An interesting thing about the "book vs. movie" debate is that it only happens in a very narrow set of cases that isn't illustrative of any larger point. E.g. nobody ever talks about if "Die Hard" is better than Roderick Thorp's novel "Nothing Lasts Forever." https://twitter.com/MommaUnfiltered/status/1300468848685187072

"The Godfather," "Vertigo," "Gone with the Wind," "It's a Wonderful Life," "Casablanca," plenty of all-time-great movies based on possibly-not-all-time-great books. Never really included, possibly because they aren't considered famous enough as books?

And also nobody really talks about e.g. the 1990 movie version of "The Handmaid's Tale" vs. the book. As if these examples all just "don't count" in this narrow band of books/movies we're talking about for some unexplained reason.

We only ever compare certain acceptable examples, so the debate is about a very narrow band of merit. Which I find illustrative in any conversation about the relative merits of two already-almost-indistinguishable groups (like maybe in American politics?)

Also this isn't about this thread specifically! Just some stray thoughts about the way we debate things On Here / These Days / etc.