Novel vs Movie
Novel
When reading the book you develop your own imagination of how the characters would look like, how they move, react and in which world they live in, you imagine the general look of the story. Another important aspect of books is the way it is written, the specific grammar of the book, so a book transports the story with words that inspire you to create your own perspective of things.
Films
A movie works completely different, a movie shows, a movie tells a story with its own language, in fact there are several different levels how a movie tells a story:
- Filmlook
- Acting
- Staging
- Camera Work
- Editing
- Sound & Music
All these are different layers that work together and affect the movie on the whole, all these different layers take effect on the audience, so as a movie maker you have loads of possibilities how to tell a story.
Comparing books and movies
So if you watch a movie and you also read the book you could judge each media by itself, "it is a good / bad book" and "it is a good / bad movie", but its nonsense to say "the book is better than the movie", the movie is just a small part of the story adapted for a movie.
If you watch a movie with the intention that it perfectly imitates your own imagination you had from the book, the movie wont work for you. Of course it depends on how detailed the descriptions in the book have been, but in most cases dont expect the movie to bring your phantasy on the screen, in almost every case youll be disappointed.
Instead try to give both media a chance, if you liked the book dont expect the movie to contain every detail of the book, try to put aside everything from the book and let the movie work. Even if just a quintessence from the story from the book has made it into the movie, and the movie works for you, its a good movie.
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