Jun 7: Watch the movie or read the book? Real or reel.

A useful article by Stuart Aitken, from San Diego University, shared on ResearchGate.

Stuart Aitken and Leo Zonn were the first to question the relationship between the “real,” off-screen world, and the “reel” on-screen world that has since become a primary thrust in many subsequent research agendas.

It explores the link between film and books in the representation of the world.

There's a useful David Attenborough quote

. . . there is precious little that is natural, in that [wild] sense, in any film. You distort speed if you want to show things like plants growing, or look in detail at the way an animal moves. You distort light levels. You distort distribution, in the sense that you see dozens of different species in a jungle in a few minutes, so that the place seems to be teeming with life . . . . What the filmmaker is trying to do is to convey a particular experience in as vivid a way as he can. . . . 

Reference

Aitken, Stuart. (1994). I'd rather watch the movie than read the book. Journal of Geography in Higher Education - J GEOGR HIGHER EDUC. 18. 291-307. 10.1080/03098269408709269

Which films have you seen which were 'better' than the book?