breathtaking costumes‚ the movie Troy was a Hollywood movie that was certainly a box office hit. I am not sure if you know this but Troy was based on the Iliad an epic by Homer. Aside from the excitement during the movie‚ unfortunately it proved to be a loose adaptation of Homer’s classic and I could not help but notice the major differences between the book and the movie. One of the most major differences between the book and the movie was the absence of the Gods in the movie. In Homer’s Iliad‚ the
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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‚ and the gothic
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can remember‚ accomplishing great things. Heroes give a town a feeling of security that if anything happens the heroes are there to save them. Heroes like Hercules‚ give the town a sense of hope‚ that nothing bad will happen to them and they can live in happiness and peace. However‚ when comparing hero myth’s to their movies it can major differently‚ and be just alike. In the movie Hercules compared to the myth Hercules there are many differences. In the book‚ Apollo and Hercules have a quarrel
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Frankenstein book was a little long to read and not very interesting to me. The pictures were good to have to somewhat visualize what was going on‚ but otherwise the book was a waste of time to me. I could never really get into it very much making it difficult for me to read it without getting bored of it. We also just finished the movie today with Carrie Fisher which was weird not seeing her shooting a blaster at storm troopers‚ but that is beside the point. It did not follow the book that we read
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Into the wild is a book as well as a film. The book was written by Jon Krauker and the film was by Sean Penn. Chris McCandless was the son of 2 wealthy parents‚ he graduated from Emory University as top athlete and student. However‚ instead of becoming someone big and important with money‚ he decided to throw all of that away and give his money and savings to charity and set of to his journey into the Alaskan wilderness. Chris McCandless wasn’t a sociopath‚ he wasn’t an outcast and he wasn’t a crazy
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reckless‚ a brilliant artist and an irresponsible egotist; but regardless of what one’s opinion is on Chris McCandless‚ there is no denying that he is interesting and has inspired a variety of works in the media‚ including author Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild‚ which was adapted into a film in 2007. Though both the novel and film follow the same storyline‚ the two have their inevitable differences. The first noticeable major difference is how the story is told. In the novel‚ Jon Krakauer writes from
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Most often when a book or a poem gets made into a movie‚ there are many similarities and differences amongst the two. This was no exception for the epic poem Beowulf‚ translated by Seamus Heaney‚ and the 2007 animated motion picture “Beowulf.” It became evident rather early on in the film that the directors had interpreted the poem far differently than what it was made out to be when it was originally written. In the opening scene‚ King Hrothgar is illustrated as fat and slobbishly; almost like a
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accompanied by a lyre. It was very famous and would be told often at different places where there were a lot of people. This poem is one of the first to be told in the old-english language. However after various years of being told it finally got written down. But recently‚ there have been various movies that have been produced that tell the poem of Beowulf‚ the warrior who fought bravely against monsters. In the Beowulf movie and poem‚ there are similarities and differences in the comportment of a hero
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The story The Nutcracker has many different versions of the story. There are books‚ movies‚ and ballets. The original book was made in 1816 by ETA Hoffmann‚ and was called The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. There are many different rewrites of the book. The book is during Christmas‚ and Clara got a nutcracker‚ and it was magical Christmas. In brief‚ there are many different adaptations of the story The Nutcracker. Despite the various version of the story the plot stay the same. The plot has the
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trying on their oversized clothes playing dress up‚ children pageantry is nothing like that it sexualizes young girls. Can you imagine seeing your little three year old daughter or niece a dressed up as a prostitute‚ who Julia Robert played in the movie Pretty Woman? That was one of the many disturbing image I saw while watching Toddlers and Tiaras. How can a mother let their young daughters go on national television dressed in skimpy outfits for the world to see? I don’t
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