Thursday, August 16, 2007

book or movie???

Today i am going to talk about the great debacle which is better the book or the movie of the book.

Personally i believe that the book is a much better option that than the movie version of it. Many books are hundreds of pages long and are very indepth about the attitudes of the characters their feelings and the chalanges they face. Another advantage of the book is that the Author can put in as much information as they like.

A movie on the other hand cannot go into the same depth as a book as they only have a limited amount of time to get the story across to the audience. In a movie there is not enough time to explain how the characters feel, also in a movie many smaller scenes are not incorparated and much of the time is spent in battle scenes. This is bad as it is normally the smaller scenes that are what brings the story to life.

A good example of a book being better than the movie was in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. During the book Harry the main character learns much about a creature that is much like an lobster but sends out electric jolts. Later in the story Harry has to face the creatures in a maze where he defeats them after having so much practice against them. In the movie the dangerous creatures that harry has so much to do with are not mentioned at all. When it comes to the maze scene it is very boring as harry has nothing to face.

This is why i like books much better than their movie partner.

jack.r

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