“Films can bring whole world to life before our eyes, make characters into living, breathing flesh and blood, but books let you LIVE everything”
Films are amazing. They bring words to life right in front of your very eyes. They turn fictional characters, “people” who were just imagined by an author turn into living, breathing humans. Or wizards and muggles in the case of Harry Potter.
But books. Books are amazing pieces of paper where you can fantasize about anything you want. You can imagine what characters look like, what the surrounding look like just for yourself and nobody else. Personally, I think books are much better then movies. Directors often miss out things in the movie of books, which I find very annoying because they are supposed to be following the ideas in the book, not twist them around for the movie.
For example, in the Hunger Games:
~Haymitch Abernathy does not fall of the stage because he was drunk during the reaping ceremony.
~Katniss does not get her Mockingjay pin from Madge Undersee, she buys it at the Hob.
~When Rue was murdered and Katniss buried her in flowers, District 11 did not send her the bread as thanks for helping Rue.
Did nobody else notice that the cat was black and white instead of ginger? Were no ginger cats available? In a book, I think you can get a sense of what a characters personality is like. You get to experience their thoughts and feelings and pretend that you are them. When you see a movie, you actually see somebody in that role so you cannot put yourself inside the role.
Books also improve your English skills. You can pick up new words and phrases, finding out the meaning of them to use in your own work. Also, today’s teenagers use and abbreviation of the English language. They like to use words like “lol”. Without books, we would have lost the English language because we would have nothing to look back on!
A survey on Debate.org showed that 57% of the people that took the survey agreed that books were better than movies. I decided to ask my tutor group whether they prefer books or movies. Here are my results:
Some movies have actually been very good for the books. For example, The Fault In Our Stars (TFIOS) was practically unheard off before it was turned into a movie. Because of all our publicity and reviews people started buying the book as well. The author, John Green, has had a massive increase of popularity of his books since TFIOS was realised as a film. It also broke many of our hearts watching it!
Movies can also be a very good option for people with disabilities. They may find reading hard so the resolve to the movie. For cases like this, movies are great because people can have a better understanding of the movie. But some people just watch the movies because they can’t be bothered to read the book.
Overall, I think it is a tie because both are sides brilliant. Books have what movies don’t and movies have what books don’t.
Emily
Films are amazing. They bring words to life right in front of your very eyes. They turn fictional characters, “people” who were just imagined by an author turn into living, breathing humans. Or wizards and muggles in the case of Harry Potter.
But books. Books are amazing pieces of paper where you can fantasize about anything you want. You can imagine what characters look like, what the surrounding look like just for yourself and nobody else. Personally, I think books are much better then movies. Directors often miss out things in the movie of books, which I find very annoying because they are supposed to be following the ideas in the book, not twist them around for the movie.
For example, in the Hunger Games:
~Haymitch Abernathy does not fall of the stage because he was drunk during the reaping ceremony.
~Katniss does not get her Mockingjay pin from Madge Undersee, she buys it at the Hob.
~When Rue was murdered and Katniss buried her in flowers, District 11 did not send her the bread as thanks for helping Rue.
Did nobody else notice that the cat was black and white instead of ginger? Were no ginger cats available? In a book, I think you can get a sense of what a characters personality is like. You get to experience their thoughts and feelings and pretend that you are them. When you see a movie, you actually see somebody in that role so you cannot put yourself inside the role.
Books also improve your English skills. You can pick up new words and phrases, finding out the meaning of them to use in your own work. Also, today’s teenagers use and abbreviation of the English language. They like to use words like “lol”. Without books, we would have lost the English language because we would have nothing to look back on!
A survey on Debate.org showed that 57% of the people that took the survey agreed that books were better than movies. I decided to ask my tutor group whether they prefer books or movies. Here are my results:
Some movies have actually been very good for the books. For example, The Fault In Our Stars (TFIOS) was practically unheard off before it was turned into a movie. Because of all our publicity and reviews people started buying the book as well. The author, John Green, has had a massive increase of popularity of his books since TFIOS was realised as a film. It also broke many of our hearts watching it!
Movies can also be a very good option for people with disabilities. They may find reading hard so the resolve to the movie. For cases like this, movies are great because people can have a better understanding of the movie. But some people just watch the movies because they can’t be bothered to read the book.
Overall, I think it is a tie because both are sides brilliant. Books have what movies don’t and movies have what books don’t.
Emily