The Lovely Bones Movie Vs Book

Peter Jackson’s 2009 film, The Lovely Bones, is based off of the New York Times bestseller novel written by Alice Sebold. Both the book and the movie adaptation tell the story of a young, 14-year-old girl named Susie Salmon who is brutally murdered by her neighbor. In both versions, Susie narrates her story from the place between Heaven and Earth, the “in-between,” showing the lives of her family and friends and how each of their lives have changed since her murder. However, the film adaptation and the original novel differ in the sense of the main character focalization throughout, the graphic explanatory to visual extent, and the relationship between the mother and father.

The story called The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is about a girl named Susie who had gotten raped and killed at the age of 14. Throughout the story it was about life after Susie with her immediate family like her mother Abagail, her father Jack, and her younger sister Lindsey and how they adjust to life after Susie, as well as the effects of Susie’s life in heaven being away from her family. The death of Susie had a bad impact on her immediate family psychologically and emotionally and each of the character’s grieving process of susie’s death was different . With Abigail the death of Susie causes for her to be denial of the death and become depressed as well. Jack goes through denial with Susie’s death and as the story goes on he comes

The Lovely Bones was originally a book but then was later on made into a movie. It’s set in the 1970’s. It is about the murder of Susie Salmon. How the family and the people around them deal with her murder, it also shows how Susie deals with it.

The unfortunate circumstances that the Salmon family went through were depressing and a shock to everyone, but, it made everyone look at their lives and what was truly important to them. In the novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, Susie, Buckley, and Lindsey think that they will be together forever, but after Susie is killed and no one knows what happened to her everyone decides to respond in a different way. Some violent, some illegal and some are just out of the protection of the family. But, Jack Salmon believes that Mr. Harvey is Susie’s killer and has put it at the top of his priorities to prove it. Their family did not only have to go through the loss of a loved one but after Susie’s Death they stopped communicating with one another,

The stage production of Into the Woods is better than the movie. The narrator, the tone, and the audience are all things in the play production that come together to make a better product. While the stage version of Into the Woods is better the movie production is still good.

The Lovely Bones takes place in a small town near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The plot begins December 6, 1973 with the rape and murder of Susie Salmon. As Susie herself says, “It was still back when people believed things like that didn’t happen.” (Sebold 1) During the 1970s most serial killers and rape were unheard of. The fact that many people weren’t aware led to the very criminals living amongst them. Awareness to these crimes started to rise with the feminist movement and technology. The inspiration to the setting in this novel also comes from where the Sebold herself grew up. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and she called it Nowhere, USA. She lived in some look-alike homes when she was an adult and made the same design for the setting in The Lovely Bones.

“The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself” -Peter Jackson.

There are many movies based on books, where scenes were either altered slightly or changed completely. Movie directors often change scenes from the novel in order to make the final production more interesting, to create a story they perceived from the novel, or to compensate from leaving a particular important scene out. In which director Peter Jackson, undertook when producing the movie, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, on a particular scene of the novel, chapter seven, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s, The Hobbit. Chapter seven, “Queer Lodgings,” was when the dwarves and Bilbo meet Beorn, the “someone” Gandalf speaks of that could help them gain supplies after losing their provisions to the goblins. Beorn was said to be a skin changer that constructed

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The exciting as well as renowned novel, The Hound of The Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has its contrasts with the 2002 BBC feature. Many differences were made to the film version, including changes to the characters and the pacing. The quick pacing had a dramatic negative effect on the film, because it made it harder to bond with characters, deleted important plot points, and took away from suspense. The fast pace of the movie made it harder to understand and bond with the characters.

One difference between the book and the movie is Harrison’s attitude when he enters the newsroom or theatre. In the book Harrison had no idea that he was going to be shot down by the Handicapper General. Harrison acted cocky and didn’t have a plan when he entered the newsroom. However in the movie, Harrison knew that he was sacrificing himself when he entered the theatre. The movie had Harrison prove that everybody could rise up against the Handicapper general whereas the book showed that only Harrison could revolt.

The Hound Of Baskerville movie and book, written by two different authors but still have the same suspense-filled storyline. The book was written by Arthur Conan Doyle-- the movie directed by Jeremy Brett. Both help visualizes and shows the outlook of the second in line to the best detective in the world, Sherlock Holmes and his patient sidekick Dr. Watson, Solve a one of a kind mystery. They both shared many similarities and differences in the five major elements of fiction.

What makes a good adaptation from book to film? Is it how they made it easier for people who have never read the book to understand the story? Is it about how much they cut from the original material and added to the film? Or could it be based how many necessary changes they had made to the film from the book? All of these were shown in the 2012 movie the Hunger Games, so in this paper I will be going over how the Hunger Games was a successful adaption from the book.

The movie “Maleficent” is a recent production by Disney in which the aspects of the classic fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty” are retold from the perspective of the antagonist, the evil witch. In this review I will discuss several aspects of “Maleficent” including its plot, family friendliness, and overall success. The plot of “Maleficent” is in many ways similar to the original fairy tale, but contrasts sharply in perspective and chronology. The story is told through a narrator and can be seen in many ways similar to the original fairy tale but contrasts sharply in perspective and chronology.

III. Overview of the Book/Film Plot (internal or external conflicts) The Lovely Bones is about a girl named Susie Salmon, a 14-year-old girl who was raped and murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey. When her family learns of what happened they grieve for a long time. The person who grieves the most is Susie's dad. He goes on a rampage trying to find and prove that Mr. Harvey is the one who committed the crime. He ends up going to the emergency room after going to the cornfield to see if George Harvey was there. His family is notified and his wife comes to see how he is and to hear what