While not trying to sound depressive, I have never seen a movie that lived up to the vitality, colour, and sheer mental theatre enjoyed by reading the book.
Name any book, and I will guarantee that I enjoyed, or will enjoy it, should I get around to reading it, more than I will enjoy the movie.
I think it is something they put in the ink, and so when your fingers turn the pages, via the skin tingling wonder of osmosis they absorb the very essence of the writer's thoughts ... every smell he experienced, every shift of light in his peripheral vision, every fleeting idea.
Watch that penultimate paragraph as a movie and all you'll see is a page being turned, but when you read it you saw the dog eared top corner of the page, you heard the rustle of the paper as it was read, felt, and discarded for the next one .... the heft of the book itself binding you to the story in a way that just cannot happen when you share a large auditorium with a group of strangers, or sit at your own private screen, your cup of coffee guttering on the side table like a candle bereft of life itself.
Okay, but I think you are downplaying or underestimating the potential contribution of an underlying musical score such as the ones written by Ennio Morricone (for Cinema Paradiso, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West etc etc).
That's what I was thinking. Everything she ever did on screen made whatever it was better. And she was brave and true and 100-percent a stand-up person in real life, too. For those who haven't read it: look up /Sally Field abortion story/.
Speaking of Sally Field, one movie I enjoyed more than the book was Forrest Gump. But that was due to the fact that the story and character of Forrest was VERY different. Sandra
While not trying to sound depressive, I have never seen a movie that lived up to the vitality, colour, and sheer mental theatre enjoyed by reading the book.
ReplyDeleteName any book, and I will guarantee that I enjoyed, or will enjoy it, should I get around to reading it, more than I will enjoy the movie.
I think it is something they put in the ink, and so when your fingers turn the pages, via the skin tingling wonder of osmosis they absorb the very essence of the writer's thoughts ... every smell he experienced, every shift of light in his peripheral vision, every fleeting idea.
Watch that penultimate paragraph as a movie and all you'll see is a page being turned, but when you read it you saw the dog eared top corner of the page, you heard the rustle of the paper as it was read, felt, and discarded for the next one .... the heft of the book itself binding you to the story in a way that just cannot happen when you share a large auditorium with a group of strangers, or sit at your own private screen, your cup of coffee guttering on the side table like a candle bereft of life itself.
Leastways, that's what I think.
Lol.
Okay, but I think you are downplaying or underestimating the potential contribution of an underlying musical score such as the ones written by Ennio Morricone (for Cinema Paradiso, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West etc etc).
DeleteSally Field has been entertaining us for so long (and I'm grateful).
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was thinking. Everything she ever did on screen made whatever it was better. And she was brave and true and 100-percent a stand-up person in real life, too. For those who haven't read it: look up /Sally Field abortion story/.
DeleteSpeaking of Sally Field, one movie I enjoyed more than the book was Forrest Gump. But that was due to the fact that the story and character of Forrest was VERY different.
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Ack! Don't tell me anything! I just got the book.
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