Book vs. Film – Shutter Island
Jared Potts
Katherine Reeves
Film
17 August 2012
Book vs. Film – Shutter Island
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS Almost every movie ever made was originally a book. Just looking at how many movies that were originally books would surprise you. Although both the movie and the book contain the same storyline, there are always differences between the two. Some book and movie versions have more differences than other book and movie versions do. Some movies may even change scenes around, create new scenes, and even change a few characters. Other movies may just leave out some details and some scenes, like Shutter Island (Scorsese), a 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane, and the 2010 movie version of it from Paramount Pictures, directed by Martin Scorsese. Despite these differences, both the book and the movie have the same storyline. In late summer 1954, U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), travel to Shutter Island, which is where Ashcliff Hospital for the Criminally Insane is located. They are there to investigate an escaped patient by the name of Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer). As they are investigating her disappearance, it becomes clear to Teddy that the staff know more than what they are telling. Some patients point to the fact that the doctors may be performing experimental surgeries on patients in the island’s lighthouse, specifically the transorbital lobotomy. Teddy also believes that the doctors are trying to trap Teddy and his partner there to make them wards of the hospital. Throughout these four days, Teddy begins to have mysterious dreams involving his wife, Dolores Chanal (Michelle Williams), who died in a house fire. Some of his dreams even involve a little girl (Ruby Jerins) that Teddy does not recognize. As Teddy investigates the island, it leads him to the lighthouse where the head doctor, Dr. Crawley (Ben Kingsley), reveals to Teddy that he has been living in a fantasy world. Teddy’s real name is
Katherine Reeves
Film
17 August 2012
Book vs. Film – Shutter Island
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS Almost every movie ever made was originally a book. Just looking at how many movies that were originally books would surprise you. Although both the movie and the book contain the same storyline, there are always differences between the two. Some book and movie versions have more differences than other book and movie versions do. Some movies may even change scenes around, create new scenes, and even change a few characters. Other movies may just leave out some details and some scenes, like Shutter Island (Scorsese), a 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane, and the 2010 movie version of it from Paramount Pictures, directed by Martin Scorsese. Despite these differences, both the book and the movie have the same storyline. In late summer 1954, U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), travel to Shutter Island, which is where Ashcliff Hospital for the Criminally Insane is located. They are there to investigate an escaped patient by the name of Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer). As they are investigating her disappearance, it becomes clear to Teddy that the staff know more than what they are telling. Some patients point to the fact that the doctors may be performing experimental surgeries on patients in the island’s lighthouse, specifically the transorbital lobotomy. Teddy also believes that the doctors are trying to trap Teddy and his partner there to make them wards of the hospital. Throughout these four days, Teddy begins to have mysterious dreams involving his wife, Dolores Chanal (Michelle Williams), who died in a house fire. Some of his dreams even involve a little girl (Ruby Jerins) that Teddy does not recognize. As Teddy investigates the island, it leads him to the lighthouse where the head doctor, Dr. Crawley (Ben Kingsley), reveals to Teddy that he has been living in a fantasy world. Teddy’s real name is
Cited: Novel: Lehane, Dennis. Shutter Island. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. 1-369. Print. Film: Scorsese, Martin, dir. Shutter Island. Paramount Pictures, 2010. Film. 5 Sep 2012.