Translation from book to movie is always incomplete
I wouldn’t say ‘always’, since plenty of books don’t have anything besides what would be shown on the screen.
But also, conversely, cinema allows for things that can’t be put in a book. Lynch’s films can’t be turned into books with a semblance of the same effect — even though literature has its own surreal tradition, and Ballard, Kobo Abe or Murakami don’t quite work in film. And the notion of novelizing ‘Man With a Movie Camera’ doesn’t even make sense.
I wouldn’t say ‘always’, since plenty of books don’t have anything besides what would be shown on the screen.
But also, conversely, cinema allows for things that can’t be put in a book. Lynch’s films can’t be turned into books with a semblance of the same effect — even though literature has its own surreal tradition, and Ballard, Kobo Abe or Murakami don’t quite work in film. And the notion of novelizing ‘Man With a Movie Camera’ doesn’t even make sense.