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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:29:42 -0000, "Donal" wrote:


"MC" wrote in message
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Donal wrote:



Films rarely manage to capture more than a tiny percentage of the
brilliance
of a good book.


Sometimes they can be much more. Perhaps you should look beyond the
'plot' and consider the cinematography... At a physical data content
level a film generally contians far more data than a book.

I only consider the "experience".

I am not one of the literatii. I believe that a book, or film, should
entertain, or inform.


What about inspire, invigorate, motivate or otherwise move you?

I would suggest that they could all be covered by "entertain, or inform".
However, I do agree that they merit special mention.


I was attempting to distinguish the technical aspects of a film's production
from the viewable result of the technicians' efforts.
IMHO, you should be unaware of the "effects" while you are watching a movie.




I have never seen a film that entertained me more than the book. In
fact,
whenever I have seen the film of a book that I have read, it was a total
dissappointment.


In many cases, if you saw the movie first and then read the book, you
would
think the book didn't live up to the movie.

That's possible. However, usually the book contains much more than the
film.



IMHO, the cinematography and special effects should compliment the film
in a
totally passive way.


??? Is art worthless and meaningless?

No.

Are you one of those nitwits who think
that if it doesn't rhyme it's not poetry,

No, although some people produce meaningless jumbles of words, and call them
poetry.
I do enjoy that Japanese form of poetry (13 sylabills?) that doesn't seem to
rhyme at all.

and that you could throw paint on a
canvas as well as those no-talent artists represtented in the MOMA?

I get angry about the UK's Turner Prize. Piles of bricks, unmade beds,
and dead sheep are not art to me.

I must also admit that I don't understand Van Gogh. A field of yellow
flowers either looks accurate, or it looks like a smudge. However, when I
saw my wife's reaction to that painting, I recognised that she was affected
in the same way that a piece of music can affect me. I guess that our
brains are wired differently. We all respond to different things.





Regards


Donal
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