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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt
If there's virtually nothing different between the Twilight movie and the book (and I don't recall there being any real difference), why have the book at all?
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Oooh, I missed that one!
Impossible, my dear Watson.
A book is made of words. A movie is made of images and sounds.
How can you by any possible stretch of the imagination say that there is "virtually nothing different" between the two?
If there was "virtually nothing different", the movie would be redundent (not the book, since it was there first). Obviously some people don't feel that way, since presumably a number of them read the book AND saw the movie. Or the other way around.
Even movie/televised versions of theater plays can't be said to have "virtually nothing different" from the written play. I'm sure you can find many versions of most Shakespeare plays made at different times by different people, and -surprise!- they aren't all the same
Making a movie means creating something. Good or bad, 100% original or inspired from another work. It's still a work in its own right. There are even movies made from other movies. You may feel they don't do the original justice, or that they are better. But nobody will ever say that they are "virtually the same".