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The formal elements of literature are bounded solely by linguistic significance. Film's elements are bounded by time (LIKE MUSIC), by the space (a bit like painting), and by the physics of light and the eye's response to it (very analogous to the physics of sound waves and the biology of the ear). Nothing about that even remotely resembles the semantic dimension of literature. They're too completely different semiologies. The conventions of filmmaking are similiar to the conventions of literature, ie plot, characters, blah blah blah, but it would be a mistake to confuse convention with form.
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