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The Post in Which I RANT ABOUT GODDAMN BOOK-TO-MOVIE ADAPTATIONS

So, you know how, once upon a time, people used to actually sit down and read books? And how they often made up imaginary people in their heads based on detailed character descriptions and how they could picture far-off magical landscapes because authors knew how to spin words? And then one day, someone decided, "Hey! I want to make this book come to life  for all the fans of this book!" And he sat down with the author and hammered out a screenplay and sent it to a director who decided he could do that and he gathered a team of awesome movie makers and they got the actors and the sets and the music and the makeup and all those other little goodies that go into filmmaking and they made a movie based off a book. And at first, all was well. People who read the book saw the movie. They loved it. They recommended it to people who hadn't read the book yet because "It's pretty much the same thing." And the people who hadn't read the book saw the movie and t