Why The Book Is Better Than The Movie

Frustration. Anger. Sadness. Disappointment. These are the emotions you will feel when your favorite book is turned into a movie. Just like my friend Corey at Insane Literature, I am here to explain to you why movies are such disappointments compared to their book counterparts.
For one, books are much more detailed than the movie. This is because there are certain things can only be explained with words, not be shown through images. You can describe a scene using so much detail and because that book may be fiction you can't replicate it in real life. Plus that scene description takes much longer to get through then just seeing an image on the screen.
The second reason is that putting that much detail in a movie doesn't work with a set time stamp. If the creators and writers of a movie included everything that was in said book, that movie would most likely be over five hours long. Due to the fact that the average movie length is two hours long, the writers have to cut important dialogue, character interaction, character buildup, and important plot-developing scenes. These cuts make the writers have to write in new shorter scenes and change the order of the scenes kept in the script, thus changing the entire story line.
The third reason is the casting choices. We all have those somewhat vague but still prominent images of what we expect the characters to look like in our heads. When it comes to movies, the actor is EXACTLY who you pictured in your head or the polar opposite, being they cast someone not even fitting the description of who you were imagining based on the description given to you in the book.
A fourth overall reason includes the fact that reading uses your imagination and creativity. Letting the words guide you, you create your own "movie" in your head of the plot. But with a movie it is all just laid out for you. This isn't bad, it just isn't food for thought. Like I said in The Ways To Tell A Story, movies in a sense are just a square box for your mind and you can't color outside the lines. Don't get me wrong, movies are up there in my list of favorite pass-times, I just enjoy reading the slightest bit more because of creativity use.