How do you exactly define the difference between these two things
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Replying to @adrienneleigh
Movies are a different medium from text and do different things If you think the purpose of a movie is just to translate dialogue and narration into a visual format then obviously all movie adaptations will be bad
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Replying to @adrienneleigh
Well, it's not like the movie gets rid of the original book in any way Besides, if we're going to argue like that, how many novelizations of films supersede the film, or are seen as any good at all
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Replying to @adrienneleigh
No I'm saying *novelizations*, where the movie came first and then they also commissioned a novel based on the screenplay to lengthen their profit curve
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The only novelization I can even think of that was notable right now was Asimov doing the novelization for Fantastic Voyage (and even then he didn't like it and ended up doing a sequel/reimagining, Destination Brain)
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Well, I read the novelization for Revenge of the Sith, that was pretty good
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That's just it, ALL adaptations, by nature, have a chance of just being a cheap attempt to ride the original's coattails But because movies are more expensive to make than books, only some film adaptations are this way while almost all novelizations are
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