Book vs. Movies A long time has passed since the idea that “The book is better than the movie” was accepted without question. There are almost no exceptions. Some key reasons why the film version of a book is so lacking relates to‚ one‚ the lack of depth of the story‚ two time constraints and‚ three‚ the inability for producers to include the full content of a story. Most of the time‚ if the movies follow an original script‚ and there is no book version to compare it to‚ it is most likely
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The film The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann and produced in 2013 was a commendable representation of the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald that it was based off of. The roles of the main characters Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio)‚ Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan)‚ Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton)‚ and Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) were played on point. The movie mostly kept the same feeling as the book or helped the viewer understand it more. Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan’s roles in the book were recreated
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The Great Gatsby Critical Movie Review The Great Gatsby is a movie that was made in 1974 by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Jack Clayton‚ produced by David Merrick‚ which was taken from the screenplay written by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie is based off the 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ and the main actors in the movie are Robert Redford (Jay Gatsby)‚ Mia Farrow (Daisy Buchanan)‚ Bruce Dern (Tom Buchanan)‚ and Sam Waterson (Nick Carraway). Although the movie didn’t go over
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The Great Gatsby: Differences in the Film and Novel There are a few differences between The Great Gatsby novel and film. The scenes that are different do not necessarily change the overall plot of the film‚ but they do modify the meaning and tone of that specific act. However‚ even with the differences the film stays true to the novel for the most part. Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby stays fairly faithful to the novel‚ but there a few scenes in the movie that have been changed from the book. The
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John Spirikaitis Mrs.Calabrese English 11th CP November 16th 2014 The Great Gatsby by‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that creates imagery almost around every corner. The book also shows how cupidity and duplicity can lead to chaos. As a human being in this world‚ its natural or a need to want things that our of reach: not caring of the ramifications along the way. The book The Great Gatsby has been produced into multiple films. The two that we are most aware of was an older version made in
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The differences between William Golding’s allegorical novel Lord of the Flies and its film adaptation are evident. Firstly‚ when marooned on the island in the book‚ the boys are completely isolated from any adults. This comes in complete contrast to the movie where one of the pilots‚ though injured and mostly unconscious‚ survives the crash and is stranded along with the boys. An adult would remind the children of their home in England and of society’s laws and norms; the animalistic and instinctive
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February‚ 2013 The Great Gatsby ----comparison between book and 1974 movie The difference between the developing way of books and movies is magnificently huge because the way of emotion transmitting is different; the movie is based on vision‚ while the book is based on words. ADDITONS in plots: In the beginning of the movie‚ Nick is sailing a boat and then meets Tom at the dock‚ while Tom
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The Great Gatsby In the book The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ a man tries to get the love of his life back‚ and ends up dying because of it. Now some people think this is heroic but others think he was just plain stupid. The director Baz Luhrmann adapted the book into a movie and did a good job portraying some aspects of the book‚ like the characters and the overall plot. He also did a good job of adding new things into it to make the movie better‚ like Nick’s life after Gatsby. The book
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violent crimes he has and will commit. Alex accepts and then goes on continuing to do “...the old ultraviolence” (Burgess 1) ;as he calls his violent actions; and the government is fine with this as long as their pristine image is upheld. While the movie ends on this scene (we do not get to see the ultraviolence after this) the deal he strikes with the Minister is the same and it is implied that he does continue after with his violent acts. The minister says
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The Great Gatsby is by far one of the best classical novels ever written. Fitzgerald sure knew what he was doing with this one. The book is still one of the top sellers and has been made into two movies so far. The difference both large and small between chapter eight of The Great Gatsby and its 1974 and 2013 film adaptions prove that once again‚ Hollywood can sure make a heart racing film from just a few hundred pages. The film adoptions of the Great Gatsby‚ talks about the love within Gatsby and
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