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The days spent reading a book are almost impossible to convey in a few hours allowed by a movie. Necessary background on a character, while adding richness to the text often slows down the movie. A book to movie adaptation takes time, effort, and an open mind by the viewer in order to be a box office or critical success. Often times the closer a movie follows the descriptions provided by the original author, the more critics and the general audience will rave about it. A good book will often create vivid images of a character's personality and mannerisms. Even though everyone reads the same words, they will inevitably create a different picture in their minds. Readers will often picture something of themselves in the character. It is harder to create a character everyone sees as themselves, when confronted with a real world image of that person. Especially when a well know actor is used and knowledge of their previous roles and personal life can cloud the character they are currently portraying. Movies bring to a wide audience the vision of a novel shared by a few people. The beauty of this is whether love it, or hate it, it can bring people together in discussing literature, characters, and ideas; which might have otherwise been left on the shelves.

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