WRITING A BOOK / FILM REVIEW Reviews are brief accounts of books‚ films‚ plays‚ CDs‚ etc. Their purpose is to inform readers and viewers‚ while also giving opinions and recommendations about whether or not they should buy a CD‚ read a book‚ watch a film‚ etc. A good film / book review should include: ( An introduction which gives facts and background information concerning the book‚ film‚ etc‚ its credits. Some good examples of them are the following: Credits: • Title and year
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Films versus books Nowadays‚ in the century of the technological progress‚ people tend to read less and instead of it they prefer to watch movies. It depends on people‚ but for me books are much better. Firstly‚ books develop in us the power of the imagination. Readers create their own world‚ they decide for themselves‚ how the characters look like‚ how they speak and other details. This imagination is the creative process‚ which is missing in the film. Books let us live everything that happens
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Books‚ TV‚ Films… There are myriad of media types for information communication nowadays. Comparing with a traditional media‚ such as books‚ TV and film are more up-to-date media means. However‚ all of them have their own benefits and drawbacks. Ancient people of different countries used dried palm leaves‚ silk‚ stones‚ papyrus to write texts and transmit them. Therefore‚ books linked to humans’ desire to create long lasting records and since they played very essential role in human’s life. They
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The film that I choose is Scarface. In 1931 Howard Hawks directed the original film "Scarface" based off the novel by Armitae Trail. In any case‚ as a result of its depiction of violence about a ruthless and atrocious gangster‚ which it mixed up lots of controversy with the studios head office about censoring issues‚ which delayed the films debut until the following year of 1932. About half-century later‚ after the first Scarface was released‚ director Brian De Palma made his own remake of the great
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works chosen. The most prevalent battle strategies was hand-to-hand combat in order to siege control over buildings. In the movie‚ Stalingrad (2013)‚ hand to hand combat is used many times – primarily when the German forces are attempting to invade a house belonging to an innocent Russian girl named Katya’s. This is also the building in which a small Russian platoon is residing. The Russian and German troops battle using bayonet charges (a form of hand-to- hand combat) as well as by using small knives
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Arthurian Legend In the film‚ King Arthur‚ there are many similarities and differences when being compared to the novel. My main focus is on the many differences that change the relevance of the story. Arthur’s father is a Roman general from the Imperial Roman army and his mother is a Celtic woman. In the historical notes of the legend‚ Arthur’s father is Uther Pendragon‚ a famous Romano-British commander and one of Britain’s earlier kings‚ and his mother is Igraine‚ a beautiful young woman who
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The “Outsiders” film and novel are both very outstanding and interesting.After watching the movie I noticed a few similarities‚ like how they both have all the same characters‚ and the church gets burnt down. Even though there are many similarities there are still a lot of differences‚ including how In the book Ponyboy was jumped‚ but this did not happen in the movie Here are a few of the similarities they share. Darry‚ Sodapop‚ and Ponyboy are all brothers. In both‚ the film‚ and the novel Darry
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Mahatma Gandhi in India. The Spirit of the Chinese People is the representative work of GuHongming and it collected from a series of papers with the core of the spirit of the Chinese people. At the time of facing Western powers bullying the Chinese nation and discriminating against the Chinese culture‚ Gu Hongming is to reveal the main thrust of the spiritual life of the Chinese people‚ expounding the eternal values of Chinese traditional culture. The first spirit of Chinese people is gentle‚
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As a result‚ the change in format between the text and the film allow readers to better understand Charlie and his mental illnesses. Furthermore‚ viewers also gain a clearer storyline of the novel while being able to further analyze Charlie’s character. Another distinct difference that is depicted between the film and the novel is the characterization of the main characters of the novel. In the novel‚ Charlie gets in a fight with a kid named Sean after receiving bullying threats: “He seemed pretty
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society‚ the majority of popular teen books have a storyline that has a basic hero and villain plot‚ with some internal conflict added in for the hero. Most of the time the hero will stick out or be different for everyone else or the regulations. In “The Giver” by Lois Lowry we see this often used storyline. But the film adaption had decided to go along with more of a romance with a little of action placed into it. While yes there were some differences between the book and the movie‚ Philip Noyce did
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