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Wonder (2017 Movie) Official Trailer – #ChooseKind – Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson

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Books always seem to get the nod over movies when it comes to the debate regarding which of the two art forms is more adept at telling a story to the audience that is consuming it. The main point argued, which always seems to give the upper hand to books, is the wonderful sense of imagination a book can make you conjure up while reading.

Most people are more comfortable with their own imaginations in order to visualize the progression of the book's narrative. The physical appearance of the characters, the various settings and the atmosphere of the events portrayed in the book all originate from our personal creative vision, and that vision breeds endless possibilities of the depiction of a single scenario in a book, which avid readers would claim is the factor that ultimately makes reading a book more special compared to watching a movie.

And in truth, reading does provide a more novel acuity of the narrative at hand as a whole in comparison to watching a movie. Yet you can't argue that the inventiveness that stems from the depths of our mental corridors, as unique as they are, will always be predictable to our own selves. There is no denying it. Thus, as wildly fantastical and detailed your cognitive ingenuity may be in describing the state of affairs garnered from reading a book, it would never reach the heights of being truly surprising because when we read a book, our imagination limits ourselves from truly grasping a sense of pure wonder and awe of the tale being experienced.

The pure art of storytelling is not to adapt to your comfort zone or to flow smoothly to your ideals and thoughts.

It is meant to enrapture you, to electrify your sense of perception and fascination on everything that you thought you knew and predicted about the story being told. Thus, the best stories are the ones where we would have never have imagined the look, sound and feel of the narrative events. This notion is what I feel makes movies ultimately more engaging than books, as it's unpredictability in telling a narrative always keeps the audience on edge, thus priming their minds for a more natural acquisition of the feelings, beliefs and ideals that is contained in a movie scene on a moment-to-moment basis.

When we read a book or watch a movie, we are escaping from the reality that plagues our minds and diving into a world beyond reality. Reading a book, your own mind predictably imagines the story's events, and since your mind is creating these mental images, there is still a fine thread between the reality you thought you left behind and your imaginations. Watching a movie, however allows you to explore the narrative being told without any predictability of its events, allowing your body, mind and soul to be fully possessed with the pure sensation and amazement that the art of storytelling is meant to achieve.

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Why Movies Are Better Then Books: The Limitation of Imagination

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Books always seem to get the nod over movies when it comes to the debate regarding which of the two art forms is more adept at telling a story to the audience that is consuming it.

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Based on the New York Times bestseller, WONDER tells the inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman. Born with facial differences that, up until now, have prevented him from going to a mainstream school, Auggie becomes the most unlikely of heroes when he enters the local fifth grade.

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It's undeniable that a book original usually blasts its movie version out of the water. But why is that so? Below, six reasons books almost always take the cake. Filmmakers, consider this your cheat sheet for bringing book-based movies more up to snuff. (And while we have your attention, please re-do Bonfire of the Vanities ASAP.)

The Movie Gets Lost In Translation
It's widely known that Stephen King was unhappy with Kubrick's approach to puttingThe Shining on the screen. King disliked Shelly Duvall's weak "scream and run" character and Nicholson's too-rapid descent into insanity, versus book Jack Torrance, who experienced a slower and thus more agonizing loss of his marbles. Without the actual writers sitting by their side, filmmakers are left to play the telephone game on a grand stage. They perceive the author's writing and spin it into their own take. And, as anyone who has frequented a book club or two knows, there are many different ways to interpret a book.

" That's Not How I Pictured It!"
Once a filmmaker decides upon settings and characters, we're limited to seeing those characters and settings through their eyes. However, 500 different readers of the same book may have 500 different ideas of a character's appearance. And if an actor doesn't measure up to what you imagined when reading the book, there's some disappointment. (Remember the ruckus that ensued when theFifty Shades Of Grey cast was revealed? People care!)

Huxley's intro to Brave New World struck hard when I read it, and sticks with me still-probably because he uses a fragment to begin the book. In this opening, I'm fed a "squat grey building of only thirty-four stories" and "harsh thin light" looking for some "pallid shape of academic goose-flesh." I found an awful TV movie of Brave New World from 1980, and its intro imagery didn't come close to Huxley's. (Not like that would have been easy.) There's no squat grey building, no pallid shape of academic goose flesh, no fragment! Give me my book back, thank you very much.

Limited Storytelling Time
Perhaps I missed a "pallid shape of academic goose flesh" in the Brave New World movie because of time constraints. Most movies do their thing in 1.5-3 hours. A book is edited and crafted, but the writer is still working within an unlimited time canvas. This condensing of books into movies leads to deleted parts from the book or abbreviation of developments within the book.

Script Writing May Not Do The Story Justice
While a movie is afforded the power of visual stimulation, it's limited in terms of having to tell a story primarily through dialogue. Making that transition from words to visual representation plus dialogue is not as simple as it seems, particularly when you're dealing with a book that has a lot of inner dialogue, or that gives the reader insight into a character's mind. Short of the Zach Morris look-at-the-camera-while-having-a-side-convo-with-the-audience technique, it's tough for filmmakers to depict the inner workings of a character's mind.

Books Allow The Reader to Put it Together
Some movies are more powerful because they play like books. Film noir and later Alfred Hitchcock did a good job of inference with subtle tension. Of course, Jaws was so effective because you never see the darned shark! Without the power of visuals, books allow readers to put together the story and elements in their mind. Sometimes movies overdo the visuals.

The Book Stays With You
Music has vinyl and writing has books, but movies don't offer a physical object that offers an emotional connection-unless you want to count the campiness of VHS tapes. So, when you're arguing about whether the book or movie was better, you might just be standing up for that old worn-in friend with the creaky binding that lives on a shelf in your bedroom.
Why do you think the book is usually better than the movie? Can you think of any exceptions to the rule?

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6 Reasons The Book Is (Almost Always) Better Than The Movie

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It's undeniable that a book original usually blasts its movie version out of the water. But why is that so? Below, six reasons books almost always take the cake. Filmmakers, consider this your cheat sheet for bringing book-based movies more up to snuff.

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Wonder - Advance Movie Tickets on Sale Now

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Presale tickets on sale now for "Wonder" opening November 17. See it at a Regal Cinema, Edwards, or UA Theatre near you. Pick your theatre, showtime, and buy your tickets online now >>>