On Literature and Cinema 1

ON CINEMA AND LITERATURE 

Cinema and literature are art forms that are proudly distinct from each other, yet — at least from point of view of moviemaking — inextricably linked; movies, after all, need scripts.

But on an important level, literature needs cinema as well. For ‪one thing, literary writing is becoming simpler; “script-like”. For another, arguably, the sensibility of writers is becoming more and more focused on scene creation … on depicting setpiece situations in which we observe the surface of characters’ actions, this accompanied (sometimes) by the monologue of one character’s interior monologue.

It’s a perfectly fine narrative strategy. But it raises a question: why not acknowledge the obvious? Why not make literary works into “movies”? 

Ex 1: https://youtu.be/GV2sxT5t8yg?si=CKmHhWAoEFA_-TbV

2: https://youtu.be/MPivPuRAyYA?si=7zOeCIzu-4P661T1

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