2007-03-21 19:35:25 · 9 answers · asked by ~Shexy~ 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
state your reasons
2007-03-21 19:39:24 · update #1
I like to think I would always answer yes, but dang it sometimes I just get lazy. hahaha!
I can't follow Stephen King to save my life. I just do not have enough bread crumbs to get out of one of his flashbacks. But his movies are a great thrill.
And then there are times when I just want to know the story, so I would rather watch the movie because it doesn't take as long.
I do love reading though, a LOT. My books are some of my most prized possessions. Many of my fav books are so obscure and unknown, that they would never hit the big screen anyway. So having the book makes the story all that much more precious. Of course, I say that, knowing that years and years after I read "The Positronic Man" by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, they came out with "Bicentennial Man" which was a Robin Williams movie based on that book.
And I love movies based on books. Sometimes they really disappoint me, but more often than not, its just fun to compare how you imagined it in your head, with how the director put the images together. And it is a quick retelling of the story if you already read it. The Harry Potter movies are great fun for this reason. The imagery in it is somewhat different than I would have thought...and yet I don't resent them for showing me what they thought things looked like because it is so damn cool. How could I have dreamt up Dobby the house elf? OR Gollum from Lord of the Rings??
Having said that, I can give more props to a movie maker who pulled the story out of thin air, and made a movie that was never a book...and I enjoy movies in their own right too.
My fav book and movie pairing is To Kill a Mockingbird. Both are exquisite. I also loved Silence of the Lambs...both book and movie. OH and another one? What Dreams May Come. They were very different, the book and the movie, the filmmaker pretty much turned a non-fiction book into a fictional story based on the characters in the book. Quite a few liberties taken there. But they are both great.
A nice compromise to each is books on CD. Unabridged of course. Where you hear the whole written story, and there are no images to interfere with your own mental imagery...but there is sometimes a few sound effects, and different voices for the characters...and it is a lot more passive, maybe shorter way to "read" the book.
2007-03-21 19:41:22 · answer #1 · answered by musicimprovedme 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Movies are my life but when I read a book, it's like I get to make the movie without all the work and having to share my vision with a crew and dealing with actors and all that nonsense.
Books also have a real solidness to them. Movies are there ahead of you on the screen, intangible. With a book, you have it there in your hand and you can feel it and smell it, the words smudge off onto your thumbs (if you hold books the way I do, I guess, not everyone gets that black smear across the "already read" pages). Books are more possesable.
2007-03-21 21:16:12 · answer #2 · answered by vivalaslauren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True thrillers and interesting convoluted mysteries are like seeing a movie going on in your head while you read. Somehow a movie cannot show all of the little nuances that a good book does.
2007-03-22 04:32:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, b/c a book is more detailed than any movie and your brain gets to play the movie in ur head as you read it. It's better than watching what someone else thinks.
2007-03-21 19:41:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That depends on the mood I happen to be in at the time because sometimes I prefer books and other times I would rather watch a good movie. Actually, the answer to you question would be based on "individual" preference, and my preferences are constantly changing.
2007-03-22 14:42:33 · answer #5 · answered by Bethany 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends. If you do a thriller a book is better but if your doing an action movie or something like that than its better to see as a movie
2007-03-21 20:48:19 · answer #6 · answered by Karn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, your imagination is much more vivid than a movie could ever produce.
2007-03-21 19:38:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hell yeah, books are always better, things arn't quite so one demensional, you get insight into what characters are thinking, feeling..etc.
books rock
2007-03-21 20:15:01 · answer #8 · answered by Sevron 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely.....when you read you can imagine whatever you want....with a movie you are more limited
2007-03-22 08:29:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋