Comparing The Film 'Me And Earl And The Dying Girl'

In recent years, it has become popular for many of America's great literary masterpieces to be adapted into film versions. As easy a task as it may sound, there are many problems that can arise from trying to adapt a book into a movie, being that the written word is what makes the novel a literary work of art. Many times, it is hard to express the written word on camera because the words that express so much action and feeling can not always be expressed the same way through pictures and acting. One example of this can be found in the comparison of Ken Kesey's novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the film version directed in 1975 by Milos Forman.

As most everyone knows, there are differences between a book and it’s movie adaptation. This is applicable to the book and it’s movie counterpart To Kill a Mockingbird, as well. But aside from the differences, there are also similarities between these two.

It is an unimaginable thought that something so similar can be missing so much. They can be both so unique and incomparable. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee the main character, Scout and her brother Jem fight prejudice through a young person perspective. The main characters go on a journey against Bob Ewell throughout the sleepy town of Maycomb, at the 1930’s. Bob Ewell has falsely accused Tom Robinson of a crime. On the process the characters grow a lot and find things that spark their curiosity. This makes an interesting plot with many turns. The movie, To Kill a Mockingbird, has many differences from its book, many plots and characters are missing which greatly impacts the movie directed by Robert Mulligan.

The movie tells the story of two hit men, a mob boss and his wife, and an aging boxer. The stories of these people are put together to create a bizarre yet funny movie.

A book about friendship, illness, and adolescents told from a very relatable and interesting perspective, but have we seen it before? Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews is a YA novel that although has a similar plot to many, brings a new perspective through a comedic writing style. As all books are, it is flawed but captivates the audience through cries and laughs, earning it a thumbs up.

A very interesting movie On Golden Pond. Not only learning as you get older there are a lot of changes as well when exploring your adolescent’s years. Confusing, anxiety, anger, and a lot more feelings that occur throughout the journey to late adulthood. The movie was mainly on the characters Billy, Chelsea, Ethel, and Norman who were viewed dealing with biological, cognitive, sociological experiences while dealing with obstacles of family struggles.

From their Grammy award-winning album Fly, “Goodbye Earl” was a track that led to much controversy. The overall theme of the song concerned domestic violence. By using Kenneth Burke’s Pentad, otherwise known as dramatism, one will be able to find the concept of motive from the characters involved and their actions.

Published in 1995 by Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham is a story of an African- American family living in a town of Flint, Michigan, having a journey to Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. The movie came out in 2013, similar to the original novel. This loving family consists of five members: Byron Watson, an official juvenile delinquent, Kenneth Bernard Watson, ten years old boy with a lazy eye, Joetta Watson, an obedient youngest Watson, Wilona Sands Watson, Momma who always look after her kids, and lastly, David Watson, a thoughtful reliable dad. In fact, the movie is quite different from the novel, because the plot events don’t match with the movie, there is fused resolution, there is some missing and different characters, and the focus of the theme are slightly different.

In my opinion, I think the movie version of Little Women was really successful. Although movie version had fewer good details than novel’s, but it was extremely moving. It touched my heart and I was almost crying. There were many things that I imagined in other way, but through this movie, it helped me a lot. When Beth died and she talked with Jo, I could see myself there. I understood how she was feeling then. It was such a success of this movie. By the way, it gave me a strong feeling of the freedom, the right for women, and gorgeous scenes in the 19th century. Last but not least, I love some happy moments between The March Family and Laury, funny scenes between Mr. Behr and Jo, and very romantic proposal of Laury and

     There are many similarities and differences between the sixties version of Romeo and Juliet and the modern version of Romeo and Juliet. It is very easy to spot these differences considering the time period each movie was set in. There are some things in the play that totally got cut from both movies. There are also some things that they added to the movies that weren’t in the play. Let us get on to the similarities and differences.

As a granddaughter of a woman who lost her battle to breast cancer last April I realize the emotions that cancer can bring. The constant battle of wanting to scream, cry, deny anything is wrong and then finally accepting the fact. There are days when you want to lock yourself in a room and cry yourself to sleep because that is the only way it seems to deal with situation. But after doing that you need to wipe the tears away and put on a smile because there is a more productive way to be spending your time, making your loved one feel like a human again. When I saw the trailer for Me and Earl and The Dying Girl I immediately a connection with the plot and the characters. Throughout the trailer the filmmakers employ the use of pathos with the verbal, aural and visual aspects to show the viewers the effects of cancer on loved ones.

This movie goes around some high school kids. the main characters of the movie are two guys and a girl. a psychopath killer who has mental issues because of his parent’s divorce when his mom found that his dad was cheating on her and this killer name was Billy. This psychopath killer had a friend named Stu who was crazy about all the movies and killing he was just doing all the killing for fun. The third character was a girl how was kind od the main heroine in this movie and her name is Sydney who happens to be the daughter of the woman who Billy’s father cheated with, so that kind of led to an obsession for Belly to kill everyone who was kind of connected to that women including Sydney who even becomes his girlfriend and all of that because she happens to be that women daughter. So both killers at some point killed their girlfriend as you can see that they even killed Stu’s girlfriend who was Sydney’s friend so kind of it was an obsession to kill any one related to Sydney’s mother whether it was directly or not.

This movie is mainly about a sixteen year old kid named Craig Gilner. Craig is a young kid who comes from a pretty normal family, has friends, goes to school and has somewhat a social life, but yet still suffers a psychological disorder known as depression. This disorder Craig is battling with makes him afraid he might commit suicide, so he seeks help by going to a psychiatric facility having the mindset that he would be prescribed some drugs or at most treated that same day. Little did he know that he was going to be checked into the facility and had minimum of 5 days before he could be discharged. While in this facility he encountered different types

This movie is mainly about a narrators search for meaning and the fight to find freedom from a meaningless way of life. It setting is in suburbia, an abandoned house located in a major large city. Ed Norton, plays the nameless narrator, Brad Pitt, is Tyler Dunden, and Helena Boaham Carter is Marla Singer, the three main characters. David Fincher directs this film in 1999, which adapted it from the novel written by Chuck Palahnuik.

The purpose of this report is to compare and contrast two movies made about Hamlet. I will present and discuss different aspects of the version directed by Kenneth Branagh to that of Franco Zefirelli. During this paper you will be presented with my opinions in reference to determining which version of Hamlet best reflects the original text by Shakespeare. I will end this paper with my belief and explanation of which movie is true to the original play.