Q&A: What is an author’s purpose for writing a book versus a directors purpose when making a movie?
Question by Love Me For Me: What is an author’s purpose for writing a book versus a directors purpose when making a movie?
Like a directors purpose is to please all viewers in general so that’s how the whole movie’s purpose will be to satisfy everyone’s tastes. Like nowadays movies have more violence and sex because people want that and the language isn’t deep so everyone can understand. While an author’s purpose is to……………?
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Answer by RunningBear
I think you’re trying to make this rather too simplistic.
A film director’s purpose is to make a great film. An author’s purpose is to write a great novel. The two are entirely different media. A novel tells a story in its own time in the author’s own ‘voice’, allowing the reader to imagine a lot of the elements for him/herself. A film must tell a story in a fixed amount of time and must be visually and audibly appealing.
Personally I’d disagree that movies have more violence and sex and the language isn’t as deep. There are sexy, violent and simple-language novels, and there are movies with no sex or violence and with complex stories, emotions and language.
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