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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/12/2021 20:13, billw wrote:<br>
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style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Book
of course lack the visual aspects - Hermes</span><br>
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ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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. <br>
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<p>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. <br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Ben<br>
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