I prefer the 1939 film adaption of The Hound of the Baskervilles better than the 2002 film adaptation because it is more appropriate, and sticks to the novel. The 1939 film adaptation was less violent and definitely less gory. I personally don’t think that violence and gore are necessary in order to get the point across. The 1939 film adaptation, featuring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, was more suspenseful than the 2002 television movie. I feel like the definition “scary” of movies nowadays is because they have a lot of violence and gore. In the classical movie era, “scary” was suspenseful (Alfred Hitchcock, Bogie and Bacall). In the late sixties, the rating system developed. That signified the end of classical movies and the introduction to the “new and improved (not)” movie. Rotten Tomatoes, the biggest movie base rates almost all movies from 0-100. The 1939 film adaptation has an 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Other films with an 100% include, All About Eve, (Bette Davis, Celeste Holm) The Band Wagon, (Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse) and Silk Stockings (Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse). To give that some perspective, The Hunger Games has an 84%, The Hobbit has a 59%, Harry Potter has a 91%. Notice as a pattern, the older a movie gets, the higher the rating. The Princess Bride has a 97%. I guess my point is that the older movies are more appropriate. The 1939 adaptation is Not Rated. That means there is no need for it to be rated. There is no bad material. So you would be like, “The 2002 movie would be G. Right?” Not! It is a television movie so it has no Rotten Tomatoes rating, but it is rated 15 in England. …show more content…
Beryl Stapleton however, didn’t know the her brother was doing all of those bad things to her fiance. She didn’t die at the end of the old movie. The Man on the Tor did not exist in the old version. Instead, Holmes just dressed up as an old pedlar. The characters of Laura Lyons and Cartwright were totally cut out of both
Every generation contains a spectrum of people from very conservative to very liberal. Only the percentages change. My generation is pretty much liberal. Most people from the 1930's and 1940's generally did not have much due to the depression and WW-II so they developed high values for God, patriotism, freedom, family, goals, hard work, and self reliance. Not many people depended on government handouts for their everyday needs. And the main goal of congress and the white house was the security and well-being of the country and its people, not just funding their next campaign.
Another reason that certain things were not shown in the film that came from the novel is because they are sensitive for certain viewers to watch. Even with all the warnings little kids will still watch something like that because there is nothing stopping them. Movies nowadays have very sensitive content that is not meant for kids under a certain age to watch. In the novel there are parts where they might not be appealing to the eye to read and with a movie, people will not ‘want to watch it even if it has a good background.
Due to the failure of the Weimar Republic and general public dissatisfaction arising from poor economic conditions exacerbated by the Treaty of Versailles, coupled with the 1929 Wall Street Crash, German citizens were understandably desperate for change. Until this point in time the Nazi party, and Hitler, had been essentially unpopular. However, the economic situation ensured Hitler’s increasing popularity as the people looked toward more extreme but non-communist ideals. The initial consolidation of Nazi power in 1933 arose from key events such as the support of the Nationalist Party with the Nazis to form a coalition government, implementation of the Enabling
From the novel to kill a mockingbird we are going to experience some of the economic inequality problems that they have faced and the tolerances that they were going through that time of history. Like the economic classes they face like weather they are poor ,middle class or rich or racist thing that people went through at that time of history.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler are often referred to as two of the most influential people of the first half of the twentieth century. FDR and Hitler were certainly the two most influential and powerful people in their time of economic depression and world war. These were two very different men, but they had their similarities. Both of these men brought their country’s out of an economic depression. The two were very impressive speakers. Hitler certainly had his “critics”, but so too did Franklin Roosevelt.
Final Exam: Between the beginning of World War II and the present decade, the United States underwent significant reform through key legislative acts, which addressed race relations, poverty, and gender. Explain these different categories of reform, their early proponents, their evolution into legislation, and whether or not this legislation truly addressed the issues.
Both the Progressive Era and the 1930s were transformational for the United States of America. The Great Depression and the New Deal occurred in the 1930s and great change took place to try and fix the issues that were ongoing at that time. Though the two eras had some striking similarities, I believe that the Progressive Era (1890’s to 1920’s) was more transformational to our country as a whole than the 1930’s was.
Have you ever wondered why everything is more expensive then it was many years ago? For this research paper I will be comparing the prices of gasoline, the price of the car that Atticus drives in To Kill a Mockingbird (a 1928 Chevrolet National), and the price of the average house in Monroeville, Alabama (the town that Maycomb, Alabama is based on) from what they were in 1928 to the price they are today.
By the year 1930, the United States of America’s economy was in a “critical [state of] national emergency” (Roosevelt, 1933). With reference to F. D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” – the policies of economic reform introduced to rebuild the American economy – this essay will compare and contrast the economic situation of present-day South Africa, with that of the United States of America in the 1930s, and will serve to explore the economic theory supporting the major policies implemented in attempt to alleviate the stress on the economy. Lastly, it will build on this theory to suggest two supply-side fiscal policies – education and skills development, and tax reform – which, if implemented effectively by government, would contribute to addressing unemployment and poverty in South Africa.
When you hear people talking about the Great Depression you automatically know what they’re talking about, and all of the things that you learned about that time come to mind. The reason I choose this topic is because, I know a little about it but would like to learn even more about the topic. The things that the people really went through, the struggle, pain, etc. During my research, I will look into these topics of the era to have a better understanding and then maybe compare it to modern time today.
The Change of the Treatment of the Nazis from 1939-1945 On January 20th 1942 an important meeting took place where fifteen high-ranking Nazi party and governmental leaders gathered for an important meeting that lasted around 90 minutes. The meeting was known as the wannsee conference and the purpose was to discuss "the final solution". This involved many different strategies to help get rid of the Jews in Europe. After the conference the number of killings in the streets increased, deportation and mass murders escalated within a month of the conference taking place, all centers were ready for murder.
Throughout many types of literature, violence exists to enhance the reader 's interest in order to add a sense of excitement or conflict to a novel. This statement withholds much truthfulness due to the fact that without violence in a piece of literature such as Dracula by Bram Stoker, the plot would not have the same impact if it were lacking violence. So to holds true to that of the movie. The movie bares different characteristics then that of the book. First off, the whole ordeal with the wolf escaping and jumping into Lucy 's, room and Lucy 's mom having a heart attacked is never even mention in the movie. Second, The night when the four men go to Lucy 's grave and find it empty is stated both in the book and in the movie however
Mussolini and Hitler’s time in power was around the time its countries were most vulnerable. Their power was so successful because of their full and unconditional support from its people. If they were failing somehow, through their use of propaganda they made it seem like they were booming, socially, economically and politically. Adolf Hitler, born and raised in 1889, Austria. Dying in April 1945 Germany, he commit suicide just two days after Mussolini died by firing squad alongside his mistress, in Italy. Benito Mussolini was born in 1883 Italy where he bullied many kids (Downing, 2001). Hitler was able to successfully work his way up from the inside of government, which overall explains why Hitler’s 12 years in power went more smoothly than Mussolini’s 18 years. Due to both leaders having fascist policies allowed their countries to be alike. Their personality cults did not necessarily help them rise to power but it certainly consolidated their positions once ‘Fuhrer’ or ‘Duce’. Also, their propaganda use strongly encouraged the people to support their leader and gain respect for them. The events prior to their rise played a significant role when analysing their personalities, ideologies, and propaganda. To a large extent, their
When making a distinction between movie and novel, it is not acceptable, in my opinion to talk about the differences between the two versions in terms of "better" or "worse." You may like how the artist creates a scene in the movie or how another artist plays with the same scene in the novel, but these are subjective preferences; neither speak to the quality of the work. You cannot critically compare different media, because you do not have a common set of terms with which to comparatively discuss the works.
The book The Hound Of The Baskerville was written in 1901. The novel was published in serial form from 1901 to 1902. It has proved to be a great success even today and is considered by some Sherlock Holmes scholars to be Doyle’s best work. It has inspired more than twenty film and television reinterpretations, made in diverse places such as Germany, Australia, Canada, the United States, and also the United Kingdom. The most recent such reinvention of this story can be seen in the BBC series Sherlock, although this is in fact very much different from the original novel.