From: "John Beamish" 

A *constant* debate with V (Valerie ;-) ).  I take the position that the
book is the author's telling of the story and the movie is the director's
telling of the story.  One approach works well when the mind is conjuring
up the background images, scene settings and "music" or
"voice".  Those approaches aren't necessarily appropriate for a
visual tale telling so things like "character backgrounders" and
"getting inside the protagonist's thoughts" will invariable lead
to the same story being told in different ways.  V simply wants the movie
of the book.

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:05:00 -0500, Geo.  wrote:

> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:45a95293$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> My problem with V is that they dumbed it down so much that even Alan
>> Moore the creator of the graphic novel asked to be disassociated from
>> the film.
>
> There should be a warning that if you read the book you should not watch
> the movie. I thought HHG sucked because I read the book, everyone else
> seemed to like it though.
>
> Geo.

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