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The book club rule I followed for 5 years was backwards
I used to always read the book first, then watch the movie adaptation, thinking that was the only right way. Last month my group picked Where the Crawdads Sing and one member watched the film first, then read the book, and her take on the marsh scenes was way deeper than mine. That flipped a switch for me, now I wonder if I've been missing out on how visual details shape the reading experience. Has anyone else tried movie-first with a club pick and got more out of the discussion?
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karen27515d ago
Oh wow this is such a good point! My club did this with The Help a couple years ago and the two people who saw the movie first kept bringing up how the food scenes and the houses looked, stuff I totally skipped over in my head while reading. I was so stuck on the plot that I missed how much the setting was doing for the story. Then last fall we tried it the other way with Little Women, movie first on purpose, and the talk was so much better because we all had the same pictures in our heads going in. It made me realize reading first is not some sacred rule, it just makes you lock in your own version before anyone else can add to it. Now I honestly want to flip it for every pick, it feels like getting two versions of the story instead of one.
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