Novels-to-Movies

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Hello aruLaracan,

I have read Animal Farm and enjoyed it thoroughly. But I would not dare see the movie version of it.

Ravi Sundaram, you say it perfectly. When you read a novel - especially something descriptive like Thomas Hardy or DH Lawrence, you seep in the story. You get really involved with the charachters, you think about them, you feel for them, you wonder about them and they become your good friends. I've even dreamed about a lot of charachters. And then you see them in the movie and it is such a let down.

First of all, they don't even look like your friends. Second, the movie is so short and you don't get to know them - very impersonal - like it is happening to somebody else. In the book it is all happening to you!

I do agree that the exceptions are science fictions and other "action" stories. John Grisham and the like.