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    Essay After I read the book and watched the movie The Watsons Go to Birmingham‚ I noticed there were some obvious major differences between the two. Three of the major differences I noticed include the diner discussion with the white employees‚ the absence of the character Rufus‚ and their cousins talking about school integration. These differences played a major part in how the story was told. One difference between the book and movie is in the movie Grandma Sands dear friend Mr

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    January 2017 The Great Gatsby: Novel and Movie With Analysis The Great Gatsby is an extraordinary piece of work. This story covers up several themes such as money‚ love‚ and the American Dream. This story follows the life of Jay Gatsby who pretends to be someone he’s not to win back Daisy Buchanan‚ the girl of his dreams. Having the opportunity to read the book and watch the movie‚ there were several differences and similarities I observed. These similarities between the novel and the film make up a huge

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    of the book and then there were none to the movie Ten Little Indians. The book and movie differed in many ways‚ such as the setting. The next few paragraphs will tell the differences between the book and the movie. This will state the differences in the character names‚ the setting‚ and the finale. The character names differ in many of the characters but some of them are actually the same. General Macarthur in the book is known as General Mandrake in the movie. Emily Brent in the book‚ is named

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    Within a new trend in the Movies Industry‚ a lot of classic books are selected to be turned into films for the big screen. This is the case of the epic poem Beowulf‚ which dates from Anglo Saxon times and is considered as the earliest poem in the modern European language. In 2007‚ the American director Robert Zemeckis produced Beowulf. In my opinion he chose this poem as a source for a Hollywood movie because it carries valuable information about revelations and controversies of Old English social

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    entirely different story. An example of this is present in The Power of One. A book about a young boys journey through his youth‚ is turned into a hollywood styles love story through the introduction of a character not mentioned in the book‚ Maria. Elements such as this changed the whole meaning and message of the book. The Power of One was an engrossing novel with beautiful themes‚ but it was butchered by the movie industry by the use of added characters‚ the removal of vital scenes‚ and plot

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    The book a streetcar named desire is about a girl called Blanche Dubois‚she’s a very depressing girl because she caught her husband cheating with another man in the 1980’s.But‚ there’s many element that are many difference between the book and the movie. First of all‚ the first difference that was really easy to see was the way the paper boy was acting toward Blanche. In the book‚ when Blanche was trying to flirt with him he wasn’t really into her‚ he was scared and shocked and he backed off but

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    picture and he switches back‚ finally showing Dorian’s age. Through out the movie The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ filmed in 1945 by Albert Lewin‚ we the audience sees vast amounts of similarities compared to the book written in 1890 by Oscar Wilde. Clearly‚ the story relates through the plot and gives an accurate representation of what the book would portray‚ but what stands out the most is the miniscule amount of differences the director decided to change. To start‚ in Wilde’s version‚ Sybil Vane is

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    Ferreira Essay 1 The Novel Catch-22 Novel Movie Comparison There are a lot of major differences between the novel and movie of Catch-22 as well as some similarities. The movie and book as a whole do have the same plot and follow a very similar story line. Like in all books that are made into movies there was much more information and detail in the book than there was in the movie‚ especially in the missions and the introduction of characters. The book is very complex and it was probably a challenge

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    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 first

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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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