Like, I feel like, books, its just a bunch of description that never truely paint a scene.

In a movie or TV show, you see exactly what the scene is, exactly what is happening. I mean, of course, sometime they cut corners and cut of parts of a book, but otherwise, its more easily conveyed.

Like the popular saying, a picture is worth a thousands words. But I’d say: a video is worth a million pictures.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    For the most part, yes. By design. Conveying something in a movie is more challenging in that it has less time to do it than a book has less time to do it. So it HAS to be, to some degree, more blunt and on-the-nose than a book can take its time being.

    You can write five pages of internal description discussing what your main character thinks about the world around them. But you can’t show that in a movie and so you have to figure out how to get the gist of it across in a few lines of dialogue and some emoting.

    It’s why show don’t tell is a rule. You have to simplify a movie in comparison to a book or else your audience will be sitting through a ten hour film.