[ExI] why the book is better

[William Flynn Wallace]

 Book of course lack the visual aspects - Hermes
Au contraire - I love the visuals in my head far better than the ones on
the screen.  The actors never seem to look like what I imagine.  To me, the
main aspect of a movie that the book lacks entirely is music.  And you get
blasted with giant woofers in action films - too much, I say.   bill w

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 1:06 PM Hermes Trismegistus via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Books and movies have different priorities. Book of course lack the visual
> aspects so their value is derived entirely from the emotions and visions
> they inspire within us. A profitable movie without much of a plot can be
> produced by leveraging stimulating visuals, while a book without a plot
> will fall flat. There is also more competition for writers than film
> producers since the development cost of a book is low enough that the
> average individual can afford to write one. More books are being produced
> than movies so statistically there is a greater chance of an excellent new
> book being produced than an excellent movie. Individuals writing books are
> less constrained by outside influences and have more creative freedom in
> general. Essentially, coherent, unique, and innovative works of art do not
> scale. Risk aversion rises with scalability and a risk averse artist is a
> crippled one.
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> *From: *spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Sent: *Monday, December 13, 2021 1:33 PM
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> *Subject: *[ExI] why the book is better
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> Many of us have heard people comment about books which have been made into
> movies, or we viewed the film adaptations ourselves.  A nearly uniform
> comment… (do I even need to say it?)… the film was good but the movie was
> better.
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> Ok.  Sure.  With very few exceptions, that is true.  But… why?
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> For the moment’s let’s skip over the fact that film is slow: you can’t
> cover much of a book in 90 minutes of drama.  Ignore that for a minute and
> focus on why the written version just seems better than the drama version,
> even given a cast of really good actors and a good script writer.
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> BillW?  Adrian, some of you insightful sorts, do offer a speculation
> please if you have one.
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