Compare And Contrast The Great Gatsby Movie Vs Book

The most popular movies are often based off of successful best seller books. When books become very popular they are often turned into a movie. Movie producers can predict by the success of book sales if a movie is worth creating. Readers spend their money on books to commit time into reading it, similarly to a movie audience. The movie audience spends their money on the ticket to watch the movie. Readers are likely to spend the money and time to watch a movie if they have read the book. I agree with the statement that movie-audience relationship has more in common with that of book than with that of television because if a certain type of audience is reading a book, that same audience is most likely going to watch the movie created from that book.
Most people who watch television watch it for two reasons, information such as the news or documentaries and mindless shows to waste time not thinking about anything else. While reading you are using your imagination and your brain to engage yourself into the book and think of the scenarios in real life. In television it is shown to you and there is not much room for imagination. Once you start a movie you are committing yourself to
From experience I really enjoyed reading the book The Great Gatsby. I had many images in my head that I thought the movie would portray in a certain way. While watching the movie I was disappointed. Although some scenes were similar to the way I had imagined, they also left some parts out. Most of the audience at the movies had read the book and knew what the story line was before entering into the movies. After talking to people who had read the book their reactions were similar to mine. I believe that the audience in the movie theater has much more in common to the readers of the book rather than the audience to television, mostly for the commitment to stay engaged until the