You expose more people to the fact that it exists?
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
Arthur talks about "regression to the mean" but like, i don't think Hollywood's mean is a good one. What Hollywood does is a) film crap books, making them no less crap but giving them a wider audience; and b) film great books, inevitably ruining them in the process.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect
I mean if you're inherently anti-Hollywood there's not going to be an argument about any of the decisions they made but I just can't get that bibliophilic about it American Psycho is an amazing movie in part because the lady in charge of it didn't emulate Bret Easton Ellis
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
Yeah, i'm inherently anti-movie, pretty much. And ESPECIALLY anti-Hollywood.
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Replying to @iridienne @Nymphomachy
Movies are inherently better than books It takes many more people to make a movie than a book, which means that movies are overall job creators and stimulate the economy, whereas generally speaking books are not
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Well, yes, if "stimulates the economy" is your main criterion for art, that's … certainly SOMETHING.
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Replying to @iridienne @Nymphomachy
Hey it's an easy concern to dismiss if it's not your job If everyone stopped watching TV and movies and just read books LA would enter a devastating recession
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
*shrug* They could be better at their jobs and i would withdraw my objections.
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But honestly, i don't care that Hollywood continues to EXIST, i just want them to stop making movies out of books i give a shit about.
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Most adaptations are probably of books you've never heard of Like the Oscar-winning screenplay for Jojo Rabbit is from a novel no one read (and those who have read it say the movie barely resembles the book)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Well, if i haven't read it, it is definitely not in the class "books i give a shit about", now, is it?
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