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Raynor -- yes Yes YES a hundred times yes. Yes you are handicapped by knowledge..... if that knowledge of the books has the following effects on your ability to sit and enjoy the films ............
if you do not know the difference between a book and a film
if you refuse to accept the difference between a book and a film
if you refuse to accept the different elements and constructs of the two different mediums
if you refuse to accept the constraints and limitations of the mediums as they compare to each other
That is a huge handicap that some have here that prevents them from performing the most simple task ---- accepting something for what it is and not what it is not.
In addition, yes, voluminous knowledge of the books is indeed a handicap in enjoying the films IF it results in
you sitting before the screen making comments to yourself "the book was not like that".... or "that did not happen in the books"..... or "the wrong character is speaking those lines"..... or "what happened to my favorite character of _______" .... or "they combined several events together" ..... or "they left out some stuff" .... or any one of ten thousand other objections that basically mean "when I compare the medium of the book to the different medium of the movies, they end up different". As they say these days.. "DUH?"
Like Robert deNiro said in THE DEERHUNTER. "This is this. This isn't something else. This is this."
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