The Movie is Better than the Book

First I'd like to start out by stating that it takes much less time to watch a movie than to read a book. Movies are about one and half hours. Maybe even two hours. A book can take a whole day to read and possibly even longer. For the modern day we live in people have schedules and do not necessarily have the time to spend on a long book. You will be able to enjoy more stories if you are an avid movie watcher than if you are a book reader. Another point I"d like to make is that movies allow more sensory involvement than a book. In a movie you use one of your main senses for critical thinking. The visual picture is crucial for interpreting data. There is more to be seen in an image than a couple pages of paper explaining a picture. Books can involve imagination, but can also distance themselves from the author"s original intent if they interpret the text incorrectly. In movies, there is often music. Music uses the auditory part of the human brain and can invoke the correct emotion that the story teller wants to convey. A book cannot do this. The visual and auditory aspects of a movie can be added together simultaneously to add the correct emotion and message it wants to give across. A lot of children in schools are forced to read a lot of textbooks and this can be especially boring for them. This makes an association in their mind that "reading" = "boring". When they are transferred over to fantasy/fiction reading some of those feelings are anchored to the facts that they previously have about reading. Note that this is not automatically true for everyone, but it is true for enough to people to make the point valid. I also add emphasis on fantasy books and fiction, because a lot of the books made into movies fall into that genre. Movies are also generally more interesting and valuable than textbooks or books about history/science. There is a reason kids groan in school when having to read another book their teacher hands them and get excited when they get to watch a movie. When reading a book about facts sometimes the number of facts can get overwhelming and some of the important ones can be forgotten. When watching a movie, the unnecessary details are left out. With the combination of visual and auditory messages a student, or person in general, can take more away from the information being presented. When something is more entertaining it is also easier to be remembered[1]. If by chance you are forced or made an agreement to watch a movie/book and it happens to be a boring topic, you will be in much more distress making your way through the book than watching the movie which consumes less time. My brother and sister were both forced to read Johnny Tremain in school. This book was very boring for them. I had to watch the movie in school. I suffered having to watch this god-awful movie, but I endured the pain in less time. When you read a book it is much easier to lose your spot in a page if there is a distraction in the room. With a movie you can turn the volume up or even watch a movie on your computer if other people don"t want to hear it. If you have to get up to blow your nose with a tissue you can easily pause a movie and hit play when you come back. When reading a book, you have to finish the paragraph/page in order to not get lost when you come back. In the process you might have a gob of liquid snot drop on the page. When you get up to grab a tissue the pages might glide over to a different spot if you didn"t crease the book. Now you lost your spot and two pages are stuck together because of the snot on the page. Books are so long you sometimes need bookmarks and can have 3 or more books going at once. If you neglect the book long enough, you will forget what you were even reading about and lose interest. Movies are better for a wide range of people. Some people are illiterate and can"t read, but much more people can understand speech. You can even understand what is going on in a foreign movie, to an extent. With a book it would be pretty much impossible. Book people are more often willing to enjoy the movie version of that book. A movie person is more likely to enjoy the movie, but won"t bother with the book. Lord Of the Rings is a popular book as well as movie. Book people, who enjoyed the book, tend to like the movies as well to a lesser extent. However, movie people that watch the movie, might not be able to stand the enormous details given in the book. The social aspect of watching a movie is much more engaging. People can go to the movie theatre with their friends/family and can experience the emotions and story line together. Some people enjoy talking throughout the movie and relating with characters and moments in the story. You can read in a book club, but when you are reading it is often too slow and may take the span of days. Not everyone will necessarily attend all meetings and they could miss out. Also, you are much better off taking a first date to a movie then you would read a book together. The reading thing could get awkward real fast especially if one of you had a stutter or felt self-conscious about reading out loud. Watching a movie passes no judgement. You can try and interpret the deep meaning of a movie or you can kick back and relax. It is free for you to decide. Movies are more time efficient as well as more stimulating. It is much more effective for learning, appeals to a wider range of people, and it can be an incredibly social experience as well. [1] http://voices.washingtonpost.com...