50080500 October 12‚ 2012 Little Women – A Literary Comparison of Movie and Book Little Women” written by Louisa May Alcott in 1868 has been recreated in four television series‚ four made for TV movies‚ and five feature length movies since 1918. The most recent version made in 1994 featuring such well known actresses as Wynona Ryder as the beloved Jo‚ and Susan Sarandon as Marmee. Rarely does a reader find satisfaction with a movie after reading the book‚ as the book most always brings us
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Don’t you hate it when you read a very magnificent book and decide to watch the movie version‚ but then regret it? One thought speeds through your mind - “why did I watch that movie?” Although there are those rare cases when the movie is better‚ for the majority of the time‚ the book version is the most absolute. Some examples are “The Hunger Games” and The Maze Runner sequel where I immensely enjoyed reading the books‚ but strongly disliked the movies. The differences between the book version and
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Jacob Vigil Lit 225 Instructor Sokolowski 3 August 2014 Movie Comparison Before I watched the 1989 Henry V‚ I did a little background on the play and found and interesting quote by the director Kenneth Branagh that stuck out to me. He says on a PBS article‚ “Although we’ve cut things‚ we haven’t changed the lines or tried to simplify anything. Rather the opposite‚ we’ve tried to make as entertainingly complex as possible this extraordinary adventure story that has the power to move
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Works of literature have been adapted for film from the dawn of the industry. Literary adaptation is the adapting of a literary source it can be a novel‚ movie‚ play or even games. For example‚ the first book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was released in November 26‚ 1865. There are lots of companies who made the movie based on the story book‚ such as Walt Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” was released in July 26‚ 1951. The Disney’s version is way better performance than the book because Disney’s
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Nancy Nube April 2nd‚ 2013 Mrs. Telesco Period 6 To Kill a Mockingbird: Compare & Contrast Many works of literature have films to go along with it. The novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper was made into a film which was directed by Robert Mulligan. Main themes‚ key speeches and events were portrayed throughout the novel and the film but were also absent in the film. The novel and the film have numerous similarities and differences. In the novel and the film there were many similarities
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complexity of love in a fast-paced society by using narrative and stylistic elements combined with energetic editing in an advanced‚ creative way. Primarily‚ casting decisions had a huge impact on character portrayal and the success of the movie. Romeo was played by a "pretty boy" in both movies to depict sensitivity and youthful attractiveness. Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Leonard Whiting depicted emotions well‚ but DiCaprio seemed less refined or proper in his movements to put a modern spin
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In this essay we will compare the RSC stage version of Macbeth with the film version by Polanski. We shall look especially at the characterisation of Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth and the witches; Stagecraft of the setting‚ the dagger‚ darkness and light‚ and the devices of death on stage and soliloquies. Shakespeare often found his ideas for his plays in historical sources. He did not follow his sources closely; however‚ he took the most important parts‚ and sometimes added new material to make his
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screenplay Gladiator in terms of narrative structure. I will be discussing the theories such as Aristotle‚ beginning ‚ middle and end‚ Campbell‚ the hero’s journey and Christopher the writers journey. I will discuss how these apply to each of the acts within the screenplay and talk about the theme and back story being set up at the start of the screenplay. The story of Gladiator is about Maximus who is a general‚ who then moves onto to become enslaved‚ a slave who became a gladiator and then the
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Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000)‚ was the first film set in the ancient world produced since the 1960s. Since then‚ there have been many more films made set in the ancient world. The question is‚ why was Gladiator able to revive the ancient world genre? After seeing films like Ben-Hur and Spartacus‚ two of the greatest films ever made set in the ancient world. it is hard not to see the cinematic cues that Gladiator takes from these films. Ben-Hur follows the story of Judah Ben-Hur after he was betrayed
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and later became an Academy Award winning movie in 1940. The novel and the movie are both considered to be magnificent masterpieces. Although both the novel and movie form of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath are considered to be American classics‚ the novel provides a deeper understanding of the story’s time and meaning. The novel’s interchapters provide a greater understanding of the time in which The Grapes of Wrath takes place. First‚ in the movie it is unclear why the Joads are forced to abandon
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