Comparison of the Book Cyrano de Bergerac and the Movie, Roxanne

Normally, when a movie is made about a story in a book the two stories are not exactly the same. The movie is adjusted by adding small details or leaving out some parts in order to make the story more

There are many similarities and some minor differences between the movie, directed by Claude Chabrol, and the short story it is based off of, written by Guy de Maupassant. The plot, setting, and characters are all highly similar in both the story and the film. In both, the plot follows the same scheme, it is set in Paris in the 1880’s, and all of the main characters are the same. The major difference that stood out to me is how these aspects are displayed at the beginning of the narrative.

The plot and the setting of book and movie are very similar. There was a lot of thins borrowed from the book, but there was a lot changed as well. The movie followed the plot of book very closely and portrayed the setting of the book very well. A lot of the dialogue was borrowed and spoken directly as it was in the book.

There are also many similarities between the book and the movie as well. One would be the theme of both the movie and the book which is that greed causes people to do horrible things. For example, when Juana tried to throw Kino’s pearl into the ocean, Kino tore the pearl back from her and beat her. Another thing the book and the movie have in common is that Coyotito dies in the end. This is critical because when Coyotito dies that is when Kino realizes the evil of the pearl and that he must get rid of it. It

Even though the novel and the movie are based on the same plot they have some differences throughout the story. In the book the timeline throughout the adventure is over years, but in the movie this is a adventure that does not take as near as long because they could not fit that all into the movie. The movie and novel also take places in different settings, the novel takes place in Oklahoma City but the movie takes place in Cleveland. There is also the death of Daito in the novel that never even took place in the movie. Even though a book and a movie have the same plot line it does not meant that they have to be completely the same.

One of the biggest differences in “Roxanne” and “Cyrano de Bergerac” is the time period. The movie, “Roxanne” is based America with a setting in 1987, and the play is based France in 1640. The second biggest change is the characters names, for example, Cyrano’s name is Charlie, and Christians name is Chris. Since the time period is different, the fights are too, instead of sword fights and going to war, they fist fight and have yelling matches. The movie “Roxanne” still follows the same principle as Cyrano, for example, Cyrano says he falls from the moon to distract De Guiche from catching Roxanne’s and Christians wedding. In “Roxanne,” Charlie falls from a tree and has old ladies go to Roxanne’s house

Structure of both, the movie and the book is complex to understand. Now, what happens with characters? Are they pretty similar from each version? An accurate answer would be: “Not entirely”. Some of these features can be because of some actions that are different in both versions. For instance, the scene when Carla Jean, Lewelis’ wife, meets Chigurh. In the movie, this is what they talk:

There are other significant similarities between the movie and the book, so if I overlooked or forgot any extremely crucial points, forgive me.

In the movie it states”Lets begin at the begging I'm Rivkah and this is your aunt or my mom mina”(Deitch 14:32)in the movie Rivkah is her cousin and she is the one who helps her all the way in town and where to go until she gets sick and her mom dies she becomes sad and depressed then it's Hannah who helps her get through it and live. In the book to the movie there are many differences like in the book there is Hannah or known as chaya’s uncle Shmuel and aunt gitl from when she went back in the time of the Holocaust and there is a butcher named Yitzhak.Also, he has two children in the movie none of those characters are there like in the movie there is a new character named Ariel in the book there is no character like him and she has no interactions at all with him or any character like

There are a lot of similarities in the movie and the book. Now here are some differences. Flora wasn't in the movie, Angela was engaged to Ed plum rather than her being engaged to Denton Deere, Theo wasn't in the movie, but was

Although the movie and novel have many similarities, they have quite a lot of differences

When watching the film, the first difference the viewer can see between the book and the movie is how the characters are portrayed. A notable example would be Carlson. In the film,

The narrator in the movie is Pearl, but in the book the narrator is the author who discloses the story from a third person point of view. However with Pearl as the narrator, she is able to provide a first person account of what occurred to her mother, Hester Prynne, and her father, giving the story a more credible narrator. Also, as she recounts Hester’s life from a personal perspective, it allows her to include her own thoughts and feelings over the matter. Therefore, the visualization of the plot is different than it would be if the author of the novel

The book and the novel both have similarities. One similarities is that one side is poor and the other side is rich. In the book and the novel there is a poor side and a rich side that is one similarity. The book and the novel are petty similar but they do have some similar things.

Both the story and the movie revolves around a knight falling in love with a beautiful maiden. I don't think there was much jousting in the book as much as the movie, but both the story and the movie depicts a dispute with the kings and wanting to take the young maidens hand in marriage. Also nobody died in the movie, but in the book there was one