XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: fwbrown@bellsouth.net   
      
   In alt.fan.tolkien Lewis  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Or to look at it another way:  Take a group of people who all the read the   
   >> same book, but had different reactions to it.  A particular person may   
   >> have laughed at parts that made someone else sad, and made someone else   
   >> angry.  Now show them the film, and each should have the same reactions,   
   >> i.e. be amused or saddened or angered by the same things in the film as   
   >> in the book.  In other words, the film should create the same reactions,   
   >> convey the same message, in effect, give the same *experience* as reading   
   >> the book, even though that experience may vary from one person to another.   
   >   
   > Care to give an example?   
      
   I can't, firstly because I've never gathered a group of people and   
   conducted such an experiment, and secondly because I don't think I've   
   ever seen a film that really got it right.  That may be because I watch   
   comparatively few films, and even fewer that are based on books that   
   I've read, simply because the experience so often is disappointing.   
   The most recent thing I've seen was the second "Hobbit" film.  Like the   
   first one it was a pleasant way to waste an afternoon (in spite of its   
   many annoyances), but I doubt I'll ever watch it again.  In contrast,   
   I've read the book (along with LOTR and "The Silmarillion") more than   
   a dozen times, and probably will do so again someday.   
      
   --   
   F. Wayne Brown    
      
   Þæs ofereode, ðisses swa mæg.  ("That passed away, this also can.")   
      from "Deor," in the Exeter Book (folios 100r-100v)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)