"Reading" a Film

Last class, we saw part of the movie adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot. As in all film adaptations from books, almost everything is different in the movie than in the reader's mind. This was the case for me with this film. In the first page of the screenplay of WFG, the setting description for the play is simple: 

A country road. A tree. Evening.  

 This straightforward description gives the reader plenty of room to imagine his ideal setting according to what he or she just read. The setting I imagined was a country road (obviously) with plenty of grass and farmland in the back. Also, the road was lined with trees until the end and occasionally, some people passed by in their cars. The movie director's idea of the set for his or her movie was totally different. 

This was sort of my interpretation:


And this is the director's interpretation of the road:



As seen, the interpretation between a reader and a director is very different. This is just because everyone has their own imagined roads and characters from the book. The setting in the movie is just an interpretation from one person. And that is the one seen in the movie, so it seems weird to the viewer because they had a different picture in their heads when and if they read the book. But which interpretation is better? I believe the one in the movie is just fine and the director just wanted to show his or her point of view or use it as a symbol; but most of all, it is the image in the reader's head that is most important because it is unique and no one else can see it but the reader.