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Can you tell me why you should read books before the movie?
So you can shut up people leaking spoilers of the movie by saying it doesn’t matter,
you already read the book.
I’ve also heard people use that as an excuse not to see a movie.
I don’t know if it sounds intellectual or offensive to spend time nitpicking the movie
relative to the book. Lord of the Rings had a few plot variations to make Arwen more badass.
And there was the speech that the wizard under Saruman gives in the books that is the ultimate
bureaucrat taking away freedom whereas the movie just had a wizard battle.
I consider that an upgrade from the books.
I heard that reading the books helps you understand scenes that otherwise only make sense through
the character’s eyes and mind.
Like the ending of 2001 where people didn’t understand his transformation into the Starchild,
just seeing him in a hotel aging inexplicably.
A lot of movie adaptations are too far removed from the books, kind of like the movies inspired
by true events that are closer to fiction than biographic.
It is funny to say they make movies based on a book to tap into a large, existing audience
and then abandon the book’s message.
And lose the audience.
And then there are movies that try to turn a story into an epic and fall flat.
A lot of books based on movies fall flat when they try to make it too teeny bopper or politically
correct.
Some books become a mess of a movie because all the action takes place inside the person’s
head.
There are movies that are just as bad because of what went on in the director’s head.
What’s the solution?
Read the book ahead of the movie to get a good handle on the plot and look intellectual.
If it still doesn’t make sense, reread the book or read the novel based on the movie
adaptation.
Or read the book to make sense of the movie.
And if the movie gets bad reviews, at least you still know what happened.
Then I can recommend the book to them instead.