The Minority Report Comparison
Released in the year 1956, “The Minority Report” is a science-fiction short story written by Philip K Dick. Released in the year 2002, director Steven Spielberg adapted the short story into a film and released it as Minority Report. Despite having the same central focus (free-will and determinism), there are not only some similarities but also differences in the narrative and style of both.
In both the short story and film, the author and director respectively use narrative techniques that allow the reader to comprehend and visualize the story. For example, plot, style, time and theme are all narrative techniques. The commonalities of Dick’s story and Spielberg’s film are plot (despite Spielberg’s film being a little different, the general idea is the same), …show more content…
From the narrative perspective, there lies many differences while there is minimal difference in style. The narrative differences focus on character classification and location. The style difference focuses on the format. Starting with narrative differences, the audience can see a difference in location and character classification. In “The Minority Report,” the location is set to New York City while in the film Minority Report, the locations vary because crime does not occur in one place rather all over the country thus the police officer (John Anderton) must travel to prevent crimes; also in Dick’s story, the protagonist is portrayed as old while in Spielberg’s film, he is a young man who is fit for his job. Although there are many other difference, listing all would be impossible; however, there is one other crucial difference that lies in the descriptive style. A descriptive style is one in which the author’s focus is on describing something in detail, whether that something is a character or event. Through the usage of sub-plots, Spielberg exposes Andertons’s character and past, enabling readers are to get an idea of the main
In both the short story and film, the author and director respectively use narrative techniques that allow the reader to comprehend and visualize the story. For example, plot, style, time and theme are all narrative techniques. The commonalities of Dick’s story and Spielberg’s film are plot (despite Spielberg’s film being a little different, the general idea is the same), …show more content…
From the narrative perspective, there lies many differences while there is minimal difference in style. The narrative differences focus on character classification and location. The style difference focuses on the format. Starting with narrative differences, the audience can see a difference in location and character classification. In “The Minority Report,” the location is set to New York City while in the film Minority Report, the locations vary because crime does not occur in one place rather all over the country thus the police officer (John Anderton) must travel to prevent crimes; also in Dick’s story, the protagonist is portrayed as old while in Spielberg’s film, he is a young man who is fit for his job. Although there are many other difference, listing all would be impossible; however, there is one other crucial difference that lies in the descriptive style. A descriptive style is one in which the author’s focus is on describing something in detail, whether that something is a character or event. Through the usage of sub-plots, Spielberg exposes Andertons’s character and past, enabling readers are to get an idea of the main