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I hate reading novels, but at the same time, I feel guilt or rather regret for ignoring great novels like: Les Miserables, Ulysses,.. etc.

On the other hand, I watched them turned into movies.

I know that I missed a lot. My question: what is that missed and is it a necessary component?

Thanks

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A movie adds a new dimensions to a written work.

Moving images are able to convey meaning in areas where the literal message alone cannot.

Sound is also a component to movies. Thus music can be used.


Because well-made movies capture and embrace ALL senses at the same time a good movie can suspend an individual and encase their attention in a way literal words cannot.






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This was a GREAT topic.


In short, the novel looses the phoney opulence that it once enjoyed before it was turned into a movie.







Thank you for adding a GREAT topic to the forum - right out of the box!



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Damn, not seen so many sentences from you before Bill!

The component you loose the most is your own imagination, because your imagination knows how to entertain you and therefore it neatly conjures a fitting world in your head where everything is tailored especially for you with the content of the book merely as the tools and resources you use to make that imagination.

When you watch a movie, you're being taught how your imagination should be like, in a book, you teach yourself, in that sense, it feels a hell lot more rewarding. Those rare cases of movies being better than books, are probably the rare cases where the movie director knows something about his audience the audience itself does not. Or he just have a hell lot of luck

Thanks Bill,

I find myself obliged to prefer movies over novels, maybe due to my laziness:) also my feeling that I am wasting my time when reading novels.
This my own opinion, for I restrict myslef to philosophy and theories of literature and art.. I was reared on them not on vonels.

greetings

of course.. imagination would be lost or suspended. Also lost the capacity of literary writing and of precise discrption of things, realtions, acts, and more inmportant; subtle emotions .
But, there are arenas for kindling imagination such as poetry, philosophy ... etc.

Nicholas Mirzoeff in his " An Introduction to Visual Culture" says: "literature is bourgeois and image is democratic". But, when it comes to the freeing of imagination, then the opposite of that phrase will be right:)