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    different. A common value that many people have is hope. Hope provides a sense of relief and happiness in people that things will turn out the best for them. The value of hope is shown often by Stephen King in the novel Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption through Andy Dufresne. Stephen King also shows hope through many characters the film Dolores Claiborne. Through his conflicting scenarios‚ Stephen King was able to provide his readers with an idea of hope in the lives of the characters in his

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    Dufresne‚ the main character in the movie studied in class‚ Shawshank Redemption. Andy Dufresne was a banker who was convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and sent to Shawshank prison. Andy eventually becomes good friends with a fellow inmate named Ellis Boyd Redding (Red) who has a large impact on his moral & ethical development. The film follows the prison life of Andy Dufresne who uses his intelligence and knowledge to aid others. In his time at Shawshank‚ his energy and determination helped

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    In the film The Shawshank Redemption‚ directed by Frank Darabont the purpose of the beginning sequence is to introduce us to Andy Dufresne and his situation; being accused of the murder of his wife and her lover. This sequence uses lighting‚ music‚ sound and camera work to show us Andy’s struggle. A production aspect that shows us this idea is lighting. Low Key Lighting is used in the scene when we see Andy in his car drinking bourbon and loading his hand gun. Low Key Lighting is when the lighting

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    Woods has amazing adaptation of many fairytales. From Lapine’s book along came Stephen Sondheim who transferred the book to a musical. In 1987 Theatre Communications Group published James Lapine’s book. James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take ordinary everyday fairytale classics and bring then together into a modern take on fairytales. Into the Woods premièred as a musical at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986 The Tony Award-winning book and score are both delightful and touching. The 1987 version of

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    The Giver Movie Vs Book

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    originally written as a novel and later adapted to a movie. The book and movie have many differences yet they are also the same in many ways. The Giver movie opens with Jonas riding his bike while looking up at the sky. He sees flashes of green trees‚ blue skies and yellow tinted rays from the sun. In the novel Jonas only sees flashes of red until his training with the Giver. When the Giver gives Jonas the memory of rainbows in the book Jonas only knows of the quality of color after. After

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    Mulan Book Vs Movie

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    The Book and Movie have differences in the movie and book of Mulans or what ever you want to call that stuff. IN the beginning of the Book to the movie is that Mulan is young but in the movie Mulan is older. She goes to live with some old old old people they train her. She can be a warrior. In the book and also in the movie. In the Book and movie Her family pushed her to become a warrior the movie Shw wants to become a woman warrior They send her off. They wants her to go and fight for

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    Holes Book Vs. Movie

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    of what a thesis statement should look like: The three major differences between the book The Outsiders and the movie version of The Outsiders were the courtroom scene‚ Ponyboy’s sickness after the rumble‚ and Dally’s death. Three of the major similarities between the book and movie version of The Outsiders were the death of Bob‚ Johnny‚ and Dally. The similarities between the book Holes and the movie Holes are the camp Stanley goes to‚ the way he is treated at the camp‚ and the treasure

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    The book was better than the movie on account of it had way more details‚ and it had more parts in it than the movie did. It is extremely time-consuming to fit an entire book in a less than two hour long movie‚ but authors and readers can produce a book as long as you want. Although the movie took a shorter time to watch than reading the book did‚ the readers can retrieve more from a book than they can retrieve from watching a movie. Even in movies that into feeling by the book scene for scene there

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    Antigone: Movie vs Book

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    concept most living people have never seen before. So that is probably the reason why the book and the movie are so different. In the book‚ there are little breaks from the story where the chorus steps in and talks about what is going on‚ what the gods would say and other things like that. But in the movie‚ they have a narrator that can talk to the audience and the people in the play. In the beginning of the movie‚ the narrator starts talking to the audience about the lonely girl sitting on the stairs

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    Ever read a book‚ and then see the movie of the story? The novel and movie‚ The Outsiders‚ had many similarities and many differences. The Outsiders is an excellent tale by S. E. Hinton‚ and the movie was high-quality as well. There was a huge variation between the two. There were also tiny details that were precisely the same. The novel and movie had many similarities and differences. The similarities are a huge part of what makes the movie great. The movie and the novel both had the complete

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