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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I have a movie for you that came to me reading your post... The Green Mile.
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I think that was a Stephen King story, but I never read it. The movie was absolutely great!
Movies are a great medium for entertainment, but not so good for expressing intellectual content. The book, "Beautiful Mind" was much deeper than the movie. If they ever make a movie of "State of Fear" (Chrichton) you can bet it will only be about ecoterrorism. They will leave out most of Chrichton's ideas about doing good science, science by consensus, and politicized science.
I think most would agree that there is usually a great difference between a science fiction novel and the movie made from it. SF is mostly about ideas. I have read several Stephen King novels, and they are devoid of ideas, but are interesting artistically. The movie, "The Green Mile" succeeded in arousing great feeling in the viewer. The book probably did the same.