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    Even though the movie Pocahontas had correct information‚ it had errors that were different from reality. Some things were some what correct but not completely accurate. The movie also provides educational information for children. Pocahontas was mainly about an adventurous Indian girl‚ but it included information about english settlers. Pocahontas had a main character as Captain John Smith‚ but in Pocahontas 2‚ the english main character is John Rolfe. There were definitely some correct things

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    Peter Jackson recently directed a trilogy of movies that are an adaptation of the book The Hobbit. There are some disappointments in the films such as the additional characters and storylines. Some of the supplementary storyline does help to serve as a backstory and shed light on why the characters are undertaking what they are on the expedition. However a majority of the additions to the movie only function to confuse the watcher on what was happening and generate action for the spectators when

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    Othello Movie Vs Play

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    Nelson is an adaptation of the well crafted play Othello by William Shakespeare. The film has many similarities to the play‚ and the storyline of the movie mirrors the main events that take place in the play as well as highlighting important symbols that are present in the play. Although there are many similarities‚ the play also differs from the movie in many ways. The original title of the play was ‘The Tragedy of Othello‚ The Moor of Venice’‚ which brings attention

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    In the movie version of “Boys and Girls”‚ there were many differences‚ such as the beginning. In the movie‚ we open into the scene where the first horse is shot. The girl and Laird are both watching‚ however another difference to the original short story is that Laird has an adverse reaction to the death of the horse. He runs out of the barn and away until his sister catches him and tells him that it was good that he saw‚ so he now knows what has to eventually be done in these cases. In the events

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    it was presented in the film adaptation we watched in class. One major difference was that in the movie‚ the girls were shown dancing in the forest at the beginning. In the play it is only a flashback. The scene was added in the movie to make it more dramatic and foreshadowing. I think it helps to understand the movie better and it sets the mood of the story from the very beginning. In the movie‚ when the girls visit Betty before the trial‚ Betty is very wild and almost violent and even tries

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    In many scenes of the movie the producer had the actors say exact lines and recreate scenes taken directly from the book. “Within‚ stood a tall old man‚ clean shaven save for a long white moustache‚ He held in his hand an antique silver lamp‚ in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind‚ throwing long

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    The Odyssey comparison

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    I believe that the main human conflict of the Odyssey is perseverance. Throughout the novel it shows Odysseus’s multiyear journey back home from the Trojan War with his comrades even after most of them die on the journey. The modern work that I will be comparing the Odyssey to is O Brother‚ Where Art Thou. Both of the works are about the perseverance of a group of men that are encountered by numerous people that get in the way or attempt to stop them from accomplishing their mission. The similarities

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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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    in the book and the film is that her personality is the same she is caring and … We can see she is caring in both the book and the film because she cares for the old in the book but also cares for the babies in the film. Some differences between the book and the film is that in the book Fiona was assigned the job of Caretaker in the House of Old whereas in the film she was assigned the job of a nurturer. In the film Fiona waits to be released because she helped Jonas to escape but in the book there

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    A Separate Peace: Movie vs. Novel In comparing and contrasting the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles and the movie directed by Larry Peerce‚ I found both differences and similarities. Unlike most movie/book comparisons I found mostly comparisons. Don’t get me wrong‚ they are different but the main points are very similar. One of the biggest differences I noticed was that in the book A Separate Peace‚ Finny broke Devon’s School Record at Swimming. In the movie Finny breaks the

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