Author i am legend7/7/2023 ![]() The book is important historically, though without the 2007 adaptation starring Will Smith, contemporary readers wouldn’t bump into it in an airport bookstore. ![]() With I Am Legend we have an intriguing opportunity to compare book and film. My solution to go around the problem- I got in a bit of trouble here-doesn’t take away from the fact that I think the books are far better than the films, even if I am a big fan of the LOTR trilogy on screen. The arguments around Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth adaptations, where there is both heat and light, shows a number of dividing lines. Some people, of course, never feel a film shows fidelity to the original author. I am both a book-lover and a film buff, so I am open to the idea that a film might be better than the book. Someone mentioned The Princess Bride to me lately, and I agree that the film has it hands down. It is rare that I hear a true book-lover say that the film was better than the book, but I’m sure we can find exceptions. “The film adaptation was not faithful to the book.”. ![]() Can a film be better than the book? It depends on how we define “better,” but book-lovers tend to say two sorts of things about adaptations: ![]()
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