A Conversation for Talking Point: Is The Movie Ever Better Than The Book?
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Atlantic_Cable Started conversation Dec 9, 2003
The movie is rarely better than the book, but let's not forget why. The movie is two hours long, the book can be hundreds of pages long.
2001 was better than the book, but then again the book was written after the film.
I read "Catch Me If You Can" after seeing the film and have to say the book is better. The things Frank Abagnaile gets up to in the book far outweight the things in the film, plus the section on the brutality of the French prison verus the relative hospitality of the Swedish prison makes good reading on its own.
Many books are of course written after the film was made, like some of the Star Trek films. The books give a greater insight into the characters and films, for example, reading the book of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, there is a short piece about a media controversy that Spock and Kirk might be lovers, due to a cultural-translation error of the original Vulcan quote from Spock.
On a last point the "Master and Commander - Far Side of the World" film is actually based on two books in a series of about 20.
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