Book Vs Movie Analysis

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A Comparison of Adaptations from Books to Movies We love watching movies especially when we’re together with our friends and family. A movie is interesting when it’s an adaptation of our favorite books, and it’s more entertaining when it has a famous actor or actress as one of the main characters or the leading lady. And because of that, people would prefer to watch a movie than to read a book. Although movie adaptations are entertaining and fun to watch, books are more immediate, more convenient and more detailed. There are plenty of reasons why the book is better than the movie adaptation. One of these is books are more immediate, because it is consistent and it is easy to understand. Books are consistent, because authors and writers alike …show more content…

Why? Because one, it’s cheaper. Yes, books costs more than a thousand pesos, but it stays with the owner for a very long time. The reader can decide when he or she’ll read it and they can keep it until they want to read it again. And there’s this aesthetic feeling every time a book or an old book is opened. The movie’s advantage is it only costs 150 pesos or more, compared to the book’s cost. And yes, there is a website where people can find and download these movies for free, but it isn’t always certain that the movie itself will have a good quality. And that a person has to wait for two months or more, depending on how early the DVD or Blu-Ray of the movie is released. It is known that the longer the movie is still demanded in theaters, the longer the wait for the release of its DVD or Blu-Ray. And, it does not mean that the movie is safe from being deleted from the laptops or other devices, as it sometimes needs 1 GB storage. Next books are convenient because, they last longer than movies, according to an article titled “Top Ten Reasons Why Books are better than Movies”. No matter how many times the book is revised, it will always have the same moral of the story. While movies change in different adaptations, or also known as a “Reboot” depending on how the director sees or visualize the story of the book, and it also depends on how the scriptwriter summarizes …show more content…

According to an online debate titled, “Are Movies Better than Books?”, one of these disadvantages of books that are stated is, it is not environmentally friendly. Because it uses papers and papers comes from trees. Once the manuscript is approved by the publisher, it is then printed to create numerous copies for the public to read. But with the generation of technologies, books can be electronic also known as E-books. It can be saved on laptops or in our phones. Another disadvantage is, not applicable to all. But as it is said in the previous disadvantage of books, there is an application to help them out, for example an audio book, where the app reads the story for them. And we can always research deep words for its meaning in the dictionary or the internet, but there are some people who are too lazy to do that and would prefer the words to be simple. But that does not give justice as to why books were created; because the deeper the words that are used, the more the brain is challenged to learn a whole new vocabulary. And according to Lana Winter-Hebert in her article titled “10 Benefits of Reading: Why You Should Read Every Day”, reading a book is beneficial to the health as it lowers the progress of Alzheimer’s and Dementia, since it makes the brain active and engaged; improving the memory, strengthening analytical and thinking skills, improves focus and concentration and it reduces

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