Hmmm...I'd argue with this one, because literature isn't just a screenplay. The written word can get into people's heads in ways that don't translate into "movie" form. Yes, the words can translate into visual images, but there can be effects from the structure of the words themselves. A substack author wrote an article about it:
Certainly when I read fiction there's a kinda movie playing in my head. The SFX budget being unlimited its often MUCH better than the actual movie version. Non-fiction is a bit different. It's more like a documentary with the author doing the 'voice over'.
Of course, thinking about it a bit more, one great thing that books can do MUCH better than movies is allowing the reader to 'live' inside another character for the length of time you're reading. I think there's been multiple studies that reading fiction increases people's empathy levels probably because of this aspect.
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Hmmm...I'd argue with this one, because literature isn't just a screenplay. The written word can get into people's heads in ways that don't translate into "movie" form. Yes, the words can translate into visual images, but there can be effects from the structure of the words themselves. A substack author wrote an article about it:
https://countercraft.substack.com/p/turning-off-the-tv-in-your-mind
Honestly, after I read that I realized how guilty I was of it in my own attempts at short fiction.
Certainly when I read fiction there's a kinda movie playing in my head. The SFX budget being unlimited its often MUCH better than the actual movie version. Non-fiction is a bit different. It's more like a documentary with the author doing the 'voice over'.
Of course, thinking about it a bit more, one great thing that books can do MUCH better than movies is allowing the reader to 'live' inside another character for the length of time you're reading. I think there's been multiple studies that reading fiction increases people's empathy levels probably because of this aspect.
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