juhjuh wrote:Many great books also have just 200 or pages but super Deep charakters like "never let me go". I dont think you need 20 houers of film to get a Deep and moving story. Fantasy Storys are longer by there nature so its not really surprising for lotr or game of thrones to be longer then a standart movie.
It's much easier, takes much less "screen time" to build characters in books because you can express their thoughts.
I dont think you need 20 houers of film to get a Deep and moving story.
You don't
need it, but the time constraints are quite limiting in what kind of story you can tell and how you can tell it. In my experience, character development is the first thing that gets axed. And it's understandable. Say you're a movie editor and you have 3 hours of film, and you have to condense it to 2 hours. The first thing you cut is scenes that deepen your characters rather than develop your plot, because if you cut plot development then your story doesn't make sense. Characters making sense is understandably viewed as less important.
But my point was never that it's impossible to have believable and proportionately developed characters in movies. Just that it's more rare, and not as rewarding to watch for me. If I care about the characters, I'd prefer to see them interact with each other and the world for more than an hour and a half. And if I were a screenplay writer wanting to tell a character-based story I would certainly turn to TV. Because why limit yourself?
It's no surprise, therefore, that the best character-based dramas are found on TV these days.