/lit/ - Literature

With movies its so much fucking easier to see if a scene "works," if it has that magic factor that gives you that tingle, like how some people say Tarantino's movies don't have a plot and how they're just sequences of really fucking good scenes strung together. And because movies are so passive, even literal retards who haven't seen lots of other movies and are therefore not familiar with the language of film can still tell when a scene lands just perfectly, even if they can't articulate why. With books, first of all they take so much more effort to consoom (even a complex movie can be consumed once in three or four hours per rewatch, books usually take four times as long per reread, and somebody can still passively watch a film even if they;re not understanding anything they still see and hear it, but with a book they're just passing their eyes over the words and so even on a basic level they aren't mentally registering anything whatsoever) so its much harder for people to become familiar with the language of fiction and therefore much harder for people to craft and recognize those magic scenes that just work perfectly. When was the last time you got that tingle from a scene in a book and wanted to jump out of your seat? When was the last time that happened, but from a movie?