Film v Print

A movie is basically a finished work of a book with all the imagery painted nicely for you. A movie can be bad depending on the producer's interpretation of the story, sometimes it surprises you with a good effect, sometimes it surprises you and you found out it sucked, and sometimes it's almost the same imagery you had in mind when you read the story. But the movie could never be the same to the books because no two people has the exact same imagery. Also, a good movie would be short and precise and a good book would be sometimes very vague and other times extremely detailed. In a vague book, the movie can be very different from your imagination because it leaves lots of room for imagination for the reader and the reader would be the producer of the movie. If it is extremely detailed, a good movie would never include all details in the story because first, a movie could just show the scene without using elegant and educated language and second it wouldn't be long enough to include all unimportant complications and other elements. One thing a movie can do is called a Montage. It is a filming technique where it shows a series of short clips or pictures and usually merged with background music to show time, usually a long period of time, passing by and we see all the details through the flashing scenes. A book could not do this because if a book wants to express a passing of time, it would either have to explain them in a way without any sensitive details such as, "as time pass by, blah blah blah" or "He slept, ate, drank and went back to sleep everyday for the next 10 years". Or it could explain each passing of time with extreme care but that would take up too much time and a movie could just flash through it with almost the same quality but but with significantly short amount of time.