Visualization of books

I got a question, when a well-know book is turned into a movie later on, how much is the visualisation of the book is affected by how the movie portrays the character?

And I do know that some people with little imagination say that they cannot read a book due to their trouble visualising/imagining the text’s context…

For example, in the original Harry Potter books Harry is described as having scruffy hair and green eyes, so most readers had imagined him like that- fast forward to the movie version where the actor didn’t have green eyes and… Then those who watched the movies before reading the books said the MC didn’t match the movie’s version.

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