It's an interesting idea, but not one that I necessarily agree with. (Personal opinion here) I think that it may be more that the movies provide an extra dimension, an additional layer of interpretation, to the books. Just as fan fiction, in a rather unusual way, does. In some ways, the films can be limiting: before the first film, every reader had a different image of Hogwarts. After the film, there was only one.
Now if you'd talked about the difference between the large screen and television...
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Interesting comparison between films and fanfic; that's one way to look at any book-to-movie transions like the Wizard of Oz and Lord of the Rings, for example -- perhaps they had a similar effect of replacing readers' multiple images of Oz and Middle Earth with a single one. I wonder if the Narnia films will do the same? I'm looking forward to the Narnia films but am almost a little reluctant to tinker with the way I've been seeing Narnia in my head for -- erm, many years.
And yes, there is a difference between the large screen and TV, particularly watching a DVD on a computer with a high-resolution (but small) monitor. The details are all there, but they're tiny, like a medieval miniature, and inherently less absorbing for that reason, at least for me. But then again I'm a slave to my eyes.
I too am looking forward to seeing how things proceed for Narnia - there is already a vast number of ancillary books and other materials that have been published - however I suspect it won't take off in quite the same way because the CS Lewis books have certain...overheads...which are different in different countries.
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Now if you'd talked about the difference between the large screen and television...
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Interesting comparison between films and fanfic; that's one way to look at any book-to-movie transions like the Wizard of Oz and Lord of the Rings, for example -- perhaps they had a similar effect of replacing readers' multiple images of Oz and Middle Earth with a single one. I wonder if the Narnia films will do the same? I'm looking forward to the Narnia films but am almost a little reluctant to tinker with the way I've been seeing Narnia in my head for -- erm, many years.
And yes, there is a difference between the large screen and TV, particularly watching a DVD on a computer with a high-resolution (but small) monitor. The details are all there, but they're tiny, like a medieval miniature, and inherently less absorbing for that reason, at least for me. But then again I'm a slave to my eyes.
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