they say a picture is worth more than a thousand words.

the average feature film is 110 minutes long, so at a standard 24fps that's 24*60*110=158,400 pictures. multiplying by a thousand we get 158,400,000, the worth of an average film.

now let's think of a random book, let's go with the bible. of course there are different versions, but the King James bible has 783,137 words. 158400000/783137 ≈ 202.

so at exactly 110 minutes, Disney's Ratatouille is 202 times as good as the bible.

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@em One could argue, however, that some of the pictures being very similar to others actually provide the same thousand words, or perhaps 998 of the same words and 2 new ones.

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