movie!. If you're very, very lucky, everyone whose hands were on it were very talented and tasteful in the work they do!. If not, you have a piece of garbage!. Often the reality is somewhere in the middle!.

Smart writers, like Stephen King, for example, learn along the way to retain control of their product and to have their contracts written as such!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Books as a general rule are more detailed but the main difference is that when the book is adapted into a movie it loses the internal dialogue of the narrator and usually that means the movie is far different from the book!.

A classic example is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest both are great stories but the movie is McMurphys story while the book is Chief's!. It is being inside Chief's mind that makes the book much more nuanced and intriguing because you see the change happen in Chief you understand him more than the film version which is a surface story of McMurphy's effect on all the hospital patients and staff!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well the best way I can answer this is when I watch a movie everything is set in stone right before you in many ways it is similar to books but the characters faces are set and scenery, and action, These are not bad things but compared to when I read a book it is so much more of a personal movie in my head!. When I read the movie in my head movies at my speed!. All the characters look as I myself have imagined them based on the books description!. Everything in the book is transferred into my head sort of like a painting and I turn it into a movie!. You feel closer to the characters like you are a part of them!. So I would love to read a great book over watching a movie but I do enjoy movies as well!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

A movie shows you a scene, and can give you great detail in the visual and audible modes, but it is left to the actors to portray the emotional side of the story and not all actors are good at it!.

A book, on the other hand, leaves the sights and sounds to your imagination and the author gives you a very complete picture of what the characters are thinking and feeling!.

Between the two ways, I prefer knowing what drives the characters, why they do the things they do!.

Orlando Bloom is not an elf to me, because I had a picture in my head of what the Tolkien elves looked like since I first read the books!.

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The problem with the movie version is that the director and actors get in the way!. Literature is an interpretive art form (good literature at least!.) We can both read the same book and pull completely different moods and messages from it!. With a movie you're perspective is narrowed to that of the director!. How boring!. The book requires imagination!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If the movie is based on a novel, the novel usually has more details and the movie cuts them out!.

If it's one book versus a completely different movie!? I see no reason!. People say books have more depth, but that's not really a rule!. I've seen plenty of deep films and depthless books!.

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Because they don't "both entertains and educates you as well", the book does it better!. They're two different art forms and the book will always give you more depth!. No matter how good the adaptation is, no matter how good the actors are, it is still art made by a committee!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If a book is bad, or if the author makes you mad, you can throw the book across the room and make a satisfying thwack!. If the movie is bad and you make a scene, you might get arrested!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think this is all preference--one is not always better than the other and is really subjective!.Www@QuestionHome@Com