the concerns of philip k. dick

There are aspects of a story that a movie is better suited to convey than a book, and vice versa. In movies we are able to see lush images without having to construct them ourselves, the characters and setting are there for us to observe without having to imagine anything. Movies utilize quick cuts between scenes and segments, and camera angles and shots that further depict the emotion of a scene. A chase scene in a book will rarely match one in a movie because of the visual nature of a chase. When reading we have to take another step between the words and the processing of their meaning to construct an image of the action taking place. Film eliminates this extra step, at the same time we experience the story, we see it. In a novel, the time we have to our imagination is also the time we have to reflect on the action, so that novels are the more interactive of the two media, creating a synthesis between the two worlds of author and reader, whereas a filmmaker is simply presenting...