Why are all the best films based on books? Is film an inferior

but the best films aren't based on books. what are you even talking about, man?

>>82606366
Yes.

>>82606408
Go ahead and name what you think are some of the best films.

>>82606667
the burden of proof lies on the accuser

>>82606917
which would be the person he's responding to. no one on this fucking site knows what burden of proof means.

>>82606917
In other words: I'm right and you're wrong.

>>82607158
>>82607173
read the OP retards
I'm not the guy he responded to btw

Reading a book forces you to construct an entire universe in your head. You get the important bits and fill in the blanks with your imagination.

Watching a movie is a very passive experience by comparison, you might try to figure out a plot before it's revealed but you're essentially just copying images and pasting them into your memory.

All that said, reading fucking sucks.

>>82606667
The generally calle best movies of all time

Godfather
Psycho
Clockwork Orange
2001
Apocalypse Now
Raging Bull
Gone Girl
Departed
Third Man
Schindler's List
Pianist
2001
Once Upon a time in America
Casino
One Flew Over The Cucko's Nest
Silence of the Lambs
Shawshank Redemption

I know not all of them would enter in a top 20 movies of all time but those are pretty good

>>82606667

>Avventura, L'
1960
Michelangelo Antonioni

>Intolerance
1916
D.W. Griffith

>Jules et Jim
1962
François Truffaut

>Lawrence of Arabia
1962
David Lean

>Lola
1961
Jacques Demy

>Magnificent Ambersons, The
1942
Orson Welles

>Nashville
1975
Robert Altman

>Nouvelle Vague
1990
Jean-Luc Godard

>Passion of Joan of Arc
1927
Carl Theodor Dreyer

>Sansho Dayu
1954
Mizoguchi Kenji

film is the most pure art

>>82607293
>>82607306
Might as well just kill yourself right now my man

File: 1494395974669.jpg (50KB, 728x728px) Image search: [Google]

50KB, 728x728px

>>82607334
good refutation my man

>>82607293
>clockwork garbage
>not shit

The Shining
King is a hack, whereas Kubrick isnt

File: 81a3oM3EcfL.jpg (452KB, 1871x2560px) Image search: [Google]

452KB, 1871x2560px

> movie fags will never EVER get an adaptation of the best book on the 20th century

>>82607293
>tfw i could care less about everything on that list
>>82607306
>tfw same for this list

>>82607435
Then what you call a best movie of all time? Raiders of the Lost ark?

>>82607378
Did you even read the OP?

Silence of the Lambs is probably the best successful adaptation of a book that remained faithful to the book without changing much.

>>82607484
I have no Salisbury steak in this argument

>>82606667
Batman v Superman

Comic books > Gay ass novels

>>82606366
Film is unironically the highest form of art.
It actually contains all the other art forms in all the filmmaking elements, from fashion, architecture, design to music, photography, the writing and performances.

With film, you can express your idea in just one single frame through framing and composition, the performance, production design, sound
etc, while in books you have to use multiple sentences just to set up the scene and for the viewer to grasp what's happening. Reading linear words is not efficient and it relies too much on the readers imagination, film is just much more efficient.

Now that doesn't mean everyone uses the medium to it's maximum potential, but it has a far greater potential than any other art form.

>>82606366
>Is film an inferior form of media to books?

Yes. The best movie in the world would be better as a well written book.

>>82607293
Literally most, if not all, of these are either based on books or real life events.

>>82607306
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting. Armond is a hack.

>>82607306
>>Lola
>1961
>Jacques Demy

Yes, wow. Not that it's a terribly unknown film, but it's the first time i've seen it mentioned on this board. Love all of Demy's work mostly, but this will always be my favorite, a slight, sweet, unassuming film, that's just so beautifully done.

>>82607570
what do real life events have to do with anything you faggot

>>82607586
It means that the film is not original.

>>82607389
Cinema is more rooted in theatre and painting.
You're just outing yourself as an anti-intellectual pseud by disregarding one of the arts.

>>82607617
blow it out your ass, retard

>>82607617
Bait or not this is one retarded ass post