Breakfast at Tiffany's

[miriam_e]

I read Breakfast at Tiffany's today.
What an amazing story!

The movie, though beautiful is, of course, a pale shadow of Truman Capote's tantalising bittersweet story.

I love to read such brilliant works, but I hate the way they make me realise what a hopeless artist I am. [sigh]

Comments

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

It is an interesting effect isn't it.

I've heard a number of people say that it is a bad thing, but I don't think so. The Capote movie alerted me to the book Breakfast at Tiffany's and the fact that I was interested in reading the story because of my enjoyment of the Breakfast at Tiffany's movie. This is a case of movie culture feeding back into literature. Likewise I've heard many people say that kids who would never have otherwise picked up a book to read have consumed the Harry Potter series.

As you say, the movies are able to excite people intensely enough to generate a fan subculture that books alone aren't able to.

I wonder what will happen when visual storytelling media go through the next level of democratisation with machinima. Everybody will be able to make the equivalent of feature films because it will cost very, very little. Strange, exciting times we are entering.

[gothxxangel.livejournal.com]

That's a good point you made about movie culture feeding back into books, I guess this is happening with "Howl's Moving Castle" as a lot of people are reading the books to catch up with the places the movie glossed over or left out entirely--part of the drawback of translating to screen, I guess.

In non-English speaking countries, pretty much the only English books available are movie-linked ones, unfortunately I've already read most of them. True, you can't deny the exposure movies bring.

Conversely, with the whole HP phenomenon, the books themselves were so popular that I belive the movies actually stopped some people from reading them.