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    When you read a book you have it is a must to use your imagination to build the world of your book. A person must use their mind to be able to describe what they think a character may sound like‚ look like‚ mannerisms‚ clothes they would wear‚ and where they live. But when is comes to most movies‚ sadly the use of your imgaination is not needed. In the movie industry today it has become common practice to adept a book into a movie. But with the legnths most movies run‚ which is about an hour and

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    The movie itself is very much different from the book. The story was also changed with some of the plot. The movie and the book are both still following the same story line. Along with the same ending. This is what I have noticed between the movie and the book. Number one is that the old man was cruel to the young man. Unlike in the book where it says and I quote “The old man had never wronged me”. That was huge difference. This change also gave him a different reason to kill the old man. That was

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    breathtaking costumes‚ the movie Troy was a Hollywood movie that was certainly a box office hit. I am not sure if you know this but Troy was based on the Iliad an epic by Homer. Aside from the excitement during the movie‚ unfortunately it proved to be a loose adaptation of Homer’s classic and I could not help but notice the major differences between the book and the movie. One of the most major differences between the book and the movie was the absence of the Gods in the movie. In Homer’s Iliad‚ the

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    Ever read a book‚ and then see the movie of the story? The novel and movie‚ The Outsiders‚ had many similarities and many differences. The Outsiders is an excellent tale by S. E. Hinton‚ and the movie was high-quality as well. There was a huge variation between the two. There were also tiny details that were precisely the same. The novel and movie had many similarities and differences. The similarities are a huge part of what makes the movie great. The movie and the novel both had the complete

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    The movie “The Outsiders” and the book “The Outsiders” are close to being the same‚but not quite. They both have the same characters and the same setting. The differences from the book compared to the movie are that in the beginning Ponyboy the main character doesn’t get jumped. Another difference is that Tim Sheperd was never at the movie theater‚but there are some similarities. Here are some of the similarities between the two. Bob is still killed by Johnny. The same thing happens in the movie

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    Sweeney Todd Context

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    Introduction “Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” is a well known play and musical capturing the audience’s attention as to what can happen behind closed doors. I will be reporting the background context of the musical and how Victorian life could influence the storyline and characters. I will cover historical‚ social‚ political‚ economical‚ cultural and technical aspects of the musical. “Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (which I will now refer to as “Sweeney Todd”) originated

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    Beowolf Book vs Movie

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    Shaun Swersky       11/6/12 Language Arts "Beowulf" Book Vs Movie A long time ago a legendary story called "Beowulf" was told.  It spoke of a man being stronger then any other man and killing horrible monsters for the Danes.  Then in 2007 a 3D movie was released it also told of Beowulf and him fighting monsters for the Danes but the story and the movie was told a bit differently. First off in the book when Beowulf encounters Grendel’s mother he kills her by cutting her head off with a

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    “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house‚ I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.” In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy is not the ordinary fourteen- year- old boy for he is a greaser‚ a poor person known to be a public disgrace from the East side of town. All of his life he has been living as a nothing compared to the Socs‚ the rich kids from the West-side. He doesn’t know if he should be proud of who he is until his entire world

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    many different ways there are some discrete similarities and differences between the movie and the book causing different outcomes to occur. Some interpret beowulf as this hero or as somewhat a greedy man who hungers for power‚ the reader could see the monsters that attack the hall as a form of a curse‚ even the overall plotline could be altered to benefit the form of literature being used. In the novel and the movie the story is quite similar. There is a large threat being shown which is grendel

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    Antigone: Movie vs Book

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    concept most living people have never seen before. So that is probably the reason why the book and the movie are so different. In the book‚ there are little breaks from the story where the chorus steps in and talks about what is going on‚ what the gods would say and other things like that. But in the movie‚ they have a narrator that can talk to the audience and the people in the play. In the beginning of the movie‚ the narrator starts talking to the audience about the lonely girl sitting on the stairs

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