User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Official "The Sea of Monsters (movie)" Discussion/@comment-6266020-20130406145110/@comment-3323804-20130407194707

It's not how bad directors think, it's how logical directors think. Movies cost a lot to produce with cameras, actors, props, costumes, traveling, sets, etc. Including every line, every detail, and every unimportant scene would make the expenditures out weight the profit margin. If they included every word mentioned in say The Hunger Games or Harry Potter, it'd drag on for hours upon hours, very few people would want to sit and watch an eight hour movie, and honestly it would get boring. Movies are in essence much easier to understand than books. If they had a movie on Canterbury Tales (there is an Italian version actually), and you had an experiment with people on reading straight through Canterbury tales and viewing how much they understood it compared to those who watched the movie straight through, you'd see how different the two groups would understand it. Now, it does depend on the quality of the movie and how it follows the book, but it's easier to see the larger picture in movies than it is with books sometimes, if I dare say most of the time.