Looking for Alibrandi
Good after noon fellow students and teachers I am here to talk to you about my choice of two texts that I have chosen that are related to adaptation. The two texts I have chosen are the novel looking for alibrandi by Melina Marchetta and the film Shawshank redemption by Frank Darabont.
Adaptation is a movement from a previous state to a new state which will cause people to react differently depending on what the change is. Adaptation is expressed throughout life in many different aspects and formats although not all adaptations are positive. There both negative and positive adaptations in the novel and film.
The negative adaptation in shawshank redemption is when brooks the kind helpful prison librarian who is released into the “free world” after living in prison for 50 years inside shawshank walls. When Brooks was released he was confused in the new world and ironically he wanted to return back to prison, he was institutionalised. The scene continues in a first person voice of Reds voice reading out the letter from Brooks, Brooks explain to his friends “I don’t think ill stay” was a implication he was about to commit suicide. As the scene continues Dorabont shows us with the camera brooks ascending his chair then the table in a close up shot, to begin to reach up and leave his final mark on the supporting beam in his apartment carveing “brooks was hear”. The camera then shows the carvings falling from the beam to his feet and then a close shot of brooks focused on the carvings and looking through the vertical decorated bars symbolising he I still trapped in his own gaol. Brooks then hang himself leaving a solemn atmosphere to the film by the low, based filled, non diagetic sounds with the dark almost monotone colours.
In the novel looking for alibrandi John Barton is another person who fails to adapt to the stress and pressure of the modern world.
Looking for Alibrand is a novel that mostly deals with the emotional change. Through many of the characters
Adaptation is a movement from a previous state to a new state which will cause people to react differently depending on what the change is. Adaptation is expressed throughout life in many different aspects and formats although not all adaptations are positive. There both negative and positive adaptations in the novel and film.
The negative adaptation in shawshank redemption is when brooks the kind helpful prison librarian who is released into the “free world” after living in prison for 50 years inside shawshank walls. When Brooks was released he was confused in the new world and ironically he wanted to return back to prison, he was institutionalised. The scene continues in a first person voice of Reds voice reading out the letter from Brooks, Brooks explain to his friends “I don’t think ill stay” was a implication he was about to commit suicide. As the scene continues Dorabont shows us with the camera brooks ascending his chair then the table in a close up shot, to begin to reach up and leave his final mark on the supporting beam in his apartment carveing “brooks was hear”. The camera then shows the carvings falling from the beam to his feet and then a close shot of brooks focused on the carvings and looking through the vertical decorated bars symbolising he I still trapped in his own gaol. Brooks then hang himself leaving a solemn atmosphere to the film by the low, based filled, non diagetic sounds with the dark almost monotone colours.
In the novel looking for alibrandi John Barton is another person who fails to adapt to the stress and pressure of the modern world.
Looking for Alibrand is a novel that mostly deals with the emotional change. Through many of the characters