Which Do You Prefer?

If you’re not that creative and you go to see movies that are based on books, for solely the purpose of amusement you would have no care in the matter of books versus movies. But if you are an individual in which whom loves literature and has a certain affinity for all the "little details" a book brings, you would be quite upset when the movie fails to bring some of the events to life on the big screen. Yes, films are a visual masterpiece and they should be recognized in their attempts to personify a book but ultimately they fail to deliver. Books just seem to offer a more enjoyable portrayal in the realm of imagination, if the reader has artistic sensibilities. In my opinion movies just can’t sum up all the little details that entire novel can bring. Just the simple look of an actor in a movie can contort your opinions of what you imagined to be true.  For example in the Harry Potter series, J.K Rowling describes Harry having glasses. If you imagined him rockin' a pair of Ray Ban's throughout his years at Hogwarts you'd be quite disappointed when on screen he was wearing a pair of science goggles. Overall, books overwhelm movies in superiority because they provide more imaginative realms to discover and explore, while the film is just a cut and paste, dry interpretation of the directors POV.

Comments

[Seth P.]

Harry Potter is a great example of a movie not living up to the book's standards. There's no way they would be able to include every detail so inevitably it could not be better than the books.