reading The Hound of the Baskervilles and watching the movie‚ I noticed many similarities and differences between the two. Writing this compare and contrast essay made me understand the story far more than I did with just reading the book. Here are some differences and some similarities I found while reading and watching The Hound of the Baskervilles. Many people probably noticed differences in the character’s behavior between the movie and book but I found many more similarities. In both‚ Sherlock
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comes to books. Always read the book before the movie. I usually took the easy way out‚ watched the movie‚ and then skim the book. After doing this project I see what everyone was talking about. The book is much better than the movie‚ it gives you more of a sense of what is going on‚ a greater sense of when the story takes place‚ and it gives the characters more definition. II: The book and movie give very specific details to show where and when the story took place. The book and movie takes us back
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In the book of Romeo and Juliet you picture what the characters will look like. The movie shows their point of view of the characters. In the movie it shows the Montagues having a surfers characteristics. They wore a lot of beach shirts with palm trees on them. As we were reading the book I pictured them not as fancy as the Capulets but more casual type of clothing. I visioned Benvolio looking younger than Romeo and Mercutio from how the book described Benvolio. In the movie Benvolio looked a little
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it such as many themes‚ symbolism‚ and imagery. A world wide phenomenal book which was later turned into a movie. There are many similarities and differences in the book To Kill A Mockingbird and the film that was based upon it. In the movie they almost portray the characters perfectly similar to the book by clothing to dialect‚ but there were a few differences. One was how Dill was very skinny and puny when in the book it says he is a bit fat. The film being black and white was different from
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perspective and way of life; although the definition of Gandhi’s quote isn’t exactly made obvious in the movie. In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade‚ the main character Indiana Jones has to join his dad‚ his boss‚ and his foreign friend to keep the Holy Grail safe from the Nazis who plan to use it to change the outcome of World War II. Indy and his father never got along
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Backpacking in Australia‚ Holidays in Australia‚ Australian Travel Guide‚ Australian Explorer. Web. 28 Mar. 2011. . "Australia (2008) - Synopsis." The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). 2008. Web. 28 Mar. 2011. . "HowStuffWorks "What Was Australia ’s Stolen Generation?"" Howstuffworks "History" Web. 28 Mar. 2011. . "World War 2 History - Australia ’s at War." ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland). Web. 28 Mar. 2011. . "World War II in Australia." World War II History Library. Web. 28 Mar. 2011.
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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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soda would sound much more appealing than reading a book by the fire at night while drinking a frappucino from Starbucks. Now‚ producers and directors would take successful and famous stories and adapt it into a movie. Sometimes‚ they would succeed‚ with examples being the Harry Potter series‚ which received mainly positive reviews from both critics and the audience. However‚ most of the time these people would unknowingly butcher the book based movie by taking out many important characters and events
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Persepolis Film and Book Comparison Persepolis the movie doesn’t really deviate from the book all too much. Except for a couple of scenes in color‚ which were set outside the time frame of the book‚ the film basically followed the book. Some scenes‚ for the purpose of time were likely skipped and not included in the film. For the main part‚ the film seemed to want to focus more on Marji’s political commentary and less on the extraneous portions of her life which sort of hurt the narrative. The
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Most people are familiar with Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” to some degree. There are those who have read the full text‚ those who have read excerpts‚ and those who have seen one of the various screen adaptations based on the work. At the very least people are familiar with the story of Mowgli‚ which is by far the most popular; it is also one that most people can recite with little to no thought: boy is found by wolves‚ boy is raised by wolves while hanging out with a panther and a bear‚
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