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Originally Posted by drjd
Thanks everyone for sharing your views. While visual representation have their own limitations (and benefits too), does someone know of any movie which is a verbatim transformation of a book in terms of dialogues and details? Is that ever possible?
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I would say it is very rarely if ever possible to do such a verbatim transfer from text to video. A script is set up so 1 page = 1 minute of film time so a 120 page script = 2 hours of viewing. Take a book like 'Gone With The Wind' as an example. I'm not sure how long it is in paper but it's a fairly thick book to be sure. If everything in the book were included in a movie version it would probably take a very long time to watch. The book 'Centennial' by James Michener is fairly thick as well and it has a total watch time of some 26 hours spread out over around half a dozen DVD's. It's the problem of length that results in some things being cut from a story when it is filmed.