{"id":25,"date":"2003-11-02T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2019-01-07T22:11:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T22:11:21","slug":"books-versus-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/02\/books-versus-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Books versus Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My fiance sits on the couch finishing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Return of the King<\/span> as I sit typing at the computer. Having just come from Stephen King&#8217;s web site, having just watched a number of DT inspired short films and having made plans to watch <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Two Towers<\/span> on DVD tonight, I feel the need to reaffirm why I love books tremendously more than movies. Mr. King himself said it better than I can, at least right now, so I will lift what he wrote from the FAQ section of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenking.com\"> site<\/a> in response (it was in response to the question &#8220;Are you going to make a Dark Tower Movie?&#8221;):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always resisted that idea because movies have a way of freezing characters and places in the audience&#8217;s mind whereas in books everybody has their own different idea of, for instance, how Roland or Susannah looks but if you do it as a movie, immediately that kind of gets frozen in place and you say &#8216;Oh, Billy Bob Thornton is what Roland Deschain looks like.&#8217; Or you say &#8216;Brad Pitt, that&#8217;s what Eddie Dean looks like.&#8217; You know what I&#8217;m saying, or you can say &#8216;Calla Bryn Sturgis from Wolves of the Calla looks like maybe the Universal back lot&#8217;, and I&#8217;ve always resisted that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Nuff said for now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fiance sits on the couch finishing Return of the King as I sit typing at the computer. Having just come from Stephen King&#8217;s web site, having just watched a number of DT inspired short films and having made plans to watch The Two Towers on DVD tonight, I feel the need to reaffirm why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[381,422,608,645],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-literature","tag-movies","tag-stephenking","tag-tolkien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3675,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/3675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}