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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
For a lot of genres I think tv/movies are routinely superior to books if done well. For many people it is such an article of snobby faith that the book is always better that they never even pause to consider this seriously. I think the screen medium matured with the James Bond franchise, which was the first to be generally better than the books. Same with Alistair MacLean books. You really have to fuck up to make an action story worse on screen. Other examples: Harry Potter, the David Suchet Poirots (most of them), LOTR, Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes (except last few seasons when he was ill). Controversial example: Foundation The genre which does really badly on screen is textual humor. Fry/Laurie came closest but P. G. Wodehouse has never quite been done well. Nobody has cracked HHG or Dirk Gently though it started out as a Doctor Who script idea and radio performance.
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Paul Millerd
@pmillerd
Randomly all places in Japan but I felt shogun pachinko and Tokyo vice were all better than the books
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Tom Beck
@tombeck.eth
Jurassic Park, The Godfather, Jaws, and The Shining are also good examples of movie being clearly better than the book. I agree that written mediums need to differentiate from visual mediums by leaning into the unique effects afforded by that medium. Too many bad books today are bad precisely because they do little than describe scenes as if they were already in a movie.
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Shiva Murugan
@msp
"if done well" carrying a lot of weight here tho
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feeei.eth
@feeei
agree, it does take someone w sophisticated vision to successfully adapt it to the new medium That said I read the book and actually loved the Dirk Gently series on Netflix too, for different reasons Never laughed so much in my life. deeply saddened it got discontinued
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