Stranger Than Fiction

Donnie Darko was a 2001 fantasy film. It contained comedy and drama. Darko was a "under the radar" type of film due to its release around September eleventh two thousand one. Since then it has grown in popularity and even inspired many up and coming directors. Donnie Darko has many avenues of interpretation. It touches in the concept of time travel through worm holes, the quantum physics of parallel universe, religion, mental illness, predestination and good vs. evil. The element of God is the theme that ties all of the plots together.

J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye is widely recognized as one of the most self-destructive novels ever written. The novel’s protagonist Holden Caulfield is known for his anti-social behavior and his self-loathing, self-isolating character in the book. Holden’s traits could widely be compared to Napoleon Dynamite the protagonist of the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite directed by Jared Hess. Napoleon is characterized by his clichéd “school nerd” behavior and of course his own self-isolating habit just like Holden. Like Holden, Napoleon tries to put down people to isolate him from others. But even though Holden and Napoleon are alike on how they assume the traits of the people they meet,

William Butler Yeats a writer and irish poet once said, “The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” In the book, “The Catcher in the Rye,” by J. D. Salinger, a boy named “Holden” is dealing with the consequences of growing up and losing innocence. The story details the importance of being a kid and going through maturity. It also shares the knowledge of learning from mistakes and growing up. Holden experiences all of these elements through loneliness and innocence throughout the book.

John Carpenter’s Halloween was released in the fall of 1978; little did he know, his independent film would change the face of slasher films as we know it. This film was responsible for ushering in what we recognize today as modern horror. With a budget of just over $300,000, Halloween was shot in 20 days. It went on to become the highest grossing independent film of all time bringing in over $60 million until 1990; however, this film was not an instant success (Halloween UnMasked, 1999). Halloween also brandished a newer type of hero - a heroine. Jamie Lee Curtis has become known as the Scream Queen as a result of this film where she paved the way for other heroines in the slasher genre.

It’s not difficult to figure out that almost every book with a movie made from the book will have some differences and some similarities. I can almost promise anyone that they will probably never find a book with a movie that is the exact same. This essay will point out some differences and similarities between the book and the movie “Ordinary People”.

The book, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, is the second book in the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley. The basic storyline consists of the main character, Scott Pilgrim, fighting for the love of his new girlfriend, Ramona Flowers. Scott is an unemployed 23 year old that plays in a band called ‘Sex Bob Omb’ from Canada. Ramona is an American, newly moved to Canada, that works for Amazon.ca.

“Is The Catcher in the Rye, as a work of literature still relevant for today’s youth?”

Twenty-eight days…six hours…forty-two minutes…twelve seconds, that is when the world will end. The movie Donnie Darko, Frank tells Donnie that the world will end in just a short time. Throughout the movie, different literary devices are experimented to give the movie a deeper meaning. This provides the audience with a hidden message that gathers the viewer’s attention while keeping them entertained. Donnie Darko is a movie that has imagery, symbolism, and foreshadowing and by merging these devices creates a film that holds their audience’s attention.

Albert Camus creates a series of characters in The Stranger whose personality traits and motivations mirror those that are overlooked by the average man. Camus develops various characters and scenarios that are considered rude and unpleasant, but because it has become common, society accepts it as norms. Camus incorporates atrocious personality traits of the characters, variety, consistency, and everyone’s fate through the creation of the characters.

A Stranger Among Us is a movie that displays many aspects of ethnicity, and how many different groups of people interact and adapt to each other’s difference. There is a murder and a detective named Emily Eden has to place herself into a Jewish community to help solve this murder. In the film there is several groups displayed and many different perspectives, along with an ethnic neighborhood and lots of learning about the Hasidic culture, and Detective Eden made some crucial mistakes in unraveling the murder. Also, this is a movie that is beneficial to everyone in our class.

Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 British-French-American horror comedy film directed by Edgar Wright. Throughout the movie many characters are introduced which are, Shaun of Shaun, Ed, Liz, Pete, David and Diana, Parents Barbara and Phillip and Zombies. Shaun is an electronics store manager whose life is going nowhere. Shaun is not very unique but gets placed in unique situations throughout the movie. He has a mission he must accomplish. Ed is Shaun best friend, and his partner, he acts as a helper making sure Shaun achieves his goal. Liz is Shaun ex who Shaun is still in love with. Pete is Shaun co-worker .David and Diana are Liz friends who tag along and helped throughout the journey.

When viewing any postmodern cinema, it can be difficult to determine which is actual reality. In both films, it is questionable which reality is in fact real. In Stranger than Fiction, one possible reality is that Harold is a product of the book that is written by the famous author Karen Eiffel. It begins one day when he starts hearing her narrate various details of his life. Such as, when Harold was counting the number of strokes while brushing his teeth. He would look up and try to find out where the voice was coming from. “...alright, who just said that Harold counted brush strokes?” (Harold, Stranger than Fiction) Later he found himself screaming in public at the bus stop after Karen had narrated his imminent death “…Why? Why my death?” (Harold. Stranger than Fiction) Was she the author of his life, or was he just hearing voices in his head? Perhaps he had a nervous breakdown or had developed schizophrenia? It is also difficult to tell what the actual reality in Play. It appeared

How do you understand a stranger? How do you judge their actions? In Albert Camus’s existentialist text, The Stranger, the protagonist is a stranger to all but himself and because of his character, society finds Meursault guilty of being an incomprehensible and dangerous alien. The court that judges Meursault ignorantly sentences him to death. However, the first person perspective narrative allows the reader a glimpse into his mind, giving them a chance to understand his character and the actions that inevitably leads him to the guillotine. Although difficult to interpret, Meursault’s character, as it develops throughout his ‘normal’ life, can be expressed through more familiar medias. The main aspects of Meursault’s character — his

In The Stranger, Albert Camus allows the main character to tell the story in order to give the reader an experience of his own. Obviously, with a novel also comes language, which Camus incorporates cleverly as a way to indirectly illustrate Meursault’s thoughts about certain situations. Although the novel represents a postmodern setting, the author shifts the overall meaning. In The Stranger, Camus applies a unique literary style as a power that deflects blame from Meursault, the antiheroic character. In order to disclaim the fault of Meursault, Camus incorporates several instances in which he leaves a greater sense of authority to nonliving objects, while further drawing attention away from the main character. Based on the implication of

The love story between two different teenagers that come from completely different worlds is the most remarkable. The Notebook is about two young teenagers who fell head over heels with each other. They got separated by Allie’s upper-class parents who insist that Noah isn’t right for her. But that obstacle didn’t stop these two young lovers from being together even if it took years. This beautiful tale has a special meaning to an older gentleman who regularly reads the timeless love story to his aging wife to help her remember what they went through and that the story that he’s reading to her was their love story. The story he reads follows two young