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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
I know. They are not my preferred form of art intake though.
I have seen some wonderful films, as high in art as anything else ever made.
most movies to me, even the GREAT ones, are like short stories, and not like novels.
due to the inherent limits of film it is nearly impossible to truly adapt the depth and scope of even the shortest novella into a film. all you can do is "streamline" the story and make the movie. this to me is quite unsatisfying. even great movies deal with topics on a very shallow level. it is just impossible for film, for a 2 or 3 hour film, to convey the depth and riches that a written novel brings.
short stories are wonderful, and CAN be life changing, but the ratio is quite small, same for films, while even mediocre novels can impact one's life in deep ways.
it is like Cliff Notes. I can plainly see th gaps.
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I try not to compare film and literature.
The only movies that come close to their novel companions are One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Catch-22. But the film adaptation One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest lacks Bromden's view of the world and what they were doing in there which is a huge metaphor for society. The Catch-22 movie focuses more on the death of Snowden then the book, but it lacks a lot of things that are impossible to convey in a movie. Yossarian thinking that he knew why Jesus went and lived with the lepers. Or the part where Yossarian is thinking about grabbing the nurse's snatch. (those 2 parts really stuck out to me and were very well written)
Conversely though, a great film to book adapatation is non-existant. Could you imagine The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly without the music and those camera shots? Or any Sergio Leone film. In all of his films, when you hear a gunshot, you really hear it. The sound of a gunshot in his films is breathtaking and heart stopping.