battle Medusa and the Ketos to save Danae‚ from yet another king‚ King Polydectes‚ and Princess Andromeda‚ respectively. Perseus‚ in the movie version‚ must defeat giant scorpions‚ Medusa‚ and the Kraken‚ all to save the citizens of Greece from the wrath of Hades‚ god of the underworld. As the story unfolds‚ one can see connections between the myth and the movie. Perseus‚ half-human‚ half-god‚ was a major focus in both variations. Defeating more than one enemy‚ to seek revenge for his mother and
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big difference of how it is portrayed with the movie. The book has more details and a deeper meaning than the movie. Watching the movie I saw that the creators did not add the important details. It is depressing because there were so many scenes that I wanted to get a better image. The movie had different aspects that it did not tell like the story did. What I believe was an important scene in the book was not shown in the movie. After watching the movie I did not enjoy how it did not show the struggle
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The Joy Luck Club; an intriguing novel and movie about the hardships about being a Chinese immigrant to America soon after the immigration ban was lifted. A challenging story that forced the reader to try to understand that certain customs and traditions that were seen as ’usual’ can be very unlike the ones we as Americans are used to. A story where‚ even though it lacked a lot of violence‚ action‚ or suspense it still was able to grab its readers and viewers. With a little
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by Arthur Laurents. West Side Story‚ the movie‚ was produced in 1961‚ featured Natalie Wood as Maria‚ and was directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. There are some major differences between the two works. For example‚ some of the musical numbers switched places in the movie. Also‚ the song “America‚” is different in the movie than in the play. In the movie many of the characters were different‚ and some of the lines differed as well. In the movie‚ the musical numbers were different than that
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Because a movie has much less time to showcase the events explained in the story‚ many scenes from a book often get cut out of the movie. If this did not happen‚ most movies that are based off of books would be much longer than the average two hours. One of the major differences I noticed while watching the film To Kill a Mockingbird was the fact that Aunt Alexandra was never present in the movie; she was not in one single scene! Because of this‚ the issue of Scout having to act like a “lady” was
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government and the censorship of books. Fourteen years later the book was adapted into a movie version directed by Francois Truffaut. The movie was made so that readers have a visual way to look at it rather than reading it. There were major differences in the movie which excluded important details provided by the book‚ concerning the characters‚ and the advanced technology. Even with the differences‚ the plot of the movie followed similarly to the plot of the book. One of the major differences that is
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Hamlet Essay: Is Hamlet Sane With the coming of Freudian theory in the first half of this century and the subsequent emergence of psychoanalytically-oriented literary criticism in the 1960s‚ the question of Hamlet’s underlying sanity has become a major issue in the interpretation of Hamlet. While related concern with the Prince’s inability to take action had already directed scholarly attention toward the uncertainty of Hamlet’s mental state‚ modern psychological views of the play have challenged
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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet tells the story of Prince Hamlet‚ as he seeks revenge on his uncle and the new King of Denmark‚ Claudius‚ for murdering King Hamlet‚ Hamlet’s father and Claudius’ brother. After Hamlet accidentally killed Polonius rather than Claudius‚ he spoke to the ghost of his father. His mother‚ Gertrude‚ said “To whom do you speak this?” Hamlet replied “Do you see nothing there?” and Gertrude again spoke saying “Nothing at all‚ yet all that I say” (3.4) “This the very coinage of
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Movies summarize plays but leave out certain scenes or details. There are many similarities and differences between the play and the movie Romeo and Juliet‚ as they use the same Elizabethan language and the plot remains the same‚ whereas‚ the use of props and a few scenes are different. A vital similarity between the play and the film is the use of the Elizabethan language. “Juliet: O Romeo‚ Romeo‚ wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name…” (Shakespeare. 2.2.36-7). In the film
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To do or not to do? That is the difficult question young Hamlet must face after his beloved father’s death. In The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare‚ the characters are motivated to seek revenge in order to get what they believe is justice. Shakespeare’s main character‚ Prince Hamlet‚ is both clouded by his passion for vengeance and his responsibility to revive a sense of justice to Denmark‚ which evidently creates the ultimate tragedy of the play. Undoubtedly‚ the theme of revenge and justice
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