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
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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
Instead, they added events to the movie that never happened in the book, and some of the events that occurred in the book, never occurred in the movie. For instance, in the novel, Owen dies a lieutenant, and in the movie, he dies as a boy. Also, in the movie, Simon speaks out loud during Mass and gets punished by the reverend. This never happened in the novel. I liked that the movie shows how powerful Owen and John’s friendship was; you could really tell they cared about each other.
To conclude, I have to mention that I had watched another BBC movie as well but I choose to write about Alan Bridge’s version and write comment based on it because I think it is better than (Julius Caesar 1979). Beside the points I bring up in this article like sticking to the original text, visual effects and adjustment of director in some scene, I have to admit that I am a visual person. Though, it does not mean I did not enjoy the reading as well as watching the movie, but I still think the movie have advantages over the book because of the three points that I mentioned in the
Another reason that certain things were not shown in the film that came from the novel is because they are sensitive for certain viewers to watch. Even with all the warnings little kids will still watch something like that because there is nothing stopping them. Movies nowadays have very sensitive content that is not meant for kids under a certain age to watch. In the novel there are parts where they might not be appealing to the eye to read and with a movie, people will not ‘want to watch it even if it has a good background.
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 was also important scenes that weren't in the movie but in the novel somewhere near the ending Sodapop runs out of the house and his brothers ran after him that was one important scene that the movie didn't show, it just skip that and went straight to the end. Then the part where Johnny’s mom came to see him at the hospital it didn’t show that in the movie only shown when the nurse told Johnny that his mom wanted to see him but didn't actually show his mom. The movie did add some scenes that weren't shown in the movie it showed Dally going into the store after Johnny’s death and robbing it and running
The book and the film were both simular, and yet different in many ways. An example would be, in the film, Ponyboy was walking to the drive-in and meeting Cherri and Marcia. Although in the book, Ponyboy began his journey by telling the readers about his experience about being jumped by the Socs and being threatened. The director probably had some options to pick from to leave out from the movie, and the director chosed this to leave out. Leaving out the part where Ponyboy was jumped was an effective move because without the experience Ponyboy was lost and helpless because he did not know what to do when he and Johnny got cornered in the park by Bob and other Socs.
When a movie comes out made after a specific novel, the screenplay eliminates most of these minute differences. For example, the letters in the beginning of the novel were depicted as high action scenes rather than in letter format.
In the book Watson went by himself to Laura Lyons house then got Holmes and went back to her house though in the movie Watson went only once and he was accompanied by Holmes. This is a minor difference that did not affect the storyline at all I think the reason for cutting this scene out was for time reasons. I believe that this was a very opportune time to cut a scene out because the first visit had no
Both the novel and the film share indistinguishable qualities. For example,They both have the same places as the novel.There were the DX,Tasty Freeze,the lot,the church,and the characters houses.Since they had the same places the same things happened.They have the same places so,they have the same scenes.However,they seem identical, they have a lot of differences.
When we saw the movie and the book and saw the movie, there were a couple of thing that they did not mention or did in the movie. In the movie they cut out some thing from the book. They did not really put everything they said in the book into the movie. They also did not really get some people personal feature. Here are something that were different from the movie, than what it said from the book.
With many scenes taken away because some characters are never mentioned took away a lot of the overall meaning of the story. I didn’t feel to relate to the movie as much as I did with the novel. Leaving an apt amount of scenes out, took away some of the anticipation I was building up to. Which made me a bit disappointed.
Although the book The Hound of the Baskerville and the film The Hound of the Baskerville have very similar main ideas there are smaller details that are different but still have an effect on the mood and plot. For example, Selden, in the book, has a beard, “‘A beard! A beard! The man has a beard!...It’s not the baronet-- it is---why, it is my neighbour, the convict’”(Doyle 193). While in the film, they discover the convict Selden is dead by a tattoo on his hand. A small detail but important for the plot. The book and the movie have many similarities and differences, both big and small, throughout both with their characters and overall mood.
Behind every great movie, comes a storyline that is derived from a book however, most of the books to the movies have a great number of deviations. The screenwriters and other staff members to include the director come up with these deviations to enhance the plot in the attempt to make it a more interesting film to which in turn can make a better profit. The majority of differences that is found in films main objective is to enhance the mind. For example, when a scene has the ability to get a particular feeling out of a viewer, it is imperative to be able to understand the reasons for those feelings. The dialog and the visual effects of a scene sets a tone that differs from that of the book that it was taken from. Also, screen writers and
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.
The book is able to have a very profound way of keeping the reader entertained by having many exciting chapters like when Harry Potter battled Professor Quirrell, and the movie tries to keep the story exciting by deleting some chapters that the producer considered “not so important” to the storyline. On the other hand, the movie is shortened in a way of learning all the basics of the story and in an exciting visual way. The fact is that all of the chapters and all of the parts of the chapters were important to the storyline because without that extra information the reader is left without a feeling of complete knowledge of the plot. An example of a chapter being completely left out is the chapter called “The Midnight Duel” which has