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Compare And Contrast The Book And Book

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Quoting Joseph Conrad’s famous statement as a storyteller “ My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the powers of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make to see. Sixteen years later, D.W Griffith, a filmmaker echoes the same thoughts “The task I’m trying to achieve is above all to make you see”. George Bluestone’s Novels into Film claims that “ between the percepts of the visual image and the concept of the mental image lies the root difference between two media.” It is true that a novel and film are both raw form of artistic creativity and it helps us to “see” a whole new world or imagination. However what is written and what is on screen, there will always be a difference because it is a change …show more content…

It is the same in The Company of Wolves although it adapts from a short story, the film itself is structured differently. It is told through a series of narration from a book that the grandmother reads to the child that creates the fantasy world. For example, the ending of the film the narrator describes the child’s future with the werewolf: “ She will lay his fearful head on her lap and she will pick out the lice from his pelt and perhaps she will put the lice in her mouth and eat them, as he will bid her, as she would do in a savage marriage ceremony.” The story ends with the child sleeping soundly in her grandmother’s bed, in between the paws of the tender wolf. However on text “ Little by little, there appeared within it, like the image on photographic paper that emerges,first, a formless web of tracery,the prey caught in its own fishing net, then a firmer yet still shadowed outline until a last as vivid as real life itself, as if brought into being by her soft, moist, gentle tongue, finally, the face of the …show more content…

It must be similar. In The Company of Wolves they seems to believe that werewolves are evil. The narrator mentions that “the wolf is carnivore incarnate” it is rather like a machine function to murder and devour. The wolf is said to be so evil that even his howl is “in itself a murdering”. From both story it is clear that there is no point pitying the human side of werewolves as they chose it themselves and it is through the child’s pity that moves her to join “the company of the wolves”. In both text and films, the themes being explored are sexuality and the loss of innocence. Which are told brilliantly in both forms despites the way it has been told through text and on screen. What the reader get out of the book is essentially what it should be replicated in the film rather than just content or what is the story structure of the

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