We're really passing each other like ships in the night, here. I too consider myself to have little visual imagination, and I don't think visually (instead, I think spatially), but the result of that is that the spectacle aspect of films is what I least respond to in them. I treat them as stories, just like books, only told in dramatic form, which, the speed of its flow not being under the control of the reader, I feel more as if it's grabbing me.
I'm not sure if you're saying that the different "feel" of the books and the movies enabled you to keep them separate in your mind. I try to do that now, of course - I favor treating Jackson's movies as entirely unconnected with Tolkien's books, and the newest one has been a great boost to that argument - but, as a kid, I found this gap to be absolutely disconcerting. To keep it from getting even longer, I left out mention of the two other strongest cases of my childhood where a movie made me unable to appreciate the book: Peter Pan and Oliver Twist.
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Date: 2013-12-17 04:58 pm (UTC)I'm not sure if you're saying that the different "feel" of the books and the movies enabled you to keep them separate in your mind. I try to do that now, of course - I favor treating Jackson's movies as entirely unconnected with Tolkien's books, and the newest one has been a great boost to that argument - but, as a kid, I found this gap to be absolutely disconcerting. To keep it from getting even longer, I left out mention of the two other strongest cases of my childhood where a movie made me unable to appreciate the book: Peter Pan and Oliver Twist.