book or movie first (WAS: I've always loved the visual of seeing...)

[werebearloony]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, katherine.coble at c... wrote:
> 
> 
> 	Whizbee writes:
> 
> > Okay, something is bugging me. I know lots of people are 
bothered by 
> > the 1st and 2nd movies being "Chris Columbus-ized"...but I 
personally 
> > have thought both of them were great! I've lost count of how 
many 
> > times I've watched them.
> > 
> My personal opinion is that it really matters which came first--
the movie or
> the book.
> 
> If you saw the movie(s) first, you have a good introduction to the
> characters, and a thrilling, rich visual context.
> 
> However, if you read the book(s) first, as I did, you are caught 
up in "Oh!
> they changed my favourite part!" and
> "Where are Fred and George?" and "How come Harry's week at the 
Burrow is
> condensed into a 30-second breakfast?"
> 
> The first time I saw COS I had just come off re-reading the books 
for the
> 9th time in anticipation of the movie.  I was SO
> let down by the movie's (non) depiction of scenes.  The problem 
with CC's
> direction, as I see it, is that he was doing such
> a slavish adaptation that he wasn't making a true MOVIE.  <snip>> 
>  I'm hoping 
> > that the third will be just as magical.
> Mycropht

Now me (loony):
Personally, I prefer to read a book before I see the movie of it.  I 
find that if see the movie first i'm constantly comparing the book 
to the movie and seeing things as the director (conceptual artist, 
set designer, ect.) saw it.  The worst part for me is when I'm 
reading the book and I hear lines from the movie in my head (I'm an 
auditory thinker so I really think how things should *sound).  That 
aside, I treat movies as someone else's different conception of the 
same work, so it shouldn't be exactly the same and I like comparing 
the differences.  I also love the look of the movies, they're 
beautiful, and I like seeing how it looks because  I'm sound 
orientated, so I get annoyed with how they *say* the lines, not what 
the castle looks like.

~~loony

PS: TSP is my favorite Shakespere tragedy, both to perform and to 
see.  So I loved the trailer. But I won't discuss it out loud 
anymore because my play opens friday and I'm scared of what will 
happen if I say the name.