During the battle scenes, did you want the Allied soldiers to win or did you want Paul and his German friends to win? What does this tell you about the mental process by which a person reads a book or sees a movie?

I wished for Paul and his German friends to win because the movie started out with them so I got more used to the idea of them and started to grow to like them. 

The mental process includes the ideas of a book because someone wishes for a longer, more detailed, and more mentaly pictured version. 

For a movie someone wants a imagery, shorter, and less detailed version.