Over the past decade‚ comic book movies have tremendously grown in popularity. Spiderman‚ Superman‚ and Captain America are all superhero characters that have recently been developed onto the big screen. When judging superhero adaptations‚ there is one that all others look up to. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is the standard for which comic book movies should be compared to. Many people come to the conclusion that it is a great movie‚ but what makes it a great movie? The Dark Knight excels at
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While having the option to read the novel‚ The Cay or watch the movie‚ The Cay I would rather read the book. I believe the book‚ by Theodore Taylor‚ is better because of the fact that there is far more details of the adventure that Phillip and Timothy had in the book than in the movie‚ produced by Walter Seltzer. I also can see in the movie that there is a very low budget for the movie. I also believe that the fact that you can read Philip’s mind it makes that story that much better and shows how
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comes to books. Always read the book before the movie. I usually took the easy way out‚ watched the movie‚ and then skim the book. After doing this project I see what everyone was talking about. The book is much better than the movie‚ it gives you more of a sense of what is going on‚ a greater sense of when the story takes place‚ and it gives the characters more definition. II: The book and movie give very specific details to show where and when the story took place. The book and movie takes us back
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Essay for The Great Gatsby The plot and the setting of book and movie are very similar. There was a lot of thins borrowed from the book‚ but there was a lot changed as well. The movie followed the plot of book very closely and portrayed the setting of the book very well. A lot of the dialogue was borrowed and spoken directly as it was in the book. The movie did an excellent job portraying the 1920’s and the parties that happened at Gatsby’s house. “There was music from my neighbor’s house
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anyone thought of a war movie‚ they immediately thought of Darryl F. Zanuck’s‚ The Longest Day. Cornelius Ryan‚ who was the author of the book by the same name‚ and happened to be a D-day veteran himself‚ wrote the movie. The book meticulously recreates the events preceding and during the invasion. It is filled with detailed descriptions of multiple occurrences during the invasion. It explains everything from mass attacks on beaches and towns to humorous anecdotes. The book wasn’t exactly a story
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those type of characters‚ is named Beorn. Beorn is a character that appears in the novel named The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. There is a remake of the book in a movie version called The Hobbit and it is directed by Peter Jackson. The book was originally published during the year 1937. The movie of The Hobbit was released in the year 2012. In the movie‚ Gandalf‚ Bilbo‚ and the dwarves meet Beorn in a dramatic way in which Beorn chases them to his own home‚ while in the novel Gandalf tells the party
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Translating a book into a movie can be a very elusive task for many reasons. This is due to the fact that a book has many key points in it and compressing them all into a certain time frame can be very arduous. Mark Forster’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel the Kite Runner is a rather weak portrayal of what the author had originally wrote because of its bad casting choices‚ very significant and harmful cuts to the novel and scenes added throughout the film. Although the director’s intention
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Peter Jackson’s 2009 film‚ The Lovely Bones‚ is based off of the New York Times bestseller novel written by Alice Sebold. Both the book and the movie adaptation tell the story of a young‚ 14-year-old girl named Susie Salmon who is brutally murdered by her neighbor. In both versions‚ Susie narrates her story from the place between Heaven and Earth‚ the “in-between‚” showing the lives of her family and friends and how each of their lives have changed since her murder. However‚ the film adaptation
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The movie Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck starts with a woman running guys on horses with ravenous dogs that we can only guess are the main characters. If you read the book‚ then watch the movie you know all the things that happened. Though There are some features in the movie that are different than the book. Therefore some parts of the book were left out of the movie. The story of the movie can be hard to follow if you don’t pay attention to what is happening and what things symbolizes
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Picture the whole family sitting on the couch watching a movie‚ then bang the hero is faced with what most believe is an insurmountable task‚ at the end of the movie the family realized that the moment the dreadful event happened and was overcome‚ was what made the story what it was. The Fall of all stories starts with a trigger that starts the ball rolling‚ it starts the descent from a high to a low state. Every movie‚ book or poem has one‚ even if the spectator does not realize it. There is a main
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