 Originally Posted by EvilNed
Movie is, to me, the ultimate cultural medium of expression and if done right, a movie can outdo a book ten times over as far as emotional impact goes.
I agree EvilNed, but the operative phrase is "if done right"
Too many times in the past have good and decently written stories been transformed by some smug hack into crappy scripts and then micromanaged by a bunch of executives in suits who arbritarily award themselves the titles of "Producer" who then proceed to focus group and reinvent the original vision into a piece of crap meant to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Add to that the influence a director has over the way the script is interpreted. Imagine if Boll instead of Romero had done DAWN 78! What a maggoty infested piece of tripe that would have been.
Since I have not yet read the Brook's novel, I am wary about seeing whatever film they end up releasing based on the novel because I fear that it will reduce my enjoyment of the novel. For example, if someone watches Kubrick's "The Shining" first and then proceeds to read the novel, they will have a difficult time divorcing their imagination from Kubrick's own vision. So instead of inventing their own vision of what the main chracters look like, they will tend to automatically see Jack Nicholson as the lead actor, etc. (Don't get me wrong, I did like Kubrick's version, but I only am using it as a point of reference -- don't mean to pick on him) So with WWZ, I fear that IF the producers/directors/editors/actors et al end up making WWZ into Seventh Heaven with zombies I will have a hard time putting this out of my head when I read WWZ, and inevitably a bad movie experience in this realm will effect my enjoyment of what I hear is a pretty righteous zombie novel.
Hollywood tends to make more crappy movies than decent ones, to the point where I consider it a rare event when a decent film comes out of the machine. I don't know, maybe they will make the best zombie film since Dawn of the Dead 78. I certainly hope so!
Your point, however, about the medium not being a problem in and of itself, and that books are inherently different than movies is well stated and well taken and very much correct.
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