In many movies there is a book created before the movie so the movie can base it off the book. Such as unbroken, a story of a man that was never broken after being held prisoner in japan during WWII, this book was made before the movie and came out completely different. The movie only took the important parts of the book such as running in the olympics and being held prisoner. In the movie there are many key differences between the book and the movie, but they both are still very similar. There are so many books and movies like that.…
Ever read a book, and then seen the movie? The book is usually better right? That’s most likely because of the differences. The book is more descriptive most of the time. Events in the book are missing from the movie. Or the movie adds some in.…
The book is more emotional and gives lots of detail.The movie gives you a visual of what's happening and skips the critical feature.…
Stephen King, an American author and director once said, ¨Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.¨ In other words, both are meant to entertain, but they are not always appealing in the same ways. A movie based on a book can sometimes give the viewer a very different feeling than the original reading experience. The movie, A Raisin in the Sun, is much better than the book by Lorraine Hansberry, because the movie includes additional scenes that allow for further detail about the Youngers’ lives; this did not occur in the book.…
What do you do when you read a book then watch the movie on it? Do you watch it to get the picture of the story or do you watch it to compare the two? When reading a story then watching a movie you need to watch out for the similarities and differences between the two. The book Beowulf and the movie Beowulf have a few similarities and a good bit of differences. Some similarities are they both have the same characters, Beowulf cuts off Grendel’s arm, the people celebrate the death of Grendel with drinking, they hang Grendel’s arm for all to see, and Beowulf kills both Grendel and his mother. The differences deal with Grendel’s father, Beowulf’s father, where Beowulf fights Grendel, how the outcome of the plot ends, and the dragon. The similarities may not over weigh the differences but are still extremely important in comparing the book to the movie.…
Quite a number of times, Harper Lee makes good use of Scout’s narration by slowly uncovering the underlying secrets of Maycomb. For example: “Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch’s daddy defended niggers. I denied it, but told Jem.” (“To Kill a Mockingbird” 99). This small piece of the story continues with Scout questioning her father: “’Do you defend niggers, Atticus?’ I asked him that evening. ‘Of course I do. Don’t say nigger, Scout. That’s common.’” (“To Kill a Mockingbird” 99). Scout’s innocence and her having no former knowledge about what a “nigger-lover” is, helps the reader when she later questions her father. Because she is young and still needs to talk to her father to help her understand things, the common ways of her town are very clearly revealed. If Scout was older and already knew this information, Harper Lee would have a lot less creative result when she finished her novel. The young, innocent Scout makes the story flow and make sense while giving the reader plenty of background knowledge. Another example is when Walter Cunningham comes over to eat and drowns his food in syrup: “Atticus shook his head at me again. ‘But he’s gone and drowned his dinner,’ I protested. ‘He’s poured it all over-‘” (“To Kill a Mockingbird” 32). Later on, Calpurnia corrects Scout saying, “’That boy’s…
Living as one of the outcasts in a dominantly white area where the majority of white people hate you, can be hard to live with. The two stories “ To Kill A Mockingbird and “True Diary”, have a harsh setting that characters have to face. Arthur Spirit, commonly known as “Junior”, and Tom Robinson face these problems. They do seem to go through different circumstances, yet both characters different treatments from their own race. Finally, they both undergo numerous types of safety every day.…
2. In a movie you can see exactly what is going on (i.e. action, drama, romance); whereas in a book you really have to use your imagination.…
Whenever a book, novel or any other text is adapted to film there are many advantages. The Director may choose to use the text as inspiration and give the story or setting their own clever twist, they may choose to be faithful to the text and take every word literally, or they may choose to do something in between where they keep some elements and change some others.…
The story has a first person point of view, with narration by Scout. She tells what she saw, heard, and felt at the time, as well as interjecting her retrospective considerations on what happened. This has charmed millions of readers because of the juxtaposition of her young and naïve self as opposed to her now experienced and cynical personality.…
The style in which any author writes their work can reflect or reveal their attitude towards a subject. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, she expresses……(intro). Harper Lee uses characterization, motifs, and irony to show how she feels people should be treated.…
In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a well respected lawyer named Atticus Finch agrees to defend a black man named Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping a white woman. Despite being scolded by the racist Maycomb community Atticus defends Mr. Robinson because he believes in justice and strives to prove the innocence of a black man unjustly accused of this crime. This novel depicts what it was like to live in a racist white community in the 1930s during the Depression era. During this time the South was still segregated and the blacks and whites had separate facilities. The Civil Rights Movement began to move forward when a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama. Shortly after that Martin Luther King Jr. became a predominate leader in this movement and eventually his efforts reached the goal of equality. In today’s society whites and blacks are both deemed equal because of all the efforts of the civil rights movement.…
Another reason why movies based on books cannot compete with books is that very often screenwriters remake books to please of…
Visually, movies are more appealing than literature. A full page of text is tedious and dull; they automatically lock people out from accessing their story. Books have too many words so it’s hard for people to stay focus on it. Also, some books are just harder to read for younger audiences because their comprehension level isn’t that high, but if they see the movie they may be able to understand it better. An example of this is Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings books are very long and sometimes hard to understand; the movies, on the other hand are much easier to understand and a lot of fun to watch.…
Although not everyone likes to read, everyone has something they enjoy reading. For some people it is fiction, others romance, and some like non-fiction. Authors around the world spend their time editing and revising their stories over and over again so that their readers will enjoy their stories. When they are turned into movies, it is something else entirely. Mostly everyone agrees that if you read a book and then watch the movie it was based on, the book is usually better. Movie producers and directors change what happens in the story that the author spent so much time on and end up leaving important details out.…