books vs movies

Refutations on Con's arguments: "I believe it is commonly known that movies can create more tension upon the watcher than books. They're thrilling, fast-paced and dynamic. " While this is an interesting argument there is no real proof that this is true. Movies may give the audience a visual picture and the music may foreshadow what is going to happen next, but these things don't make movies more "thrilling, fast-paced or dynamic". Books use punctuation to convey emotion like excitement, but ultimately it is the plot or the story line that we as an audience find thrilling or dynamic. People can get just as much enjoyment from a book as they can from a film. In books we may even see more complex parts to a character, most times in books we understand the plot even better because it is easier to see into the characters head. In books there is sometimes more writing about what the character is feeling and as an audience we may understand why the character acts the way he/she does. The whole point of a book is to tell a story, but in movies sometimes the story losses its intensity or thrill because the focus is more on the visual effects. For example in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie an entire scene was added that was not in the book, the book itself was filled with action but the one action scene with the chasing of the dragon in the movie that was added actually took away from the intensity and thrill of the story, that scene dragged the movie on because the information needed for that scene to happen never was revealed in the actual story. People all the time comment on reading a book saying "It's a page turner" or "I can't put the book down" If people are entertained or find a story thrilling they are going to continue to read and they have similar feelings to those watching a suspenseful scene in a movie. Just because we can see the characters or there is music queuing us in on spikes in the movie doesn't mean that those people reading a book aren't surprised, or don't find some parts of the story fast paced or dynamic. The author of a story uses things called style and tone to draw the readers in, change the mood and in a thrilling, suspenseful story the reader is going to be just as thrilled or surprised as someone watching a movie. Con says that movies are more fast paced and thrilling than books but I believe that they are the same. Both books and movies are suspenseful, thrilling, and dynamic and I have proven his argument wrong. "While some may like taking long times to read a book, most people are busy today and are working on their career as the no.1 thing in their life. " Con is right, people are very busy today and although movies take a shorter a amount of time to watch, this is just a preference for some people. Just because someone is busy doesn't mean they don't have time to read a book. Books are portable, they can be taken with you places; compared to carrying around a portable dvd player or a tv a book is much more portable. Yes, I know you can watch movies on your phone and other devices but those things also lose battery a book can be taken to the doctors office waiting room, on the train, the subway, they can be taken anywhere and can be read without any type of battery power or inconvenience to others. I would argue that books taking more time to read is a good thing because it prolongs the enjoyment you get from the story. With movies you watch them in a shorter amount of time but then the enjoyment is over, with a book you're money and your entertainment goes farther, you can read for days and read whenever you have time you don't have to clear and hour or more to read like you do to have to watch a movie. Con brought up a valid point with books taking longer but his argument is based solely on the fact that people are busy, yes although many people are busy, there are some that don't have jobs. In a time where the economy isn't as great as it could be there is a lot of unemployment and while those people I'm sure spend a lot of time looking for new jobs and working hard there are some people out there that aren't spread so thin and aren't so busy that they can't read a book. I have proven Con's argument false. My Arguments: 1. People aren't as disappointed in books as they are in movies. In books you can't be disappointed by special effects because you make up them up in your head and of course they come out the way you imagine. Same with the characters chosen to play the parts, in movies the character might not fit the part as you have imagined or they may have even ruined the role with bad acting, but in books once again we visualize what we want. While reading a story its almost like we direct a movie in our heads, we visualize the characters and we decide how we see things. 2. Movies have to cut out some of the complexity of a story, movies leave out the thoughts in characters heads, they don't include long dialogues. Movies have to be fast paced because if they weren't the audience would fall asleep within the first few minutes. In books we can see inside the chaacters head, we can understand why the character acts certain ways or does certain actions. The length of a book allows for us to ponder and understand the character and being able to put the book down and read it whenever we have the time allows us to understand and expand upon some of the more complex scenes.