Charlotte’s Web
Jul 25th, 2007 by Amanda
This was my favorite book as a kid, so I’ve been wanting to see the movie that was released last year for some time. I just finished it. It was good, but not nearly as good as the book. It was hard for me to watch this movie because I’m deathly afraid of spiders and…well…Charlotte creeped me out. A lot. Even though she had Julia Roberts’ soothing voice, she gave me the heeby jeebies.
That being said, the movie was very well done. I’ve realized in the last few days why movies are never as good as their bound counterparts. It’s because in a book, more detail about emotion and thoughts are brought to life. In a movie, you only get the visual, even when there’s a narrator. And it’s the internal processes of the characters that bring a book alive. You just don’t get that from a movie.
