books vs movies

Defending my arguments: 1. Of course people can see a book in two ways, what is so weird about interpreting symbolism, moods, characters, and themes in different ways. I could read a book and my friend could read a book and both of us may see different meanings to the story or interpret it differently. With movies you may be able to interpret things slightly differently as well, but not as well because as stated before movies present the audience with a permanent picture. I can't look at a black dog in a movie and say the dog is brown because both me and the rest of the audience saw that the dog was brown; but in a book it might say "the dark creature in the woods ran swiftly past me" After reading that I could come to a few conclusions the creature could be a dog, a cat, a wolf, a bear, etc... and it could also be several colors, maybe black, brown,gray, etc... Books are meant to be interpreted differently and to be imagined differently from reader to reader, movies don't allow for as much imagination. The special effects do have a point in this argument. What are special effects? They are the illusions or optical and mechanical effects used in theatre, movies etc... They are used to add to the story like say there is a fire scene in the movie, the fire, the smoke and the characters in the fire may all be illusions, they aren't going to actually have the stars of the movies in a burning building or 2ft away from an exploding bomb. The visual effects are what allow scenes that can be easily described in a story come to life without putting hollywood's stars in jeopardy. In a book the effects can be described or we could just picture them because we are given some details that lead us to assume. We can't be disappointed by them because we visualize them, but in movies they might be bad, they might be unbelievable. Not just in comparing the books to their movie counterpart but in the sense that we could watch any movie and be disappointed by what we see, where in a book we take the details we are given and make our own mental picture. 3. Movies may not be meant to be complex but they are expected to tell a story and be comprehendible, movies can't use flashbacks like books do, they do use them in some cases and they do work out in some movies but in many cases we don't get the full idea of the story or we might be confused while watching a movie with too many flashbacks because they are trying to give us information that we will need later but they end up dragging on the plot and losing the thrill or suspense. Refutations: "No one watches films for a deep story line" Con writes that no one watches films for a deep story line, this is just a preference, some people do watch movies for the plot and the symbolism, movies aren't just all about the visual aspect. Like books movies try to convey a story if a movie didn't have somewhat of a deep storyline the audience would be lost and same for books, there is just some information that is needed to understand a story and without them in both books and movies the audience is lost. That is why books are better, because they can go into full detail, and they can flashback because people can put the book down and analyze what they just read. Movies on the other hand try to shove the story down your throat and are too quick to get to the climax. "Books will never be able to portray action as movies do" Con says books can't portray action as movies do but he's wrong. Say you are watching a movie and a fight scene breaks out, one guy kicked another and the one that was kicked falls to the ground. Yes this is very visual and we completely comprehend what just happened in this scene but books can allow us to picture it just as well as if we were actually seeing it. For example "Suddenly, one man ran out from the side of a tall, eerie building and sprung on his innocent opponent from behind. With one powerful roundhouse kick the innocent man was sent plummeting to the ground." The adjectives that writers use and the tone and style they write with evokes emotion and stimulates the mind to visualize what they are reading. I could picture a man falling to the ground after getting kicked, it is the way the author writes that allows us to visualize the action taking place. If books weren't able to portray action every book ever written would have very little thrill, or they would all be one genre which would be boring, so clearly that is not the case. Con then brings up the argument about unemployment, I never used youth in my example and if youth are studying full or part time then I wouldn't consider them unemployed. I'm a bit confused as to how the topic of youth unemployment fits or supports cons argument but I will continue to support my arguments. Con writes that youth like the idea of movies more than books and they associate books with school. I disagree, I think it is just preference. There are many younger people that I'm sure prefer to read, If we are talking about movie adaptations of books especially, many have said that the Harry Potter books and the Twilight books were much better than the movies. Youth liking movies more isn't much of an argument it is more so a preference, In social situations with friends of course they are going to want to watch a movie unless someone wants to read a book aloud but that doesn't make movies better than books. My arguments: 1.Books allow for a narrative voice to fill in gaps and give the reader necessary information needed to understand the story. Movies might have to drag on or explain so much more because there is a lacking of a narrative voice. 2.Books encourage imagination and a creative mind, while movies do quite the opposite, they present one perspective. Especially in movie adaptations of books, for example now Hermione Granger is Emma Watson etc...