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    Have you ever wondered what a book would look like if it were a movie? Or vice versa? The decisions the writer makes to assure that the movie or book is good enough for you to read/watch can be challenging‚ and sometimes scenes get cut. The different decisions writers make based on screenplay and novelists is that for screenplay‚ they have to make sure the movie will be pleasing to the eye. As for the book they have to make sure it’s easy to read and you can understand it. In Flowers For Algernon

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    Grundhoefer Professor Thomas 2/20/2012 Dracula: A better read‚ or a better movie? Since the beginning of the moving picture‚ directors have been recreating books into movie. More often than not‚ the directors will change the original plot line of the book. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula the director changes the plot in a few different instances but for the most part‚ the director keeps the same plotline. Some similarities between the book and the movie are: the genre and setting‚ loss of personal power

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    Jassi J.L. Aberdeen May 7‚ 2013 Watching a movie or reading a book People become curious when they are hearing the phrase “once upon a time”. How do people get to know stories they desire? By watching and reading. Therefore‚ the same story can be told via a movie or a book but the processes and results are various. Watching a movie is an enjoyable way to gain direct perception of a story. Viewing films is more entertaining as a visual and auditory feast. For the entire story‚ people have less

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    read the book then watch the movie. But why? If you read the bookyou have an image in your head of what the character looks like‚ what their voices sound like‚ and what the scene looks like‚ and usually it is pretty good. But when you watch the movie‚ all those images get shattered. When you read a book‚ there may be parts of the book that you really like that you would like at see on the TV screen. But then‚ when the movie finally comes out‚ the part you like isn’t even filmed! Like in Addicted

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    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 Into the Woods teaches children

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    director of the 1970’s version of Antigone to write a script based on a 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

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    Being There: The Book Vs. The Movie Being There by Jerzy Kosinksi is a unique novel about a man named Chauncey Gardiner‚ also known as Chance‚ who is forced to move out of the only environment he’s ever known in his life‚ the “Old Man’s” house. The book was successful enough to have a screenplay for the movie written by the author as well. Since Chance is very mentally slow‚ his perception of the world outside his house is unlike any other. When he comes into contact with other people‚ they find

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    When books are adapted to movies Directors will usually change a number of things and change unnecessary details. However‚ for the movie The Book Thief the director did not seem to consider all that he was getting rid of that helped the story flow. There were many differences and similarities between the book and the movie. However‚ the film adaptation does not measure up to the original due to some incorrect order of events‚ certain details‚ and the characters. Even though the Movie and the book

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    humans. Real life mongooses are much like Rikki-tikki-tavi. They are playful yet sly. They are sensitive yet frightful. The film and the story are very similar yet different still. Many of these similarities and differences include the characters‚ setting‚ and the conflict in the two mediums. There are many‚ many characters in the story and film‚ including the famous Rikki-tikki-tavi. He was the bravest of them all. He was similar in the movie as in the book. According to Rikki-tikki-tavi‚ the story

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    The book The Outsiders is written by S.E Hinton. It is a book about two gangs called the Socs and the Greasers. They have different social groups and it makes them to where they do not get along. The book was also turned into a movie it was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. There are many differences between the book and the movie. The differences worth pointing out are that Dally was accused of slashing someones tires in the movie not in the book‚ that Johnny was not jumped in the movie but he was

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