Translating a book into a movie can be a very elusive task for many reasons. This is due to the fact that a book has many key points in it and compressing them all into a certain time frame can be very arduous. Mark Forster’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel the Kite Runner is a rather weak portrayal of what the author had originally wrote because of its bad casting choices‚ very significant and harmful cuts to the novel and scenes added throughout the film. Although the director’s intention
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Peter Jackson’s 2009 film‚ The Lovely Bones‚ is based off of the New York Times bestseller novel written by Alice Sebold. Both the book and the movie adaptation tell the story of a young‚ 14-year-old girl named Susie Salmon who is brutally murdered by her neighbor. In both versions‚ Susie narrates her story from the place between Heaven and Earth‚ the “in-between‚” showing the lives of her family and friends and how each of their lives have changed since her murder. However‚ the film adaptation
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The title of this book/movie is The Lovely Bones. It is about a girl named Susie Salmon who is raped and murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey. Throughout the book and the movie susie’s family falls apart as they try to solve her murder. But as susie watches from heaven she tries to help her family cope with her loss while she is coping with the thought of never being able to grow up herself. There are many differences between the book and the movie. For example in the book hen susie’s soul leaves
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Picture the whole family sitting on the couch watching a movie‚ then bang the hero is faced with what most believe is an insurmountable task‚ at the end of the movie the family realized that the moment the dreadful event happened and was overcome‚ was what made the story what it was. The Fall of all stories starts with a trigger that starts the ball rolling‚ it starts the descent from a high to a low state. Every movie‚ book or poem has one‚ even if the spectator does not realize it. There is a main
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The Maze Runner is a book to movie adaption of the James Dashner book that goes by the same title. The movie was first released in Mexico on September 11‚ 2014 and made its debut in the United States eight days later on the nineteenth. The movie was very different from the book but show some components that were wonderfully used. The Maze Runner follows a group of teenage boys trying to survive in a maze when all of a sudden girl appears and starts changing everything. They don’t know who put them
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There are many similarities and differences between “The Hunger Games” movie and novel version. Only a few truly stood out to me. To begin with‚there are several similarities between the novel and the movie. The one that I liked the most was when Prim was called and Katniss volunteered for her. She was shocked and couldn’t help herself but to do it. Like the novel Prim was taken to her mother by Gale. Katniss is escorted to the stage by the peacekeepers. Another example is when Peeta gave
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O Pioneer’s was a good movie‚ but an even better book. The movie did a good job at getting the point of the story line across‚ but not so much with the character development. I actually finished the book after watching the whole movie so I knew what to expect. I anticipated everything that was going to happen because I wanted to know if it would be the same as the movie. While the plot did not change‚ there were many things that the movie ceased to explain. For explain‚ I would have liked to know
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“The Great Gatsby”. The book‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald has had great success‚ and has been adopted into a wildly popular film seen all across the world. While the two pieces closely resemble each other‚ they can easily be contrasted. When looking at both the book and the movie spin-off‚ we can point out differences in their setting‚ how characters are portrayed‚ and well all we can also find similarities‚ such as Mr. Gatsby’s parties. Between the movie and the book‚ we can conclude
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for what is still to come. This sense of hopelessness and this view of the future is very well pictured in the novel and the movie: The Children of Men. In fact‚ the plot‚ the characters and the setting are very similar in the novel and the movie. First of all‚ the plot in the movie is relatively similar to the one in the book. In fact‚ the plot in the novel and the movie are similar because they both approach the issue of an unfertile human species and there is a woman who gets pregnant in both
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The 1977 version of “A Christmas Carol” by BBC is a very accurate rendition of the book it was based on by Charles Dickens written in 1843. This movie comes with its strengths and weaknesses‚ most of its weaknesses coming from the quality of the film production and the movie’s strengths coming from it’s striking resemblance to the earlier made novel. The short movie mirrored the book in so many ways that only really small details were left out such as Scrooge going to the tavern to get his dinner
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