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Of Mice And Men Film Analysis

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Of Mice and Men (1992) Movie Review Of Mice and Men is an action-packed, but peaceful film and novella by John Steinbeck. The movie has been made as an interpretation by Gary Sinise, who is the director and one of the main characters. Of Mice and Men is about George and Lennie (Gary Sinise, John Malkovich) who are very close friends. George is a short and smart man. On the other hand, Lennie is a big man who is mindless. Unlike the book, the movie is very visual with lots of sounds and exciting twists. Since I have read the novella I didn’t really care that much for the movie because I knew what was going to happen at the end. The one thing I was hoping for was that there was a new scene or new storyline. There wasn’t really a new …show more content…

The characters in the movie play the role very well. Gary Sinise (George) plays George very well in the movie. He portrays George to be a stubborn short man that always seems to be angry at first. At the beginning that’s what we thought. But as in the book George changes to become kinder. That also occurs in the movie. Lennie acts similar to what occurs in the book. The movie makes the characters sound and acts similarly on purpose. Lennie in the book is not smart at all. In the movie, though he acts a little dumb because of his voice. But they both act the same if you add the same voice of the actor. This connects to sound and how sound can affect how people think of a character because of their voice. Curley’s wife does not really portray the character in the book. I believe that this has to do with the sound of each character which can change your opinion about a character like Lennie and Curley’s wife. Overall she acts more loving in the movie than what is shown in the book. Curley himself acts that same in the book and in the movie. He is still the same person that is mean and is always meant to everyone including his wife. Slim is also the same. In the book, he is very chill and calm. Same in the movie. In the movie, he is very chill. But in the movie, he does not seem more powerful at all than what was portrayed in the book. In the book, he is called the prince of the ranch, but in the movie, he is still powerful but it is not shown very

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