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    both the book and movie‚ of The Handmaid´s Tale made changes for their own benefit? The Handmaid´s Tale book by the Canadian Margaret Atwood is a dystopian novel‚ science fiction first published in 1985. It won so many prizes such as the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Nebula Award‚ among others‚ that this novel was adapted to the big screen. The movie adaptation‚ named the same as the book‚ was directed by Volker Schlondorff and made in 1990. As every book with its corresponding movie adaptation

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    bestselling novel and movie‚ The Help‚ many stories is told about what it is like to be a working colored maid for a white family. Skeeter Phelan‚ a white daughter of a rich white family‚ seems to be the only one who thinks the point of view of the maids should be shared. Skeeter decides to interview these maids and turn their tragic‚ funny‚ worth sharing stories to the public.The hard times these maids go through is very realistic and dramatically shown in both the movie and the book. Although‚ they both

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    Bruno’s. This story is both a tragic and extremely depressing book and a movie called The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas. The book and movie were both absolutely fantastic and were very much alike‚ but they still had some differences. The few differences between the movie and the book was‚ the ending of the book and movie‚ the perspective in which they were both told in‚ One of the major differences between the book and movie is the ending of each of them. The endings are different in one

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    Outsiders book was published by S.E. Hinton. Also in 1983‚ The Outsiders movie was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The book is fiction; specifically young adult fiction. The book and the movie were very different from one another. The book was a lot better in giving more details and getting to know what Ponyboy is thinking. It was easier to be able to comprehend what was going on and why the characters were making those decisions. One difference from the movie and the book is that‚ in the book‚ Dally

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    Robert F. Kennedy. This book contains Kennedy’s thoughts about the Cuban Missile Crisis and the actions that he and the rest of the United States cabinet took to prevent a nuclear disaster and World War III. There is also a movie based on the book starring Kevin Costner. Most movies that are based on books are often exceeding inaccurate‚ due to Hollywood directors trying to "spice up" the movie. However‚ Thirteen Days is one of the few movies that are not wildly inaccurate. The movie contains several similarities

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    Favor Throughout time‚ there have been countless movies that began as books. Authors create compelling stories; which captivate one type of audience‚ those who read. These books turn into best sellers‚ which in turn are purchased for production purposes. Once written art is turned into a movie‚ it can grasp the attention of an entire world instead. During the process of transforming a bestselling novel into a box office hit movie‚ sacrifices in the story must be made. To provide an analysis of changes

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    The film ran pretty close to the actual book. The dialogues for the most part were exactly the same and the scenes in the movies seemed to fit those of the book very well. Many of the differences were very minor and insignificant. There were a handful of differences that are worth noting however. Many of them are scenes left out of the movie that occurred in the book. A few times something is switched around. I had a list of differences from the film that spanned 3 pages but I selected a few of the

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    Quiet on the Western Front‚ even though both novel and movie portray the main idea‚ the movie version lacks effective emotions and descriptive details as the novel abounds in them. Using the main universal truth of dehumanization of war‚ Remarque presents to us the compelling story of Paul Baumer‚ who goes through the most traumatic experience in life as he loses all his dearest friends and becomes estranged to his past. Both the novel and movie successfully bring out the theme of the terrible brutality

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    In the book Huckleberry Finn we had read an adventure of a little boy making his way down the river. Now in the movie somethings are very different from the book. They leave out some parts that were major to the book. However you can’t put everything in a movie or the movie would be too long. Here are somethings that I had noticed that were different in the movie than the book. To start off the movie skipped over talking about how the Widow Douglas and old Miss Watson was always picking on him

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    many differences and similarities. The three similar events happened in the book‚ and movie emerged when Old Major gave a speech to the farm animals‚ Mr. Jones left without proper care for the animals’‚ additionally Napoleon take the puppies. The differences apparent throughout the movie two boys harassing the animals‚ Jessie attacked Mr. Jones‚ also the death of Napoleon during the movie. These events exist in the book Old Major buried in the orchard‚ the downfall of the windmill‚ finally how Napoleon

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