![]() ![]() Hinton gives young readers when they claim they didn’t understand Rumble Fish. “Read it again when you’re twenty-five, about one in the morning, on your third whiskey.” This is the advice S.E. “If you’re going to lead people, you have to have somewhere to go.” In the process, I hope to unveil how these two vastly different mediums work together to tell the same story, from cover to credits. In this column, I’ll be checking out old and new adaptations to further explore both sides of that experience. As a lifelong bookworm and cinephile, I've discovered that whether I read the book before or after seeing the movie can have a profound influence on my enjoyment of the story across both mediums. While we've all uttered some version of this sentiment at one point or another, there have been those rare occasions when the opposite is true. ![]() ![]() "Don't judge a book by its movie" is another common jab. "The book was better" is a phrase heard often in conversations about book-to-film adaptations. ![]()
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