The Things They Carried Out Dialogue

The PBS article on film adaptation discusses the challenges of adopting a novel into a film and the changes film makers must make. Most of these novels that are being read in schools are being made into movies. In these movies though, the narrator disappears in the movies which is a main factor of a book because they would show many characteristics about a character. The great thing about movies is that instead of a narrator, everybody can see the emotions on the characters faces and explains what the character goes through. For example, in the film “The Pedestrian” instead of having a narrator the creator of the film added another character in to show their feeling and emotions and others(Bollinger). Film is limited in many aspects as in

I much preferred the movie version to the novel. For me, author William Kennedy’s style of writing is needlessly vague and difficult to follow, yet he did a wonderful job adapting

There are many similarities between the book and the film Speak. For example, in both the film and the novel, the main character, Melinda has a bedroom that is very “childish”, as described in the novel. The reason it was included in the film along with the novel is because of its significant

Chris has a selective group of friends that he really enjoys himself with. When one of

Chris’s family drives him to leave and run away from his

For example, the imagery throughout the book is detailed and really lets you dive into the story and see through Marion’s eyes. An example of this is, “When released into the air through the showerlike nozzles of a gas chamber, it turned into a vapor that brought death within fifteen minutes. After the gas had dissipated, the Auschwitz camp attendants, who were usually prisoners themselves, salvaged the gold from the teeth of the dead…” (66). This description of what happened to the prisoners, and what happened after was very detailed, as if it happened only a day ago and someone was describing it. I also like the dialogue in Four Perfect Pebbles. An example of good dialogue in Four Perfect Pebbles is, “‘Toten raus!’ (‘Out with the dead!’)” (77). I like this dialogue because it shows the translation of what Toten raus means, because Marion understands it. Another example of good dialogue in Four Perfect Pebbles is, “They spoke roughly in a strange accent, saying over and over again a word that sounded like the German for ‘watch,’ ‘Uhr, Uhr!’” (82). This is good dialogue because Marion has no idea what the soldiers are saying. It’s a foreign language. So she just says what it sounds like they’re saying, but gives no translation. This puts you in Marion’s situation, wondering “What are they saying that sounds like ‘Uhr,

Whenever books are adapted for film, changes inevitably have to be made. The medium of film offers several advantages and disadvantages over the book: it is not as adept at exploring the inner workings of people - it cannot explore their minds so easily; however, the added visual and audio capabilities of film open whole new areas of the imagination which, in the hands of a competent writer-director, can more than compensate.

Chris had some really good friendships with people, he got to know who they were, their stories, then he leaves without telling most of the people he meets. “These are what Alex used to drink, he used to sit right there at the end of the bar and tell us these amazing stories of his travels. He could talk for hours. A lot of folks here in town got pretty attached to old Alex” W Westerberg. People got attached to Chris, talked with him for hours

The last thing is the tone of his voice an example is his voice drops a view octaves because he is getting nervous and trying to think of something to say. It is better in the movie because you can hear how he actually feels and in the book you are. Just listening to another person talk. Another way to say it is maybe it should be said in a man's voice to make it more

There are many publishers in the world who decide to take their work and turn it into films. Although many viewers may think the film should be exactly like the book, they are not. In both novel and book there are going to be slight differences. The moral of both novel and book is the same; however, their narrators are different. The character may act a certain way as one are reading, then act another way as one watch the film.

" It was a different story with Alex. He was the hardest worker I've seen. Didn't matter what it was, he'd do it." (pg 18) Chris was that type of person that wanted to finish school and travel the world. " I think I'm going to disappear for a while."

I like the book better than the movie. I like the book better because I could decide what a scene would look like. For example, in the book, it describes True Son. It says, “The boy wore a brand-new calico hunting shirt. It covered the boy’s upper parts and halfway down his leggings. His hair was black and his face and arms brown as an Indian, but you couldn’t mistake the English cast of his features.” I could make up in my mind how I wanted True Son to look. In the movie, I saw what was on the screen, and couldn’t make the scene look how I wanted it

When watching the film, the first difference the viewer can see between the book and the movie is how the characters are portrayed. A notable example would be Carlson. In the film,

Stephen King once said, Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.” By using great dialogue it helps develop descriptive thoughts and mood in the reader's mind and helps them envision what the author was visioning. In the story’s Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers and Canyons by Gary Paulsen use dialogue to develop the mood of the story.

In recent years, it has become popular for many of America's great literary masterpieces to be adapted into film versions. As easy a task as it may sound, there are many problems that can arise from trying to adapt a book into a movie, being that the written word is what makes the novel a literary work of art. Many times, it is hard to express the written word on camera because the words that express so much action and feeling can not always be expressed the same way through pictures and acting. One example of this can be found in the comparison of Ken Kesey's novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the film version directed in 1975 by Milos Forman.