Losing with Filming

In books, the author describes the characters with deep detail, depicting a certain image that you are left with to discover, and make your own. They leave you lots of room to interpret the characters, to picture what the characters would look like, and how they react to certain events. You are left to make your own characters out of the author's ideas and words. With certain books, you fall in love with the characters, and laugh when the are happy, and cry when they are sad. You feel apart of their lives, and feel somewhat sad when the last sentence is said, and you find yourself at the back of the book, with only the binding between your fingers.
Yet, when books are made into films, that entire experience is lost. Making your own story from what the books outline, picturing what certain things look like, whether it be scenery, actions, or even the characters. In movies, everything is laid out for you. Whether it be for the better, or most often, for the worst. Movies take away the luxury of being able to imagine what this or that would be like if it were for real. No two people think exactly the same, so the director will most likely not create an exact feeling that the certain book did. And even if they do a pretty good job, what about the actors? The actors are not exactly the people in the book, and could never look exactly like how you imagined they would look like, or act.

I was thinking about this when I watched the interview of the director for the full-versioned Hamlet. Will this director create a portrait of the book with a deep insight into what people read between the lines? Will he discover what these characters should look like, and what they should express for the audience? I have not read Hamlet before, and ignorantly do not know the story either, so I do not know the exact opposition the director is facing when he created the film. Is it a difficult Shakespear creation, that seems to only come alive with words? Or can it be presented in a film? We will have to see...