Many filmmakers make movies based on books. When a movie is produced based on books, some people prefer to read books before watching films, other people choose to watch the movie first. Which one do you think is better? Why?
Many filmmakers make movies based on books. When a movie is produced based on books, some people prefer to read books before watching films, other people choose to watch the movie first. Which one do you think is better? Why?
By and large, it's established beyond doubt that reading books and watching movies are the major hobbies of the most people. Nowadays, these two hobbies are somehow merged and many filmmakers make movies based on books. Some people prefer to read books before watching films, while others choose to watch the movie first. I firmly assert that reading the book before watching its movie is far better. In the following paragraphs, I will delve into my most prominent reasons for this viewpoint.
The first exquisite point to be mentioned is that when people read a book, they only see some black and white words. Of course, some books occasionally include some pictures through their text, but nothing more. Therefore, they imagine the people in the book, the scenes, the places, etc. only based on their own imagination and creativity. In my opinion, an aspect of enjoying reading a book is this imagination. Authors are aware of this point, so most of them put a lot of effort to describe different things in their books. Sometimes you read several pages of a book just to notice what the place that the following happenings take place looks like and you actually build this place in your mind and complete it as you go on, just like Victor Hugo's books, a well-known French poet and novelist. Hence, I assume watching the movie first can completely ruin this procedure of imagination. When you have already seen a place and know what that place looks like you cannot enjoy the writer's descriptions and undoubtedly you will find them even boring.
Furthermore, another reason which deserves some words here is that for most people the end of the story is so important. For example, if you know the end of a book that your friend is reading and tell him about it, you can really hurt his feelings. He will find reading that book nonsense and boring. Now, when you watch a movie and are aware of the end of the story and all of its details in approximately 2 hours, will you spend days to read the same book? Of course not. No one does it. In fact, the results of a study conducted recently, indicate that 89 percent of people who watch a book-based movie will not read its book later. This obviously means that the people will read books much less and it is an alarm for the society since the more the people of a country spend their time reading, the more that country will gain achievements and get advanced.
As an example, in my own experience, I used to read a series of books named "The series of unfortunate events" written by "Lemoney Snicket" about 10 years ago. There was 13 of that and I really loved them. I think I read each book for more than 10 times, and as I mentioned imagining each scene and each happening was a real pleasure for me. Last year, its TV show was released and I started to watch that as well. It was satisfying too. However, watching this TV show first, reading the books would have never been such a pleasure for me that it was several years ago. Actually, I experienced this fact through my brother who watched the TV show first and couldn't finish even the first book of this series. @aalaeeTOEFLiBT
To put it all in a nutshell, reading books before watching its movie is so much more beneficial. As a matter of fact, most of the time watching the movie first does not lead you to read the book. However, with the growth of movie industry and also the limited time of individuals, it is anticipated that not so far from now people won't bother to read any books since they can watch it in much less time.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, really, so, therefore, well, while, for example, i think, in fact, of course, you know, as a matter of fact, by and large, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 13.8261648746 166% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 11.0286738351 209% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 83.0 43.0788530466 193% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 52.1666666667 138% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3111.0 1977.66487455 157% => OK
No of words: 680.0 407.700716846 167% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.575 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.10654576214 4.48103885553 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42096478738 2.67179642975 91% => OK
Unique words: 298.0 212.727598566 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.438235294118 0.524837075471 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 936.9 618.680645161 151% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 9.59856630824 167% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 35.0 20.6003584229 170% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.5963150749 48.9658058833 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.8857142857 100.406767564 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4285714286 20.6045352989 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 5.45110844103 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.53405017921 132% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.88709677419 246% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.52645105163 0.236089414692 223% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.149375447518 0.076458572812 195% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.164799286849 0.0737576698707 223% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.39049393578 0.150856017488 259% => Maybe some contents are duplicated.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.298161274985 0.0645574589148 462% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 11.7677419355 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 58.1214874552 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.1575268817 82% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.28 10.9000537634 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.95 8.01818996416 87% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 86.8835125448 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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