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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Midnight" data-source="post: 478426" data-attributes="member: 69">I'm arguing against the idea that a film can't do justice to a book. I think that's ridiculous. If you cited all the horrible book-to-film adaptions in existence, you still couldn't convince me. Moving pictures is/are a new storytelling medium. The written word is far older than I could give a value to here. As a storytelling medium, which offers more potential? Movies give you sound and moving images. Books leave pretty much everything to your imagination. Some people would say that's better. Think about this- a movie allows you to see the writer's/director's vision, as THEY imagine it. A book has to describe it for you and leave the imagining to you. This works well for some, certainly. However, not all of us have fertile imaginations. I say if you prefer to imagine how the watcher in the water looks instead of seeing someone else's interpretation on the screen, that's a matter of taste. There are advantages to both media, but I don't think you'll find more in books than you will in moving pictures. As a STORYTELLING MEDIUM, moving pictures can and do tell more all at once, and convey imagery, scenes, dialogue, and action without having to translate the teller's story through the written word.</blockquote>