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    I Am Legend: Book vs Movie

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    by author Richard Matheson coming up with the storyline and writing the original book version. While Richard Matheson’s post-apocalyptic science fiction book‚ I Am Legend‚ and Francis Lawrence’s post-apocalyptic science fiction movie‚ I Am Legend‚ both have similarities and differences‚ in the end‚ the original book version prevails mainly because the movie version alters the original storyline too much. In the movie‚ Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible

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    from a child to a mature person. And about a person who is our last hope of survival. There is a movie and the book and I think the book is better than the movie. There are many crucial elements to the book Ender’s Game. Some are the fact that it travels between Ender and Valentine. Another one is when the book give out more detail on what ender did and how he met his friends at battle school. The book carries a lot more details in it‚ like it described what happened after the war. These are important

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    Very few good books translate successfully to a good movie adaptation and most people who both read Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card and watched the subsequent movie adaptation count Ender’s Game among the many rather than the few book to film adaptations. Almost every character changedt from the book to the movie in regards to either personality‚ physical appearance‚ or their given amount of screen time. The plot changed through added romances and the removal of concepts that failed to translate

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    2012 Little Women – A Literary Comparison of Movie and Book Little Women” written by Louisa May Alcott in 1868 has been recreated in four television series‚ four made for TV movies‚ and five feature length movies since 1918. The most recent version made in 1994 featuring such well known actresses as Wynona Ryder as the beloved Jo‚ and Susan Sarandon as Marmee. Rarely does a reader find satisfaction with a movie after reading the book‚ as the book most always brings us more depth into the lives

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    Why 'Beowulf?'

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    Why ’Beowulf?’ That English lit mainstay ’extends our horizons‚ stretches the imagination’ By Rose McIlveen | | |For leisure reading the epic poem Beowulf is probably a tough sell. Alfred David‚ an Indiana University| | |Bloomington professor emeritus of English‚ is a believer‚ but a realist as well. He even has a sense of| | |humor about the general reaction to the required reading for generations of college English majors. | | |David recalls a Woody Allen movie‚ Annie Hall‚ in which

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    Movie and Book Comparison In the book Lord of the Flies there are many comparisons between the book and the movie and difference the plot in movie was different than how it was in the book in the movie they changed the some ways of the characters like the way the acted and the story line was different as well. The three major differences that I seen in the movie was how the conch was shattered and how there was an adult with them on the island and Ralphs Attitude towards Piggy. In contrast to the

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    Beowulf And Jesus

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    Proietti Sec. IV English November 04th 2013 Beowulf as a Christ-like character The ancient epic poem‚ Beowulf is the tale of a man‚ a hero‚ travelling to a foreign land‚ known as Heorot to save the doomed inhabitants from evil‚ once there he is faced with many tasks that only a great warrior can resolve. The story presents the main character as a strong individual in his mind‚ body and spirit. Throughout the poem‚ the title character‚ Beowulf‚ is depicted as a Christ-like figure‚ because of

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    Hollywood In Beowulf

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    Beowulf‚ a tale of a hero that is centuries old. From his roots in Geatland‚ his life embodied his aspiration to obtain glory and be victorious‚ the way of life in the Nordic Viking world prior to the Norman invasion of England in 1066. He managed to slay a brutal and foul creature‚ by the name of Grendel. Like many stories‚ especially ones that are over a millennium old‚ it has been edited throughout history‚ and has received completely new twists in the story. Coming straight out of Hollywood is

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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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    The Hunger Games has two versions. It has a book version and a film version. Although both the movie and the book were great‚ they did have some differences.They did in fact have some similarities too. The book and the movie were alike in many ways. Like for an example the characters mostly stay the same. Also in both versions of The Hunger Games everything that happened in the book also happened in the movie too. Than in both the movie and book Foxface ate the berries that Peeta picked‚ and

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