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downtheyellowbrickroad:

THIS is why The Catcher in the Rye should never, ever be made into a film. If Hollywood ever get’s their dumb, greedy, snarky hands on this wonderful piece of literature, I hope everyone involved dies a sudden, painful death therefor having to end the project. The end.

i’ve always been a defender of both books and film - a “literary” audience often thinks most films are just for entertainment and are therefore less didadictic than the written word. and on the other hand, there’s many who refuse to read any books at all - they’re “boring”. i would have a lot of words with either group if i had the time.

but i’ve realised that the mediums do dictate how a message or meaning can be formed - and there is a primary reason for this (as well as many secondary ones). while not necessarily less intellectual than books, the key difference with a film is that the process of consuming it is presented to the audience. with a book, it is self-directed by the reader. the pacing of a book’s scene can be drawn out in a variety of subtle ways; three seconds of time in a book universe can be as meaningful as what happens in an hour, days or weeks. movies are real time, so we have to skip things or resort to usually tacky effects like slow motion. you put a book down as you read; you think as you read, and you pave the way of your journey. you’re reflecting THE ENTIRE TIME; in a movie you dont have a chance to do this, you’re only reacting to visual and aural phenomena. 

again, this doesn’t mean films are less meaningful - only that it is more difficult to create a journey in which the reader has space to explore their own thoughts.