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Which is better Movies or Books?
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This is exactly what I wanted to say.

the books , you picture bella pretty not ugly like she is in the movie and also edward is cute in your mind while you read the you see the movie! total disapointment




Bella's an introspective character. Most of her personality is reflected through her thoughts, like when she wanted to run Edward over with her can, or when she thinks things like "Stupid, shiny Volvo owner."
Watching an introspective character thinking witty remarks on screen is not very fun at all.

Bella's an introspective character. Most of her personality is reflecte..."
yea , kinda a hoe statement of bella



The movies weakness, well for one they run off the notion that the audience read the books so there are logical leaps in the movie that are explained in the books that make it slightly harder for a casual viewer to follow.
The other thing is Bella herself — she doesn't translate well to screen. Everyone complains about KS performance as Bella as being bland, awkward and lacking in personality, but here's the thing, that characterization is spot on with book Bella because once you take the filter in which you see her in your head you realize she is bland, boring and personalityless because she's purposely written like that so everyone can put themselves in her place. That unfortunately translates exactly to KS performance as Bella on screen. Same goes for RP as Edward, once you take off Bella's rose-tinted glasses you realize he's a creeper who stalks a 17 year-old girl with no survival instincts. So that's where the book wins with perception — the book is in first person which limits a lot of what can be seen (although SM does violate this a lot with Bella being impossibly perceptive and often times clairvoyant with her dreams), but it offers the advantage of making things seem nicer than they actually are which is pulled away when we step in to third person with the films.


Well yes each medium has it's strength, and its purpose. Movies are supposed to show you a story, they occasionally have voice over that tell you, but the best ones always show. Which is the challenge most movies based on books fail at because books tells you a story, they show you things as well but mostly tell and the reader's imagination is meant to fill in the gaps and as I said with Twilight it's strength and what makes it better is that it tells you a rose tinted fairytale that no movie could quite capture because a) the subject matter b) perspective and c) realism. There's not much realism in Twilight which it kind of depends on (especially if SM is basing things off of science, not her real strong suit) that a live action movie based on the real world basically shines a light on. The movies kind of messed up the image of Twilight because it's now seen through someone else's perspective instead your own that you saw as you read.
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