Oct 21, 05
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You learn more about how someone else was able to (financially) envision a story in a movie.
You learn more about yourself by what you bring to visually enhance, in your mind's eye, the story you're being told, in a book. Frosty (likes movies, but, loves books) 
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Oct 21, 05
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When I love a book I really get involved with it on a way more personal level than with a movie. Some longer books you spend days, weeks, even months with. Sometimes you find yourself thinking about it during the day and reflecting on themes or characters...
I dunno, I'm going to have to go with books.
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Oct 21, 05
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I'd have to say books because they go into far more detail than movies do.
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Oct 21, 05
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books allow you to read between the lines and, as frosty said, visualize what's happening in your own way, which makes the experience a lot more personal. when i read a book, it's going to be a lot different than when you do. i suppose the same can be said for movies, but to a much, much lesser extent, as everything from the way people act and look, to the sounds of their voices it spelled out for you explicitly.
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Oct 21, 05
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that said, if a movie is adapted from a book, it gives you an insight into how someone else might have read it and into things you might have missed in your own interpretation. for a good example, watch coppola's "apocolypse now" and read "heart of darkness" by joseph conrad. the settings are entirely different (ivory trade vs vietnam), but the story is essentially the same, just from a different perspective.
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Oct 21, 05
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Has anyone here read the book "1984" by George Orwell? Its a pretty complex book, far more complex than any movie I have ever watched. Its really interesting, but at the same time kinda confusing. In the book the government appears to have blatant control, merely brainwashing the people into their beliefs: “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five and you would have to believe it.”
There's alot to be learner from this book. Orwell I beleive is trying to predict how the world will be like in 1984, but the book is based in 1948.
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Oct 21, 05
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And, ya, I think the majority of people have read 1984 - it was required reading in grade 12 for me...
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Oct 21, 05
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same idea in that it's about the future, just a slightly different view of it. the world in huxley's book is supposed to be a lot more utopian and less oppressive/fascist.
on the same note, if you like the themes of those books, check out the movie called equilibrium, which i liked a lot but didn't get much media coverage. really underrated, i think. i'd consider it a rip off of both of those books combined, but with good hollywood actors and great effects.
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