preview

Rivera Compare And Contrast

Decent Essays
Open Document

It’s common for popular books to be made into movies like The Fighter by Jack London. We all know that 90% of the time the movie will be slightly different from the book to grab all sought of audience members. Sometimes people try to enhance the conflict or put more emphasize on an event to make sure the movies a blockbuster. In the fighter the protagonist Rivera faces the same internal and external conflict in both the movie and book. Even though it has the same conflicts the way it’s presented to readers is different. Some may find the conflicts easier to understand in the reading than the movie and vice versa. The conflicts revolve around the internal pain Rivera suffers in both the movie and book. Rivera is young man who suffers internally and …show more content…

Rivera overcame the biggest fight of his life in what was a do or die for the revolution. The book ends with Rivera wining the fight but in the movie Rivera joins the revolutionary army after the fight. The whole fight scene sounded better in the book, it seemed more completive and more realistic. More realistic because Rivera was a nobody and someone who never fought a fighter like Ward or in that environment but in the movie somehow he was able to go toe to toe with him without any training. The movie put more emphasis on the Revolution conflict than the book. From Rivera’s family helping Durango to Rivera himself Rescuing Durango against all odds twice and later joining the revolutionary army himself after his big fight with Ward. The whole connection to the revolution seemed well explained in the movie as it provided a visual of the Rivera families end and beginning of Rivera’s mission. Conflicts come in all forms and exist in one way or another. Conflict is what grabs the audience’s attention, the bigger and better the conflict the more people would want to hear

Get Access