The Accidental Tourist Movie And Book Comparison Essay

In this paper, I am going to be comparing and contrasting the movie version and the novel entitled “The Accidental Tourist.” First, when one begins to read the book, they will notice that the opening scene takes place in a car on a rainy day. During this pivotal scene Sarah Leary asks Macon if he remembered what he said to a comment Sarah had said. She said “’I said to you the other day, I said, ‘Macon, now that Ethan’s dead I sometimes wonder if there’s any point to life.’ Do you remember what you answered?’ ‘Well not offhand,’ Macon said. ‘You said, ‘Honey, to tell the truth, it never seemed to me there was all that much point to begin with.’ Those were your exact words.’” Then she later tells Macon she wants a divorce. But, when one watches the movie, they would be deceived in two ways. First, Macon, the main character, is flying in an airplane and a man named Lucas Loomis, who does not appear until much later in the book, is with him. Secondly, if you wait a little while, you would see that Sarah and Macon are at home when they have the conversation that leads to Sarah’s divorce announcement. When I saw that I was hoping this was no indication of how the rest of the movie was going to be. But it was. Although the movie was faithful to the novel in many
For instance, the Learys have this thing for not answering the phone when it rings. In the movie, the Learys let it ring. Also, they have sort of a tradition of playing “Vaccination” after supper. While Macon was training Edward, Muriel said to cluck when he does what he is supposed to do. The Learys, Charles, Porter and Rose, pick up on that and begin to cluck, also. The movie’s portrayal of Julian is the way I pictured him, sort of skinny, and medium height. His appearance is very well groomed and nicely dressed. Aside from the technicalities I mentioned earlier, I think it was a pretty good