If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words will there be when you have twenty-four pictures running sixty times a minute for two hours on average? It seems that when it comes to pictures, and their conversion rate to words, there has to be a point where the law of diminishing returns takes effect, right? How can approximately 150,000-200,000 words be cannot be contained within a two-hour movie when most movies adapted from books are often a significant fraction of the length of their source material?
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