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"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” - George Bernard Shaw

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Film v Print

Movies are way different from books. Movies are animated, and they are cooler than books. Movies provide concrete imagery and actions. There is a good side and a bad side to this. The good side is movies condense a scene that may take several pages in book to describe. The instant imagery gives the audience the idea of the work. This prevents misinterpretation from the story. However, by creating concrete image, it solidifies the characters and scenes, preventing any deviation to the plot explored by the readers. This disables the readers from imagining. Books usually earn more credit and is more popular because people can imagine them and twist them to their ideal interpretation. However,  with movies, the image may disappoint the audience by been different to what they thought. With movies, though, can allow audiences to picture what the director/author wants with rigid facts and details that may not be able to be mentioned in the story. After all, it is impossible for a book to describe everything in the scene. In short, books leaves the picturing to the readers, while the movie directors assume this task.

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