Just Some Ramblings

It seems to me that the only time art translates between mediums well is when the translation is from a book to a movie..  Take into account the Godfather, Jaws, No Country for Old Men, (the list could fill this entire blog).  This translation makes sense, a book paints a picture in your head, some rich person believes their picture to be the right one, and a movie is made based on that persons own personal take on the story.  The reason this transition works so well, is because books that have movies based on them usually have vast amounts of detail put into their stories.  So much detail that if the director were to put all that detail into the film, it would be N times as long which cannot happen.  This is because the average viewer can only sit for so long before becoming bored of whatever is in front of them, no matter how interesting the material.  With books this isn't a problem, as you can put them down and do something else, but watching a movie is done in one sitting.  Thus, the director chooses the details that spoke to him/her/it, and turns them into a movie.  Which is the reason for the phrase, "the book is always better than the movie", because the book feels more invested in the world than the movie itself, because the movie only represents parts of the book.  This doesn't work so well the other way around, you don't hear much of books based on movies sweeping the nation.  The movie doesn't have enough extra detail to it for a proper book to be made.  There are many books made based on the star wars movie, do i know the name of any, or care to figure it out, not at all, because what attracted me to star wars were the original movies.  The books made based on these movies are full of details from the mind of the author, and their thoughts alone.  This makes them incapable of capturing the feeling the director put into the movie, as they don.t have the directors thoughts.  Also, movies are made to be visually pleasing, and to show you a world you thought only existed in books.  To put that world back into a book would be wrong.  Also, books require imagination, and a lot of people lack that.