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    Beowulf & King Arthur: What makes a hero? In a time where warriors were sensationalized for prowess of their swordsmanship and fearless attitude among the battlefield‚ King Arthur and Beowulf have similar traits assigned to their characters. Although there are many particulars that separate the story of Arthur to Beowulf‚ the characteristics that stand out the most deal with the kind of hero they were to their time and the actions they made to become so heroic. To start‚ Beowulf and Arthur are

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    There are key differences and similarities between the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and its movie equivalent. Major differences would include the character Maggie‚ the possible homosexual relationship between Brick and Skipper‚ and the reason for Maggie’s distaste for Skipper. Similarities include most of the cast‚ the overall plot‚ and the bitterness that the family seems to not so secretly hold for each other. The character Maggie in the play version and in the movie version differs. In the play

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    An honorable battle between a powerful and hideous demon Grendel. A very fierce battle with Grendel’s mother. Finally his last yet toughest battle ‚ which cost him his life‚ was with a massive and powerful Dragon. This man’s name has been sung for ages‚ written on parchment‚ story retold many times over the centuries‚ his name is Beowulf! There are minor and yet very major differences between the book and the movie. First lets start with the battle of Grendel. One difference that seem to ‘catch’

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    Major Differences between the Homer’s Iliad and the film Troy. It is very apparent that the film Troy‚ directed by Wolfgang Peterson‚ has been heavily influenced by the epic poem‚ the Iliad‚ a work commonly credited to the Ancient Greek poet Homer. Both the film and the poem have the same overall plots‚ such as the siege of Troy by the Greeks‚ the feud between the warrior Achilles and the king Agamemnon‚ and these events being triggered due to the Trojan prince Paris “stealing” Helen of Sparta

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    Difference is great‚ but can too much of it be unappealing? The Giver by Lois Lowry is a book that was made into a movie about a different and strange community. Jonas‚ the main character‚ is struggling because he finds out he is very different than most people after being selected for a very special job. The book and movie follow the same story line‚ but they are both different in a lot of ways. The differences between the movie and the book is Jonas and Fiona’s relations‚ the whole assignment situation

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    Name: Lidor Hayun 11\21\11 Period 2 The differences between the tragedy of Julius Caesar from the book and the movie. In the story of “the tragedy of Julius Caesar” There are a few differences between the movie and the book. Sometimes throughout the movie they will cut parts of the text because people wouldn’t want to see a movie if it’s too long‚ but sometimes the editors would cut out very important parts of the text‚ which can change the entire story‚ or how we look at a character personalities

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    I Am David book/movie comparison Have you ever seen I Am David or read the book? If you have‚ you could probably see a lot of differences between them. The plot is fairly similar‚ but the complications are different. The differences from the movie and the book can just pop out in front of your face‚ almost like its telling you that this is different. To start off‚ the setting of the story (book) I thought it would be some sort of dark pastels because how David’s mood is in the story I thought

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    Outsider book and movie differences The Outsiders book and movie are similar to eachother. The movie basically takes everything straight from the book‚ but movie leaves out a couple scenes and many other important things. The way the characters were described and the relationships between them was off in the movie. In the book Dally and Soda were blonds‚ but in the movie all the greasers were brunettes. You don’t get to know the characters very well in the movie and the tention between Darry and Ponyboy

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    based on classic novels. The epic poem Beowulf goes very much into the importance of the Christian overtones whereas the film version attempts to omit the religious atmosphere with other possibilities of events. The movie version of Beowulf adds certain aspects to the story‚ such as the creation of Beowulf’s son‚ and the suicide of Hrothgar‚ while also omitting the emphasis of religion that is omnipresent in the text version. In the cinematic version of Beowulf‚ the dragon is revealed to be Beowulf’s

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    movies‚ sadly the use of your imgaination is not needed. In the movie industry today it has become common practice to adept a book into a movie. But with the legnths most movies run‚ which is about an hour and a half to two hours you would not be able to include all the details of the book. So sadly you loose out on some of the content as well as plot changes from time to time. In the following paragraphs the differences between the movie and book will be examined as well as the possible reasons why

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