Movie Comparison Essay Examples

writing, people would pass down stories orally or even through paintings drawn on cave walls. Today, people still tell different kinds of stories, but in entirely new ways such as novels and movies. In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel and in the movie Big Fish directed by Tim Burton, the truth is found not in the reality of day to day life but in the fantastical stories that the characters tell in order to make meaning of their lives and to answer unanswerable questions. In Life of Pi, Pi Patel

The Great Gatsby, was a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel was later turned into a movie in 1974 and 2013. Fitzgerald chose to write the novel in the third person omniscient point of view. Fitzgerald achieved this by writing the story in Nick Carraway’s perspective of everything. There were two different casts set in the movies, many scenes were left out while others were inserted, but the directors did capture a few themes from the novel to the film. In the two different depictions

Books and movies often have at least some differences so the movie is not overly long. Usually, the book version is much better than the movie created, but this is not always the case. In the Devil's Arithmetic movie, there are many differences between the book and the movie, some for the good, and some, for the worse. The Devil's Arithmetic book, written by Jane Yolen and the movie version which came out in 1999, are both very touching and sad stories, taking place in the holocaust time period

than the movie, but in reality, it is. The Hunger Games movie is violent but not to the same extent as the book. The movie’s violent scenes were watered down and are less gruesome and bloody than the scenes in the book. Especially, this is the case in the last scene of the story where Katniss shoots Cato, the last tribute left in the games, and he falls into a pack of mutant dogs. In the movie the exact same thing happened, Katniss shot Cato the last tribute left, but instead, the movie producers

The Lovely Bones Introduction: After watching the movie and reading the book, The Lovely Bones, I have discovered that there are many similarities and differences between the two. The Lovely Bones is a novel based off of a true story. The story is about a girl, Susie Salmon, and her family. In the story Susie gets abducted and killed but like most stories and their movies, there a differences between the two. In the book The Lovely Bones, Susie Salmon was lured into a secret room or as Mr. Harvey

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD MOVIE VS. BOOK Madison Molitor 09-5-15 Mrs. Kelley 2nd Hour Like in most movie adaptations of books, there were consistent similarities between the book To Kill a Mockingbird and its movie counterpart. For example, the death of Tom Robinson is in both book and movie. Tom's death was incredibly important to the story. The movie would have been way too emotional and ooey-googey if he would have lived. However, the differences always outweigh the similarities. There are two main

by the name of Charlie. I also had the chance to view the movie based on the novel and I am shocked to say how well it interprets the book. However there are a few minor differences between the novel and its screenplay. These differences include the narration of the story and the relations between the characters. They also share some common factors but I will speak of only one, Charlie’s progression. One major difference between the movie and the book is the way in which Charlie’s life is exposed

go to the movies and say, “Oh, the book is better.” Soon I the case with the movie adaptation of And Then There Were None. In the Agatha Christie’s novel And Then There Were None as well as René Clair’s 1940’s movie version of the narrative, ten people are stranded on an island. While on the island, a murder beings seeking justice for crimes that could not be tried in court by killing the guests one by one. In the movie, these three differences take the spirit away from the book: the failure of the

Connor Doyle Comp and lit 27 April 2016 Essay #3 The paper will evaluate the difference between the book and movie blade runner. The movie was an adaptation of the book and hence the paper will try to establish whether the movie drifted apart or whether it clearly captured what is in the book. The first difference between the movie and the book is the setting and the year of production. The setting of the book is situated in San Francisco. The book was also produced in the year 1992. The film, which

Diary was published in 1999, the book brings insight to all the struggles the teenagers at Wilson High School had to face and had gone through. Soon after the Freedom Writers movie came out in the year of 2007, the film gives viewers a better understanding on how the students came to making their own book. The book and the movie have very unique differences. But I strongly believe the film is much better than the book. When I had finished watching the film, I thought it was great, but then I came to