Writing

They are two different art forms, after all.

I would love to take a class, maybe at my junior college, titled "Novel vs Film", the idea being you read the book and you watch the movie and then discuss.

An example of a film that is as good as the book, but in different ways, is "Terms of Endearment". The novel is by Larry McMurtry, whom I quite fond of. His books anyway. But the novel of that name would not have worked if simply filmed as is. The shift of emphasis in the movie from the mother Aurora (played by Shirley MacLaine) to the daughter, Emma (played by Debra Winger) makes the movie much better than it otherwise would have been.