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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
I just find it superior personally as I'm more in the camp that a story teller needs to get the story to you exactly the way the want you to experience it. Books leave too much to the imagination--but I know that's what you and others love about them.
With film you have the words (dialogue) but also the images, the voices, the emotions etc. portraying things as the director intends and most everyone watching it should have a similar emotional reaction on a scene by scene basis etc.
But that's just me. I'm a very visual person, and not very imaginative/creative so I get more out of a great movie than I do a great book--though I enjoy both.
Similarly, I hate abstract art. I want to see an artist get his message across to nearly everyone who sees it, not make something that gives different experiences to different people.
So that's kind of where I'm coming from on my appreciation of art, movies, books etc.
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Valid points.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
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Sorry, KC.......
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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Well, since "comics" (cave drawings) predate the written word I doubt there are any real risks involved here.
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Uh.......maybe because there wasn't literacy at the time?
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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
Surely neither books nor films are "better", just different. Some things come across better visually while others - especially where there is a focus on what people are thinking and feeling - are often best done with words.
I agree with your sentiment that people shouldn't be snotty about "good" reading, but I don't think that people were being so on this thread - we were discussing the reference to someone who perhaps was (although I only read the excerpt, so may not be doing him justice).
On the comics front, they're not something that I look at often, but I was given an interesting one for Christmas called "Logicomix" which is about Bertrand Russell's quest to find an unassailable foundation for logic. It would have been difficult to capture the flavour of that book in text, I think.
I've also got the BBC comics for Othello and King Lear - I'd recommend any of that series if you encounter them second hand. They are the full text, but the illustrations make it a closer experience to seeing them played, compared to reading them "dry" on the page.
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Really? I am so out of it. (cue in witch scene from Wizard of Oz, the original.........."OH, what a world, what a world......."
Well, I can see we're way off topic. Apologies for hijacking your thread.