Mason Witt Media and Film December 5, 2016 For my essay, I chose to compare Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1996, with its movie counterpart of the same name, directed by David Fincher in 1999, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Overall, the movie was remarkably faithful to the novel, despite a few scenes being changed, likely to save an overly long runtime. Keeping that in mind, much of both the book and the movie was open to interpretation by the reader, which makes citing specific differences between the two stories difficult. The novel Fight Club is about (and narrated by) a raging insomniac that is never named, who finds that the only way that he can sleep at night is by sitting in on support groups for deadly diseases
Jumanji is a short story, by Chris Van Allsburg, but also there is a movie Jumanji directed by Joe Johnson. Despite being two different types of entertainment they both share similarities in tone and many other things. Although they have some same comparisons they have many oppositions. They share a similarity in tone, frightening, throughout the film and book there is many examples of suspense.
imagination by the hand. There are not that many things that are different in the
The Joy Luck Club (1989), introduced the cultural values of China and America which was highly successful. It remained nine months on the Times Bestseller and was re-created into a movie which released in 1993 with the same name. Although there are not much influential differences, the visual/audio effects in movies, structures and languages, including the tones and pronunciations made some changes on the individual’s preference.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka describes the story of Gregor Samsa life, working an unpleasant job that leaves no time for him. His commitment to providing for his family left him feeling alienated from himself and others. Fight club by Chuck Palahniuk is about a man named Jack, who suffers from insomnia and is dissatisfied with his life. He feels distant so he needs to attend support group meetings just to experience human connection. To escape his sleep deprived state he creates an outlet to change into Tyler Durden. Gregor was a cockroach and Jack was an insane individual. Both had turned out to be so overnight. Their stories run shockingly parallel. Both of these progressions cause each character more problems than they had, to begin with. These stories, written years
In El Dorado California, once called Mud Springs, lived two twin sisters Elisa and Elizabeth. These 11 year olds lived with their grandmother Myra whom took care of them since they were 4 years of age after their parents passed away in a tragic car accident. They lived humbly in a small log cabin. Elisa and Elizabeth’s favorite pass time was to play in the forest; they loved acting and playing as magicians attempting to do magic tricks.
What makes a good adaptation? This is a question I asked myself after watching the trailer for the new Death Note Film. There are two ways you can mess an adaptation up, defined by a scale in my mind. There is being completely faithful to the source material, following it to a tee and essentially translating the source from it's medium, book, comic or whatever; to film. Then there's the other side of the spectrum where the Director strays too far away from the source material. Perhaps they make a good Film, but it is no longer an adaptation at this point. Where you want to be for an adaptation is anywhere in the middle.
The “OUTSIDERS”, a book and movie, portrays a small gang going through hard times. The Book and Movie may have the same plot but have small yet noticeable differences. Both stories take place around Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. These should be compared to show why sometimes movies get things wrong and why the book tends to be better, in this case they both stick to the plot with only a few missing or added details, such as the book is slower paced but has more detail, the movie misses or adds small details, and the movie destroys your thought of what characters look like.
The Outsiders is a movie and a book written by S.E. Hinton. It takes place around the 1960’s with it’s main character named Ponyboy Curtis and his adventure with Johnny when he kills Bob. The two then go out of the city when they realized the police will be after them and hid in a church at the top of a hill in the country. Johnny decides later on to come back home, but a fire happens in the church with children inside. Both Johnny and Ponyboy go inside to save them, but Johnny is hurt badly while Ponyboy gets knocked out by Dally because of a fire that was on him. They were both taken to the hospital, but Johnny was the one who actually stayed. Later on, Johnny dies with Dally and Ponyboy with him. Dally goes crazy and soon kills himself by a cop and Ponyboy then writes a story of what happen which apparently is the book/movie. Though the book and the movie come from the same idea, they are both still very different.
Freak the mighty written by Rodman Philbrick is about the adventures of Kevin and Maxwell. The movie The Mighty with Kieran Culkin and Elden Henson portrays the book well, yet there are some differences. Like the rescuing of Maxwell, Maxwell gets the empty book different, and Kevin’s death.
The Outsiders book and movie are the same but also very different to. These are some of the similarities I saw in the movie and book. It generally goes across the same idea/lesson that we are all the same rich,poor, or average. And that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, like some greasers are mean but some are nice, and how some socs are mean and some are nice. Also in the movie and the book they also both explain how johnny’s home life was harsh and brutal were no one in the home cared or loved for him. Also that Pony,Darry, and Soda were living them three, because of their parents dying in a car crash suddenly. It also shows that the greaser are like family nothing can break them apart, and they trust each other with their lives and love and care for them more than some of their own parents care for them. It also talks about in the movie and book that Johnny killed Bob
Going into the inner workings of Fight Club, all of the crude language and sexual scenes that take place in this book seems inappropriate but under all the grime is a good message. Shown in this excerpt from the book “ We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.” (Fight Club 207) The novel is a shocking reality for many people facing health and mental problems. Such as the main character going through the development and fighting his allusion that controls his life. This book can be violent at times but just another way to show how humans can tap into animalistic senses. Palahniuk has the ability to take the reader into a dark place just based on his syntax in the book using haikus to explain the main character 's feelings. To those who never had read
The ‘’ Outsiders ‘’ movie , and book are nerve racking, and suspicious. Realizing after the movie. That the movie ,and book have their differences.
I am planning to write about the 1999 film Fight Club, directed by David Fincher. This movie is about a nameless insomniac office worker (the narrator) who has become, as he views, a slave to consumer culture. He begins attending support groups for diseases he doesn’t have to subdue his emotional state, and he begins to sleep again. He meets Marla Singer, another fake attendee of support groups, she is an incredibly mysterious woman who is obviously a bit crazy, yet the narrator seems drawn to her. On a flight for his job, the narrator meets the character Tyler Durden, a hip, stylish man who sells soap for a living. When the narrator's apartment blows up, he calls Tyler and begins to live
The classic 1996 film Fight Club is a social commentary about our generation, which is in many ways devoid of spirit and marked by consumerism. It is the story of a man's spiritual journey towards enlightenment in modern society and his attempt to find his place in the world. It stresses a post-modern consumer society, reveals the loss of masculine identity amongst gray-collar workers, and examines the social stratification marked by our developing society. It follows the life of the narrator, who is referred to as Jack, (Edward Norton) as he struggles with insomnia and feelings of inadequacy in his desperate search to find meaning in his own life. The film, although
Fight Club is a movie that is based on a Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name. The movie adaptation was written by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher and released October 15, 1999. The movie is about the life of the narrator, a depressed insomniac who works as a recall coordinator for an automobile company. The narrator is refused medication by his doctor, he turns to attending a series of support groups for different illnesses and uses these support groups for emotional release and this helps to temporarily cure his insomnia. This newfound cure ceases to help him when a girl, Marla Singer who is not a victim of any illness for which the support groups are offered begins to attend the support groups. The narrator returns from a business