Rikki Tikki Tavi’s great adventure
Rikki Tikki the mongoose that has nothing to fear has many similarities in it’s book and the movie. A mongoose is a very sociable animal in the book/movie and in real life too. The Title of the mongooses book is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the author is Rudyard Kipling. The movie Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is found on Vimeo Rikki-Tikki-Tavi video clip on Vimeo.The producer of the movie kept the true version of the story to the concept. The similarities in the book and movie are so close together with a few distinguished differences,but nobody could straighten them apart through differences. The Movie is very similar to the book through the characters, setting, and the conflict through the characters.
The first similarity between the movie and the book is the characters and what they do in it. The snakes are the first people that are the same, especially Nag and Nagaina. They do the same strike, or at least try to strike, Rikki Tikki when they first saw him. The brave Rikki Tikki asks Darzee “But I am a stranger here, who is Nag?” Then Nag rises from the ground, then Nagaina tries to strike Tikki from behind but fails before Darzee’s wife warns him.(Kipling pg. 146) The second person that is the same is Darzee, or the singing bird. Darzee in both the book and the movie sang through everything even when Rikki Tikki had “died”. He even sang a song when they thought Rikki had died, “So he sang a very mournful song that he made up on the spur of the
As there are various similarities, there are differences as well. One being that in the book Rikki-tikki-tavi and Nag duel when they initially meet with the help of Nagaina(Book). This scene helps build up the rivalry of the snakes and Rikki-tikki. The scene provides a simpler way to see why Nag and Nagaina dislike the mongoose, along with other lines. “When the house is emptied of people, he (Rikki-tikki) will have to go away and the garden will be ours again.” (Kipling 150) Nag and Nagaina want power. Before Rikki-tikki was found and taken to live in the bungalow, the snakes had the animals bowing down to them. In the movie there was no duel and the understanding of the rivalry is gone. Rikki-tikki and the snakes hold a lousy relation, the snakes try to kill his family in order to get rid of him. Without the image of the creatures hostility the snakes
The story Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling is about the rivalry between Rikki, a small mongoose and Nag and Nagaina, two king cobras. A giant wave flushes Rikki out from his warm, cozy den and leaves him on the river bank near Teddy’s family’s garden. Rikki is taken in and cared for, by Teddy’s family. While exploring the garden he confronts two king cobras Nag and Nagaina. If Rikki does not kill the snakes, the garden creatures will fall prey to the cobras! This exciting story also became a motion picture movie. The story and the movie are similar in plot but contain some notable differences, including where Rikki finds Teddy in the bath and that Nagaina waits for one of
There are also many similarities, or else it wouldn't be The Chronicles of Narnia. The similarities and differences can be due to artistic differences for instance how one person interprets something may not be how another interprets it, budget reasonings, or it may just simply have to do with a time line of the filming. Seeing as a majority of films are not made by the author of the book, it can be extremely hard for a director and movie writer to completely capture the book on film. Another thing that could make it hard to transcribe the book to film is
Many people assume that the book and movie of the same story are always very similar, but they are incorrect. In my comparison of the short story Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling and the movie of Rikki-tikki-tavi, I found them to be rather different. There were many minor differences, but the three main topics in the short story that clearly differentiate it from the movie are the setting, the character traits, and the use of humor.
The plot and the setting of book and movie are very similar. There was a lot of thins borrowed from the book, but there was a lot changed as well. The movie followed the plot of book very closely and portrayed the setting of the book very well. A lot of the dialogue was borrowed and spoken directly as it was in the book.
Rikki was found by a river soaking wet by Teddy, a boy who wanted to have a funeral for him, and his family. In both the story and movie he was describe cold and wet; also he was found in the dirt. The family decided to take him home to warm him up and get him something to eat. During the movie the big man, Teddy’s dad, picked Rikki up at the river holding him with his nose at the man’s finger tips, and Rikki’s tail passed his wrist. While in the story it is stated “the big man picked him up between finger and thumb.”( Kipling pg.143) there is a difference between the story and the movie. While the movie isn’t an exact replica there still are a lot of similarities. When the family decided to bring Rikki-Tikki in to dry the movie and story have a difference. The story said that “They wrapped him in cotton, and warmed him over a little fire.” (Kipling 143). Although the movie was close it showed Rikki in the cotton but he wasn’t placed over a small fire. Similarities are plentiful in the movie, but there are some differences to look up to.
Both share the same plot, and there are very little differences between the two. These are a few of the differences that I was able to notice between the book and the movie. There are several others throughout the story, but they are all just as minute and in the end they have no effect on the outcome of the story. Overall, I was very impressed with the movie and it was very true to the book. I have seen my share of movies that were adaptations from books that did not do the book justice, but this one is almost exactly like the book, so it was very
There are also many similarities between the book and the movie as well. One would be the theme of both the movie and the book which is that greed causes people to do horrible things. For example, when Juana tried to throw Kino’s pearl into the ocean, Kino tore the pearl back from her and beat her. Another thing the book and the movie have in common is that Coyotito dies in the end. This is critical because when Coyotito dies that is when Kino realizes the evil of the pearl and that he must get rid of it. It
The plot in the movie and the book had some differences along the way. (Kipling 144) The story talks about how Rikki-Tikki-Tavi put his nose into the ink and burnt his nose on the father’s cigar, but these scenes were never mentioned in the movie. (Movie)(Kipling 144) In the movie, it shows how they find Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and they save him, then it shows how he goes to sleep with Teddy the boy but in the story, it has those two scenes reversed. (Kipling 144) According to the story it says that Rikki-Tikki-Tavi spent the whole day outside wandering around, although those scenes had never been played in the movie. (Kipling 144) In the story of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi it says “ Rikki-tikki liked
The characters in the book and the movie are a lot alike. Such as the main character, and the protagonist, Rikki-Tikki. Rikki-Tikki was the brave mongoose that killed Nag. In both the book and the movie Rikki-Tikki was known as the courageous, fearless and heroic mongoose. Rikki-Tikki was strong when he was face to face against the Cobras. In the text it states, “He was
The biggest similarity between the book, and the movie is the theme. The theme in both the book, and the
First the one way the book and the movie are similar is billy wants to get the dogs. He will do anything to get them. Billy has saved money for two years so he can get the dogs. When his grandpa order the dogs for billy he couldn't wait to get them. So he traveled to tahlequah in the middle of the night so he can go get them. Also another way they are similar is that billys family is very important to him. Billy also had extra money after he bought the dogs so he got some presents for his
In the story, "Rikki Tikki Tavi," a mongoose, Rikki Tikki Tavi, single-handedly fights with a cobra couple, while getting help from a group of new friends. One day, while he was in the wild, he was caught up with the flood, that washed him away from his burrow, away from his mother and father. An English family found him on the road, and decided to see if he was still alive. They brought him to their bungalow, so he could rest and stay in a comfortable place. Although, as mongooses are extremely curious, Rikki Tikki, decided to wander around the area, and found himself caught in a sticky situation.
To begin with, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a brave mongoose and will do anything to protect his family. For example, the author states, “Tricked! Tricked! Tricked! Rikk-tck-tck!” chuckled Rikki-tikki. “The boy is safe, and it was I—I—I—that caught Nag by the hood last night in the bathroom” (para 96). Rikki risked his life to distract Nagaina by beckoning her away
As the result, the main similarities or differences in the movie and book of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi are how the mother finds Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in the book and the father finds him in