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When you read a novel, do you just read the words or do you play a film in your head?

Can everyone play the film in their head, or does it take a sharp brain to be able to do this well, seeing as you are reading the words and in the same nanosecond, you can see your film and hear the characters act and speak their lines?
 
Depends really. If you're really into it and read continuously for several hours then absolutely can see, hear, taste and feel it. If however I'm reading a masterpiece then I get the 'film' but I am more sensitive to the words on the page and will often pick up on the words and on any individual lines or sentences which amaze me.
 
I find as soon as I start reading a character, an instant mental image arises. I am reading a novel at the moment and I can just see Mark Strong as the lead character.
 
I envision it like a film, always.

If a book is ever made into a film it always disappoints, that is apart from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Absolutely perfect envisionment of an amazing book.
 
Yup, just imagine the scene.. the characters... everything.

If for example I have seen the first film from a series, and then read the remainder of the books, I will play out the books in the same style and with the same characters as the first film.
 
I imagine everybody paints a mental picture.

This is why many of us are disappointed when a book is made into a film. It's difficult to trump our imagination.
 
I suppose that's what I like about reading. We can all have our perfect Oscar winning films. And seeing as they are in our head, we can take them places even the most portable of tablets cant reach.
 
I showed my mum my new kindle and when I told her you can only read on it, she seemed surprised. But that's all I want to do on a kindle. I would just get distracted otherwise with other stuff.
 
You let your imagination paint a picture which more often than not enables one to immerse oneself completely in the story. You can of course also enjoy the style of the writing which can bring the written word to life. Life without books would be so drab.
 
PapaLazaru said:
Too many glaring errors which lost it for me. The books are far darker. Where the deuce was Tom Bombadil?
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They obviously couldnt add everything from the books and had to change a lot to fit them into 3 films when each book could have been two or even 3 films.

Anyway i couldnt read lotr just seemed to get lost and have to repeat read everything but strange enough i could read the hobbit... maybe i just have a childs mind :p.
 
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