How do you guys feel about it?
We have ma nymanymany examples like:
Atonement
Pride and Prejudice
The Namesake
and the likes of..Twilight
A lot of Shakespeare’s plays have been turned into movies and a number of short stories too.
I often prefer the books, it allows me to imagine. The movies present the characters and plot different from how I envision them.
I think it really depends on the actors and the author’s involvement in the movie…
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Different versions of the same scene!!
(1941, 95, and 05)
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sometimes the screenplay compliments but it does much much hurt to the book itself. Its a nice feeling to have personified version of the characters you like to read but the plot itself gets almost inorganic, so much has to be deducted and adjusted in order to cope with the time limits etc.
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yea screenplay is key, i suppose they can't follow the book scene by scene and they have to modify it to make it practical...but i refuse to let go of the pictures i make in my mind:D
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obviously no one does. But seeing the characters with your physical eye is still the charm of it, the only one though.
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^i suppose, even then i have these images in my mind and a lot of times the actors just fail
and i suppose sometimes it's a way to make money off of a popular novel too....
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what about when they are NOT told as they are and if it is a happening from history.
Like Movie "300"
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^havent seen the movie...so explain!
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^^ watch it and then you will get the explanation
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how can u make me do that:crying:
personally i would always opt for the book rather than the film adaptation. it requires more use of your imagination, its always far more detailed. films somehow very rarely manage to capture or retain all of a book or its spirit. sometimes the film makes changes to the ending. i usually find myself disappointed by the film lol.
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^omg...i cannot accept a changed ending!!! I suppose they need to think of the profit and general public.
Pretty much what i was going to say :k:
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Does Stuart Little qualify as literature turned into movie? First one was just amazing. Still one of my favorite.
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^ok i prefer that one as a movie too 
SOO CUTE
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The main difference is that in literature we are inside the the characters' heads and privy to their thought processes, and that is a dimension which film does not achieve; or at least not in the same intimate way that words do.
There are some godawful adaptations. The good ones include; To Kill a Mockingbird, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Remains of the Day, and Straw Dogs. In fact, Straw Dogs was way more powerful than the book.
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i LOVE TKAM...all time fav!
and you're right about movies not reaching a certain dimension
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If i really wanted to get an understanding, i would read the literature. Otherwise i would prefer to watch the film....
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^i guess if you have read the book beforehand its different, but yes otherwise i would just watch the movie
and I don't like to read a book after i have seen the movie.
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Yeah, Gregory Peck was awesome.