Is that the end? People, while watching a movie that was previously a novel they had read, often ask themselves, “Is that the end?” or “What about the part when…?” or even “I didn't read about this part.” This tends to happen a lot in the world of novels that have been created into films. Authors write books so people are interested and want to keep reading. They grab the readers attention in the beginning and leave them wanting more after each chapter. Directors do things a little differently. Sometimes every little detail in a book can be boring, so directors often eliminate unimportant or insignificant details completely when making their films. Movies are all about action, directors want the audience to be intrigued and fascinated …show more content…
Forman does an excellent job with her use of imagery for this scene. When Mia finds her dad after the crash, she describes what she sees. She is very graphic and states that she sees “gray chunks of cauliflower” all around her dad on the asphalt, which is really chunks of his brain on the road. Mia then finds her mother with “blue lips” and “the whites of her eyes red”. In the movie, she had hope that both of her parents were still alive, her dad more than her mom because just looking at her mother made it hard for her to believe she would survive where as in the book, she knew they were both dead before she found her limp self in the snow. Later in the book her mom says that if she were to die she would want her and her husband to die together which happens in the book and many people believe this should've happened in the movie as well. In the film, her dad actually makes it to the hospital and her mom was DOA. (Dead on arrival). Also in the movie, she does not even find her parents, she is too distracted by finding herself in the snow to consider looking for …show more content…
Himself and Kim make up a plan to get past the guards protecting people from entering the ICU unit. In the movie all that happens is Kim distracts the security guards and Adam makes it to Mia enough to say he was worried about her and that he wanted to reach her so badly but before you know it he is taken away by guards. Now, in the book this plan is much more elaborately portrayed. In the book, Adam and Kim try and find scrubs to disguise themselves and get to Mia that way. They realize that even if they could find scrubs, it was a stupid plan anyway. Adam rushes to come up with another plan. The next plan was for Adam to call the famous lead singer of a band which his own was scheduled to play with to distract everyone so he was able to see Mia that way. This still was not enough to distract them entirely because when he finally got to her, he was then again swept away by
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.
The way Adam was presented in the book was absolutely great. His character actually pulled the attention of the reader towards the novel. He had a very strong tone, which was lacking in the movie. In the movie, he seemed a little more calm, serious, and very innocent. But in the book, he was portrayed as a very emotional and a frightened fifteen year old. He kept thinking and crying about how his father died. For example he said, “I ran. I was filled with fear, saturated with it, sick with it. Oh No! Oh, God-no! No! No! No!” (101). His fear was seen throughout
O Brother Where Art Thou? The movie is set in Mississippi in the late 1930's, with The Great Depression looming in the background. A condensed plot, are that the three main characters Ulysses McGill, Pete Hogwallop and Delmar O'Donnell are convicts that break away from a chain gang. They break away because they're on a quest to find the treasure that Everett hid. As the three men go along in their literal chains, they run into a ton of problems and interesting characters like The KKK, a campaigning governor, a robber, and a blind prophet. From the research I have done, the popular opinion is that this film is loosely based on the book, "The Odyssey". The overall tone and mood is somewhat goofy, but it has some heavy topics behind it like The
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
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.
Throughout her personal essay, “Not Like the Movie,” Melisa-Maurice P. Janse van Rensburg uses pathos to demonstrate the disparity between her romanticized fantasy of becoming a nurse and the hard-hitting reality of what being a nurse entails. She draws readers in with a warm tone, nostalgically describing how her dream of becoming a nurse, spawned from an “old black-and-white movie” that she watched in her childhood (Rensburg 370). She engages readers by drawing upon her relatable experience as a typical college student in Cape Town, South Africa. However, the tone of the essay dramatically changes when she describes the life-changing experience of aiding in the aftermath of the “St. James Church massacre;” the moment when her “reality shifted
The ambiguity of the novel changes how the story is going to be interpreted by the producer, thus changing how the film is adapted. It is also evident that changes have to be made in order to appeal to the audience, get the actors who are in demand, and to comply with the restrictions of the movie industry. One of the most well-known
“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit but taste completely different,” as Stephen King, a famous author, once said. In other words, there are many differences between the book and the movie. In certain situations, books and movies are equally as important.. However, when detail is added certain things become clearer and one becomes a better choice than another.
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
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.
Her companion Kim conveys Adam to the healing facility; however he isn't permitted to see her. Only close family are allowed in the ICU. Adam gets a musician friend of his to create a distraction, and he rushes in to see Mia—but he's pulled away by guards before he can touch her lifeless
There are an indefinite amount of similarities between novels and films. Predominantly, they both tell a story. In both cases, the ability to properly tell the story is determined by how effectively the story is introduced. Clueless (1995) directed by Amy Heckerling is a prime example of a film with an effective opening that captures the audience’s attention and successfully keeps them interested and engaged throughout the entirety of the film. The opening of Clueless (1995) is significantly effective because it captivates the audience and opens with the characters, establishes the setting, and sets the tone for the entire film.
However, this is due to the fact that, the purpose of the book was to give a narrative on a crime while humanizing the murderers and the purpose of the movie was
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
Literature can, at times, have a fascinating connection with film. Whether it is a film or a piece of literature, both are written by someone that wants to leave an impact on an audience. However, movies and books have different roles. They each have different strong points wherein books give better characterization, stronger revelations, and inner conflict, but movies create a better mood with music and visuals, showing much more emotion. It's a totally different kind of experience, of course, and there are a number of differences between the book and the movie. The novel of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, for example, attempts to explain things much more explicitly than the film does, which is inevitable in a verbal medium. The movie version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, on the other hand, is essentially a visual, nonverbal experience. It avoids intellectual verbalization and reaches the viewer's subconscious in a way that is essentially poetic and philosophic. The film thus becomes a subjective experience, which hits the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just as music does, or painting. Utilizing its verbal medium, Clarke is able to explain his narrative, whereas Kubrick creates a visual and audial experience, through means of ambiguity, in which the viewer sees everything, is told nothing, and in which one cannot detect the presence of the film as one at all.