To: JenB
Yes, it's a good story by itself...but if you've read the book, and then go to see that version expecting to see an adaptation of the book, you will be disappointed.
Likewise a student, attempting to write a book report based on the film, would go astray very quickly (unlike LotR, IMHO).
From personal experience, there is value in seeing accurately-adapted films before reading the books when possible. I owe my preadolescent interest in reading The Hobbit to the execrable cartoon thereof.
2,085 posted on
05/13/2004 9:32:15 AM PDT by
ExGeeEye
(Almost every crime against humanity I've seen since 1972 has had the word "Muslim" attached to it.)
To: ExGeeEye; JenB; ksen; g'nad; SuziQ; RosieCotton; HairOfTheDog
Likewise a student, attempting to write a book report based on the film, would go astray very quickly (unlike LotR, IMHO). One option the wife gave on one of her exams was to describe how Lord of the Rings was like an epic tale (when they were studying Beowulf).
One student actually wrote that "You don't see characters reading books in epic tales and you don't see books in Lord of the Rings."
Wife read me that and I started listing the books we saw in LOTR...
2,088 posted on
05/13/2004 9:41:24 AM PDT by
Corin Stormhands
(To be willing to march into Hell, Boston and Chappauqua for a heavenly cause...)
To: ExGeeEye; JenB
From personal experience, there is value in seeing accurately-adapted films before reading the books when possible. I owe my preadolescent interest in reading The Hobbit to the execrable cartoon thereof.Same here, which is why I don't mind the cartoon.
2,139 posted on
05/13/2004 11:00:09 AM PDT by
Fedora
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