Dear John; Book vs. Movie Author Nicholas Sparks added to his list of best sellers with the novel Dear John. Dear John is a love story‚ love stories make big money in movie form‚ so the novels are popular to make into a movie. Books and movies are two forms of entertainment that are closely related and we overlook the differences among them. There are many similarities between the two‚ but there are also major differences. If one has never read a novel and then watched the movie version of
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Sleep In the book The Big Sleep‚ and the film The Big Sleep‚ I saw many similarities and many differences. Both book and film intrigue the mind of the reader and viewer by introducing different plots and characters through out the book and film. First I shall start off by talking about the plots and characters of the book and film. The plot and the setting at the beginning of the film pretty much started out the same as it did in the book. The only difference that I
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Fourth‚ the effect of evolution is irreversible which explain that once the organisms evolve‚ it cannot reverse back to previous state. From the movie‚ an antibody is created to reverse the mutation of genes for the mutants. However‚ in reality‚ mutation of genes cannot be reverse like in the movie. Mutation that occur in an individual cannot be reverse because mutation that happen in the chromosomes or genes is irreversible. A chromosome mutation is an unpredictable change that occurs in a chromosome
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The film and the play were both very good but the film helps me understand the play better. Some of the differences between the play and film are the acting in this movie made the play not very interesting and at times the film was comical when the play was serious. The direction of the film did not deviate far from the original text. The characterization seems to be different from play to film with certain characters
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein runs from all of his problems until he ends up with terrible consequences. James Whale‚ the film director for the movie phenomenon Frankenstein was not only an artist‚ but also a man who had a vision. The movie Frankenstein is based off Mary Shelley’s work of art‚ Frankenstein. After 85 years‚ the movie Frankenstein is still greatly appreciated‚ it implies a society we know nothing about and have a strange curiosity towards. James Whale is truly a genius for
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Mao Zedong Mao Zedong was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party. He started the Great Leap Forward movement in China. Most of his goals‚ however‚ never worked out greatly for China. Mao Zedong was born in Shaoshan‚ China on December 26‚ 1893. The country was in a very difficult time and life was hard for most people. Mao’s family lived better than most of China’s population and had three acres of farmland that they had kept for many generations. When Mao was 8 years old‚ he started going
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tries to recreate a book into a movie‚ it is really hard to stick to all of the details because most movies have a time limit. If a director were to make a movie the exact way a book was written‚ then the movie would be four to five hours long. Not a lot of people would complain about it‚ but there is a cost limit to the movie as well. So‚ concerning The Virgin Suicides book and movie‚ you can see that there will be a lot of alterations to the books details. Although the movie and book of The Virgin Suicides
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task as it may sound‚ there are many problems that can arise from trying to adapt a book into a movie‚ being that the written word is what makes the novel a literary work of art. Many times‚ it is hard to express the written word on camera because the words that express so much action and feeling can not always be expressed the same way through pictures and acting. One example of this can be found in the comparison of Ken Kesey’s novel‚ "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ and the film version directed
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Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde’s last and most famous play was introduced in London on the 14 February‚ 1895. Most of Oscar Wilde’s works of fiction have been made into films‚ some of them more than once. In 2002 Oscar Wilde’s play was dramatised into a modern equivalent‚ offering viewers a copy that differs on very few points from the original drama. This film was directed by Oliver Parker‚ who also wrote the screenplay. Notably‚ Algernon is portrayed as the older brother in the movie; however in the play
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Suddenly‚ in the next shot‚ we are taken to a pleasant scene in Goa‚ where we are introduced to a handsome young man singing at a Christian wedding. This is no other than Anil‚ but as an adult. This scene occurs at a critical juncture in the film “Disco Dancer”. It serves
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