[ExI] why the book is better

[William Flynn Wallace]

Godot - had forgotten about that - bill w

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 11:35 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Waiting For Godot.
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 6:24 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
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>
>> Agree.  They did a great job of casting in Lord of the Rings.  Trivia
>> question:   Do you know of another movie in which the title character is
>> never seen?  bill w
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 8:11 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
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>>> On 13/12/2021 20:13, billw wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> This (for me, at least) hits the nail on the head. When you read a book
>>> (if you are a visual thinker, anyway), you create your own visuals, imagine
>>> how the characters look and move, etc., and set the overall visual tone.
>>> When you then see the film of the book, it's inevitably different, and
>>> suffers in comparison.
>>>
>>> Purely by chance, the characters in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings
>>> films are very close to my imagined versions from reading the books
>>> (especially Gandalf and some of the elves, and, oddly, Smeagol), so I
>>> thought they were excellent films. On the other hand, the films derived
>>> from Anne Rice's 'Vampire Chronicles' books (of which there won't be any
>>> more because she just died) weren't very good because the characters, and
>>> other visual aspects of the films were wildly different to my imagined
>>> versions.
>>>
>>> Ben
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