The Help: Similarities and Differences Between the Book and Movie Do you ever read a book and say you want to see the movie after, or how about the other way around? Just so you can see the words turn into pictures or the pictures turn into words. Your so excited until you watch it and parts are left out, or you read it and some events are described differently then how the movie shows it. But you are also left with the reassurance that some things do happen the same way for the sake of getting the same story, or point across. The Help by Kathryn Stockett and the movie, The Help, is a great example of a book and its movie having lot of differences but still having similarities where they are needed.
The Giver Novel versus Movie Despite the difference between the two, The Giver, by Lois Lowery is more successful than the movie version of The Giver, screen written by Michael Mitnick. Some people may say that the movie is better but actually the novel is the real winner. Mitnick the screenwriter of the movie made a lot of changes from the novel to make the story more appealing to the audience. There are a lot of reasons he made those changes. The effects of the changes made the movie appealing also.
Have you ever watched a movie based on a book, but the movie was actually better? Movies that are based on books are commonly different from the original version. They have similarities but they also have multiple differences. “The Odyssey,” is an epic poem from Ancient Greece originally written by Homer and then translated by Robert Fitzgerald. This book was made into a movie by Andrey Konchalovskiy.
Interpreting a novel, such as Into the Wild, into a movie is a very difficult task to accomplish. Fans always have their own personal picture of what really happens in the novel at hand and when it is portrayed in a motion picture, they are more often than not severely disappointed. Other times, as rare as they are, the viewers can see no major differences in the film and are extremely pleased with it. While watching Into the Wild, I could not pick out the small differences it had from the novel. It contained all of the major key points that kept the story line moving, such as, Christopher McCandless’s father having a second family to him eating the wrong plant which in the end caused his imminent death.
“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. In today’s times a lot of movies are based on a written literature. Many students watch the movie instead of reading the book maybe because it’s more enjoyable but for some they take it as an easy way out. It’s obvious that it’s easier to watch the movie then reading the book but the movie lacks the details that are present in the book. I think if a director of a movie is basing a movie on the book they should add a lot of the little details that lead up to the climax of the story that were present in the book.
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.
The Endless Argument As you are walking out of the movie theater you hear the endless debate between friends of whether the book or the movie was better. You might hear, "I thought the book was so much better." Or another person might say, "I didn't even know a book existed." Some may say a book is better because you can take your time reading and interpretating. Others might say a movie is better because the movie does the interpretating for them.
What fascinates me is also how the more you think about the characters and details, the more you discover on a bigger scale. A common theme in Guillermo Del Toro films is the aspect of fantasy and a how reality does not always be as straightforward as we might seem. With Pan’s Labyrinth, it is, of course, no different, with a dark and grotesque take, leaving the audience with a fairytale for grown-ups. In my assignment I want to make a narrative and stylistic analysis of the movie, trying to figure out how the movie with managing to mix both reality and fiction, drags the audience into this beautiful, yet grotesque universe, and what meaning lies behind it. 2.
O classic, classic, shall you be taken over by cult? Kaila Brown, Bliss There has been much debate about whether cult sensations such as ‘Twilight’, should replace the classics such as ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’, and whether they are unrealistic, out dated and irrelevant. To find out if these classics still hold a place in modern society, Bliss reporter Kaila Brown delves into the differences between classic and cult, the ideals of love in the classics and the romantic principles presented in the classics, and how they shape the modern texts of today. Classic and cult. What is the difference?
First of all, how does conversation function in Much Ado about Nothing? Conversation is used to give direction to the plot of a story, movie or (in this case) the play. Conversation is an extremely helpful tool in the world of writing, from using it to add to the plot, or to confuse the watchers or readers. Imagine what books would be like without conversation. Think about it: a play without conversation would lack dialogue, and it would not be a play anymore.