Ironically, McMurphy was only able to escape the psychiatric hospital through death. The role of a psychiatric hospital is depicted in a very bad light in this film. Psychiatry is depicted as involving brutality and abuse. One method of controlling disruptive patients in the film was to subject them to a severe electric shock to the head. This type of brutality shows the public of this time viewed psychiatric hospitals as guilty of harming patients.
The animation movie is literally identical to the comic book, whether it’s the plot, art, or dialogue, everything is taken right out of the comic making the tiniest of changes. Despite this I found the comic much more effective than the animated smovie in many aspects. Although they both used the same art, for some weird reason I found the book to be more entertaining (not as expected). I guess it might just be that the art was more suited for the flow of the book (after all that was the artist’s initial intention). On the other hand the fighting/action scenes seemed to shine in the movie version probably due to the quick movements and also the addition of music was a positive for the
In my own opinion; the book was often difficult to understand at time because the wording was quite different than the vocabulary that we use today. I found the film adaptation to be much easier to follow but enjoyed the novel just as well. Despite the extended time period of over a century between the film and novel both begin using almost the same plot. The novel is off to a quick start that immediately gauges the readers attention to what is happening to Alice as she falls down a very deep rabbit hole. The author goes into great detail to describe all of the different pieces of furniture and object that the main character passes on her long journey to Wonderland (Carroll 1).
Films sometimes use plays as their sources. William Shakespeare has been called the most popular screenwriter in Hollywood. We are likely to assume that any translation of a Shakespeare text into a ‘live’ dramatic form-theatrical performance, film adaptation, television production-will automatically constitute a progressive act. Shakespeare is so frequently adapted because he is a major author. There are also economic and legal factors: Shakespeare is helpfully outside copyright law as well as interesting to adapt.
Apocalypse Now (I apologize for the length, but this movie was absolutely amazing in how it made me appreciate something I previously hated, and I was truly moved to write in this length about it.) Unfortunately, upon watching Apocalypse Now, I was compelled to compare the movie to Heart of Darkness, a book that honestly I did not enjoy reading. However, I was pleased to see that Mr. Coppola merely took inspiration from the book, and in fact in a rather intelligent and powerful manner. I don’t like to call the movie “entertaining” given how uncomfortable it made me, but I did enjoy the movie regardless, and it was powerful enough to give me plenty to talk about. The movie contained a number of allusions to the book, such as a first-person narrator who is deeply affected by his experience (Marlow in Heart’s Africa and Willard in Now’s Vietnam) and a character named Kurtz who is worshipped like a god by the natives.
Brandon FLOGGNAW 4/28/14 Period 1 ENG 9 R+J Movie Compare/Contrast Pros and Cons The two Romeo and Juliet movies were very unique and creative. The two movies were very different but still stayed true to the original play. The two movies barely changed to much in the movie, but they did still add a few things here and there. The two movies were very good, they were both very good adaptions of the original play. Even though the movies were very good adaptions, the movies did changes some things whether it was text or scenery.
Mollie D. Lesslie Instructor: English 101 Unit 1 / Essay 1 Final Draft January 22, “Timeline” Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Flat After reading the book, "Timeline" by Michael Crichton, I was very excited to see the movie. The story is fascinating for an action/adventure, fantasy/sci-fi fan. Classic action/adventure encapsulating pretentious villains, harrowing rescues in a sci-fi setting of time travel with a touch of romance and a slight bit of comic relief. Yet somehow the screen version left something to be desired. After all, one would think, how could you go wrong when Michael Crichton’s creative track record includes such films as "Westworld", and "Twister".
Opposite of a book is a movie. In a movie you see and accept the story, characters, and setting the way director presents it to you. There were many noticeable significant differences between a book and a movie based on that same book. One can only see the difference, if you read and watch the movie. “Joe Gould’s Secret” is a nonfiction story written by Joseph Mitchell, and a movie based on this book is also called “Joe Gould’s Secret” directed by Stanley Tucci.
Cooper McNiel Professor Handel ENG 2102 9 September 2013 Review of Barton Fink If you can manage to wrap your head around a number of different themes in the same movie, Ethan and Joel Cohen’s Barton Fink (1991) is a viewing experience you’ll thoroughly enjoy. Not atypical of a film directed by the Cohen brothers, Barton Fink struggles to call any one genre “home”. Rather than settle into the category of Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, or Romance, a little bit of each is peppered in, giving the entire film fascinatingly broad range. George Booker of noripcord.com attributes the underwhelming box office performance to the movie’s lack of a true genre. “Barton Fink may be an impossible film to categorize, so oddly personal and difficult to compare as it is.
The phrase "breaking the mold" is used somewhat frequently in movie reviews, often by overzealous pseudo-critics desperately clinging to a belief that their new found favorite film charted some sort of undiscovered film-world territory. Every now and then, however, there is a Hollywood product that truly lives up to such a phrase. The 1994 sophomore project by Quentin Tarantino, with its nonlinear storyline and quotable dialogue around every turn, is certainly one of them. Though laced with language and subject matters that some folks may not agree with, Pulp Fiction delivers unforgettable acting and a driving soundtrack which, when combined, result in a film to experience rather than just watch. The uncommon writing style of Pulp Fiction can be described most clearly as three stories and three smaller vignettes that are interwoven to produce one larger allegory.