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Compare Bergman’s views about making films out of books with that of Umberto Eco’s.

According to Bergman a novel cannot be put into a film completely. If done so, it becomes a complete injustice to the novel because the novel triggers the intellectual faculty of a person whereas the film triggers the emotion directly.

But according to Umberto Eco the film takes over the popularity of a novel and its only when movie is made out of a novel that the novel reaches the epitome of its popularity. So the film indirectly helps the novel.


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