The Pit and the Pendulum: Movie vs. Book
The movie "The pit and the Pendulum" was nothing at all like the book. The movie started out as a man walked along the ocean to enter a huge castle. His sister had moved there when she married Dom Madena, but now she was dead. The castle was used to torture Catholics during the Inquisition. Dom Madena believes that the castle has an atmosphere of torture thick with death, and that led to the death of his sister. The doctor said she died of fright. They buried her in a tomb below the castle.
As child Dom Madena saw his father torture and kill his father's brother and his own wife. He accused them of adultery. His father didn't torture his mother to death, he buried her alive. Dom Madena
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Nicholas seized him and put him on table below a razor sharp pendulum. Right as it was cutting his shirt two servants busted in and threw Nicholas into the pit with the doctor and saved him.
This movie, I think anyway, was a very poor interpretation of the short story. In the story none every commits adultery or is buried alive. A man, or woman for all I know, was stuck in a dungeon which he was tortured in many ways.
None died in the book, but in the movie three people died. The book had one character where the movie had seven or eight. The story line in the book of a suffering catholic being tortured to death was altered to make a script for a movie. The only likeness was when the two men were almost killed by the falling pendulum, but saved at the last minute either by others or themselves. In the end of the book the walls of iron are heated and start to push together. But right before the person dies a French general grabs him because Toledo was just taken by the French.
The pit in the book was a hole in the middle of the cell. The captive almost fell in it when the room was pitch black. When the walls were caving in he could of chose the pit or the hot iron walls. The pit is supposed to be the ultimate death in the dungeon and the captive doesn't want to die in it.
The movie and the story were so different that if I watched the movie and read the story
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The first difference that caught my eye was how there was no cat, in the book there was a cat named, Sammie, and Sammie always got stuck in one of Billy’s traps. But in the movie
The narrator in this torture chamber is submitted to several kinds of traps and torments: the pit, the rats and the closing walls. He tries to escape from each one of these but every time he succeeds he finds himself in a worse situation than he was before. Inside the chamber he is deprived of the sense of sight so at first he cannot know where he is or what dangers surround him. His will however
Choose a character out of the novel; describe the characters personality and placement in the novel.
The biggest similarity between the book, and the movie is the theme. The theme in both the book, and the
very big similarity. In my opinion, the movie was better because you could actually see whats going on,
The novel and the movie share many similarities.The book and the novel share the same problems. A example johnny and pony run away since johnny killed bob.In both johnny gets injured badly and dies.
When we saw the movie and the book and saw the movie, there were a couple of thing that they did not mention or did in the movie. In the movie they cut out some thing from the book. They did not really put everything they said in the book into the movie. They also did not really get some people personal feature. Here are something that were different from the movie, than what it said from the book.
Finally there are lots of differences between the book and the movie. They also show that the movie was a lot weaker then then the book. I can see the movies aren't always better than the books. The books go more into detail than the movie. I enjoined the movie because it is more visual. The book was a little
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There are other significant similarities between the movie and the book, so if I overlooked or forgot any extremely crucial points, forgive me.
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character that shows us all that is good in the book and what a true