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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2130176" data-attributes="member: 5171">Canis: Definitely true, re:movies and books. I had a great time watching the Lord of the Rings movies, though, and it'd been awhile since I'd read the books, so I'm probably not the right person to do that. I also get accused of trying to be too cinematic in my own writing (ie, people saying "This would make a great movie, but I'm having trouble reading it as written down like this") in a few cases, which likely stems from the fact that when I write, I pretty much envision a movie and write the novelization of the movie in my head.  So I'm probably not going to be in touch with the differences. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />(Although I've recently discovered that movies seem to be better at heist capers than books -- a book based on The Sting has to stay in the viewpoint of a character who doesn't know about the big end-twist, stick with camera-eye viewpoint (ie, writing without saying what anyone is thinking), or lie about what a character is thinking in order to achieve the big twist at the end, since it's clear that both Newman and Redford were in on it. In a movie, you don't have to say what people are thinking, but most books are written from the viewpoint of the hero, which means that the hero can't surprise the reader with something he's been planning the whole time unless the author does some backflips to come up with a "Aha, it was implanted subliminally" twist or something.)Nakia: Thanks -- I think it's a great experiment, too, but it's an experiment that really cranks up things that aren't selling points for me. That said, it's doing really really well on RottenTomatoes at the moment, so I could be completely full of it. Week two will be the telling point, I think -- it's had enough good press and enough critical praise that I suspect it'll have a good week one.</blockquote>

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