Haha, I'm open to that. A friend is currently giving me holy hell for reading Dante's Inferno -- in graphic novel format. (Life's short and I'm a slow reader...)
No film, however great, can possibly be comparable to reading an author's own words. Those chosen, and, equally vital, those left out.
I think the film of Sense and Sensibility, for example, has done a finer job with her story than Jane Austen herself did - but, even so, watching the film is not reading the novel. Can't be, by the differing natures of the media.
It is true that the media influences the message. Actually, IMHO, the movie is better. Unless youтАЩve been in the middle of an airport as a squadron takes off, itтАЩs hard to sense the dust and chaos contrast while Yossarian calmly complains. The insanity of the contrast is wonderful. Talking business calmly while others die on the runway. The impact of a guy cut in half and the long bordello lines is also hard to describe, but thats just me.
I'm going to need at least a month's notice for "Catch-22." Its length has always discouraged me from reading it...
Watch the movie instead
Haha, I'm open to that. A friend is currently giving me holy hell for reading Dante's Inferno -- in graphic novel format. (Life's short and I'm a slow reader...)
I love the movie (many don't but come on, the cast alone makes it mandatory viewing) but the book should be read too.
The Slaughterhouse Five movie is really great too. Can't beat the 70s for film.
Catch-22 is free on Kanopy, the site that is accessed with a local library card, as well as many other classics.
Yeah for Kanopy!
No film, however great, can possibly be comparable to reading an author's own words. Those chosen, and, equally vital, those left out.
I think the film of Sense and Sensibility, for example, has done a finer job with her story than Jane Austen herself did - but, even so, watching the film is not reading the novel. Can't be, by the differing natures of the media.
It is true that the media influences the message. Actually, IMHO, the movie is better. Unless youтАЩve been in the middle of an airport as a squadron takes off, itтАЩs hard to sense the dust and chaos contrast while Yossarian calmly complains. The insanity of the contrast is wonderful. Talking business calmly while others die on the runway. The impact of a guy cut in half and the long bordello lines is also hard to describe, but thats just me.
Is that your complete thought?
No, just fat fingers in cold Moscow
Sounds great! IтАЩll be there Monday and Friday!