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Hound Of The Baskervilles Movie And Book Comparison Essay

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Sometimes it is genuinely surprising how different novels and cinematic arts can be, don’t you think? One example of this comparison is found in the Hound of the Baskervilles novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The novel written by, Arthur C. Doyle, while the movie adaptation(2002 edition) directed by, David Attwood. In the movie adaptation Richard Roxburgh plays as Sherlock Holmes and Ian Hart plays as Dr. John Watson. These two different portrayals of the same story show how much a novel and a movie can vary.

The movie had several scenes that are not in the book, these scenes are added to give the movie a stronger atmosphere. Some examples include when Sherlock Holmes is at 221B Baker Street waiting to meet Sir Henry Baskerville's. In the movie, he injects himself with a drug, this is to express the fact that Sherlock was an addict. In the book he consoles himself with a violin, “Might I ask you to hand me my violin...”(Arthur C. Doyle 40). Another example of this concept is the Christmas …show more content…

Scenes were removed either considering they were too difficult to recreate or they were just preventing the movie from flowing correctly. Relatively the changes were not too extreme, but they were still existent and did have an effect on the story. One of these scenes is the beginning scene of the novel. In this scene Sherlock and Watson are trying to find out who owns the walking stick left on their doorstep. “But, tell me Watson what do you make of our visitors stick?”(Arthur C. Doyle 2). In the adaptation the story dives straight in without the expression of Holmes impressive skill.

In both stories there are similarities consequently there are some inconsistencies. Some include in the novel by Doyle, Dr Mortimer states “...but I confess that I covet your skull.” (Arthur C. D. 9) While in the movie Stapleton states the same concept at the party that never happens in the

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