Movies or books? Which is better?
Well, this puts me in a bit of a pickle seeing as I enjoy both immensely. I'm the kind of person that watches at least one movie per day, it could be a new one, or I could be rewatching something old. But I always make sure I watch a movie. If not a movie, then I would watch a series. One episode per day, that's the maximum I can allow myself.
There are times when one thing or the other would make me unable to watch movies or series, and as such I might have to resort to social media to entertain myself with movie clips or skits.
That's just how much I enjoy watching movies.
And books, on the other hand, I love them so much. Although, due to the nature of my work, I'm no longer able to read paperbacks as I used to. And that's just because I miss having the feel of the paper between my fingers and just having those images jump right into my head from the pages.
But thanks to e-books I can still read. Although I do more of listening now. Most reading apps now come with audio where the book you want to read will be read to you like music. You can play it on your speaker or use headphones and be listening to a story while you go about your house chores or while you go to work.
But I don't really enjoy this method. It doesn't hit me the way the traditional book does, I guess I have to get on with the times. I do enjoy reading the ebooks, but having it read to me by some computerized voice takes the fun out of it for me.
I try my best though, because no matter what I still have to be reading. That's how I grow.
So, which do I prefer? I'm still finding it difficult to choose.
In books, the authors usually take their time to pass their message across. They have full control over just how long they want to make it, they also get to decide the tone and audience they want. They have full creative freedom over what they can do.
I've read a book of almost 1500 pages, it was a fantasy and magic. And then, we have the Harry Potter series that is quite voluminous as well. Also, there are books that are within 300+ pages. So, every author pushes their story as far as they can go and then put their pen to rest.
It's a different world in the movies. Most of the time the writers are different from the directors and one might have a vision that the other does not. That's why every now and then we hear about creative differences.
It's possible that a writer can give a full story and when it's been shot some key scenes will be missing, or others will be added. We see this all the time when they make movie adaptations of novels.
A lot of things get changed and for some viewers, it can ruin everything for them. Expecting to see one thing and then not finding it at all, and also seeing something that was not even in the book, to begin with.
Apart from all that, we still have issues like executive producers and the major studios. That is the people bringing the money for the movie, making the investments necessary to see it go forward. They also have a say in how it all goes down. They decide the length of the movie, the audience, and basically anything they don't want they can scrap it. After all, they are the money bag.
So you see? As much as a lot goes into making movies, a lot also goes into writing. And for me, one can't replace the other. A movie can be finished in two hours, but a good book would need at least a day from a fast reader. And both of them take a great deal of time to be created and packaged into that which you will pay good money for.
So I love them both. And I'll keep reading and watching movies. They are two things I don't think I'll ever get tired of. Hopefully, one day, I will write a book that will make it into the big screens. But until then, I'll keep doing my thing and enjoying myself.
Thank you for reading. Feel free to drop your thoughts in the comments section below, I would love to know them. See you in the next post.
