This summer I read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. I found this book to be both an interesting story and that the characters in the book made me not want to put this book down. I also watched the Twilight movie this summer. I found that the book was better than the movie. The book went into better detail than the movie. Also the movie created scenes that were not in the book.
The first example of why the movie is better than the book is the book went into better detail than the movie. One example of a scene the book went into greater detail about is when Bella is in the hospital after James has bitten her. Edward tells her she should stay in florida. But Bella wants to go back to Forks. In the book it says "Don't leave me...Do you swear you won't leave me?" (pg. 471). In the movie Bella doesn't say very much about it, she just reacts. Furthermore in the movie it's a quick 3 minute long scene, that doesn't have as much dialogue and action as the scene in the book. In that short period of time the movie didn't capture just as many events that happened in that particular scene than the book did.
A second example of why the movie is better than the book is that the movie added scenes that did not take place in the books. For example during the scene where Bella meets Edward's family the movie has Bella meet his family while they are cooking for her. When Bella tells them politely that she has eaten already Rosalie breaks a plate because she is angry. But the the book it says "Waiting to greet us, standing just to the left of the door, on a raised portion of the floor by a spectacular grand piano, were Edward's parents." (pg. 322). That is the scene where Bella is introduced to everyone, the cooking scene doesn't even exist in the books.The way it is in the book works better for the story because things happen before then add up to what happens.
Overall I believe that the book is much better than the movie because the movie included scenes that didn't take place in the book and didn't always work perfectly with the story line, and in some scenes the movie didn't go into very much detail about events that were very detailed in the book. So all in all, both representations of the story are good, but the book is better storyline.
