"But the book was better!"

[Amy Z]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., heidit at n... wrote:
> An article today at Salon Magazine, at 
> 
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2001/04/24/movies_books/index.
> html was food for thought over breakfast.
> 
> My husband & I were talking about this last week, because of a blurb 
> in Entertainment Weekly about a TCM airing of To Kill A Mockingbird 
- 
> his favorite book ever (yes, if Harry had been a girl, we would've 
> named the baby Harper!) and one of his favorite movies as well - the 
> blurb said, to paraphrase, "The movie that makes it impossible to 
> say, The book was better!"

I love movies--

I love the movie To Kill A Mockingbird--

Everyone in it is terrific--

The screenwriter, Horton Foote, is an excellent playwright in his own 
right and did an incredible job preserving the heart and soul of the 
book--

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch is one of the best casting decisions in 
movie history IMNSHO--

**BUT**

The book was better! ;-)  I mean, come on--just for starters, there's 
almost no Maudie Atkinson in the movie!

I do take the point--reading movies is different from reading books.  
I suppose I will always be biased toward the experience of reading.  
It is one of the great joys of my life, and as much as I love good 
movies, if I had to give up movies or reading for life, the choice 
would be very easy.

Amy Z