Compare And Contrast The Minority Report

The Minority Report film came out in 2002 and was directed by Steven Spielberg. The story “The Minority Report” was a 1956 science fiction short story by Philip k. Dick. Both the film and the story take place in the future. However, there are noticeable differences between the original story and its film adaption, as big as excluding Dick’s cold War anxieties and small changing the location and several characters these changes make the story more relate-able to a modern audience. The biggest difference is that the original story was written to reflect the Cold War anxieties of author Philip K. Dick. In the story, Dick questioned the relationship between authoritarianism and individual autonomy. In many tales’ business with understanding of future events, “The Minority Report”
In the story Anderton and Lisa are exiled to a space colony after Kaplan’s murder, perhaps proving the warrant of Dick’s Cold War anxieties. However, as the movie finishes with john and Lara reunited after the conspiracy’s resolution, they are expecting a second child. Spielberg then, made the story more palatable to modern audience that want happy endings. Lastly, that the story goes from New York to instead, Washington DC shows a theme of the early decade to place similar stories of kind in DC area. Because the center of the country and government is there, fears are heightened and strakes raised, leaving the modern audience more into the film. The difference the film adaption od The Minority Report takes made it more relate able to modern audiences. Film adaptions often takes this stance, changing the content od older stories to fit new audiences, or changing character to match trends and commonalities that exist at the time they come out. We see this in the film adaption of The Minority Report, and the effect made the movie more palatable to audiences who did not experience the fears, the lifestyle, or the anxieties of the Cold War