how did it become such a cultural phenomenon? The original book‚ making of the movie‚ and the major impact of it during World War 2 all bring together this iconic film. It all started with L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” published in Chicago in 1900. Baum based the book off his every day life‚ basing characters off of adventures he had growing up in North Dakota and jobs he had before and during being an author. When
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The Hunger Games‚ the introductory novel in a trilogy book series written by author Suzanne Collins in 2008‚ is a young adult novel that surrounds a teenage girl named Katniss Everdeen in a futuristic tale of a teenager who defies all odds when they are stacked against her. She is shaken to the core with sacrifice‚ adversity and danger when she finds herself forced to compete in a televised series of games where there is only one survivor. Not only does she want to live‚ but she has an incredible
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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 to bring home
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also people that say that they are sacrificial‚ but yet there are things that they can do to be more than what they are. In the book Les Mis‚ by: Victor Hugo there are a couple people that are very sacrificial. They have done many things in the movie and the book that have done a great deed to people and they have helped saved lives. There are many characters in this book that I could argue about them being sacrificial. They put their lives in danger to help save others. People that sacrifice their
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movies. We often watch more than one movie on this special night. Last year‚ we decided to watch Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief‚ and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters. My siblings and I had read and loved the books‚ written by Rick Riordan‚ so we thought‚ “How bad could it be? It would be amazing to see these incredible stories onscreen!” We were wrong. Every member of my family who had read the books agreed that this movie destroyed the intent of the original
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anyone thought of a war movie‚ they immediately thought of Darryl F. Zanuck’s‚ The Longest Day. Cornelius Ryan‚ who was the author of the book by the same name‚ and happened to be a D-day veteran himself‚ wrote the movie. The book meticulously recreates the events preceding and during the invasion. It is filled with detailed descriptions of multiple occurrences during the invasion. It explains everything from mass attacks on beaches and towns to humorous anecdotes. The book wasn’t exactly a story
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Similarities and Differences in Characters Vs. Actors In the novel and film On the Road by Jack Kerouac‚ the choice of actors to play the major roles‚ especially that of the narrator Sal Paradise‚ was bad in that it was way off base from Kerouac’s book. Why does the choice of actors significantly differ from how they are portrayed in the novel? Because Jack Kerouac had written the novel so long ago that he did not have the knowledge or wording to explain or show how they are portrayed in the film
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The story‚ and movie “The Speckled Band” have many similarities. Julia’s room in both the story‚ and movie was the same. In the movie it looked exactly like what was described in the book. Also when Julia’s hair started to whiten. In the movie you could see when she was just about to die her hair did start to turn a grayish-white‚ and in the book it said that her hair was starting to turn white too. Also when Dr.Roylott came into Sherlock’s office Sherlock was calm. In the movie Sherlock was very
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October 12‚ 2010 B5 Composition & Grammar Watching Movies: At Home vs. Going to the Theaters When deciding between watching a movie/video at home and watching a movie/video in a theater‚ most people base their decision on many things. Some major components people factor in before making a decision on which is way of watching movies is better are cost‚ comfort‚ control‚ and quality. Each and every one of these things affects the viewer
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Even considering the complicated format of the book‚ David Fincher managed to almost perfectly illustrate the novel Fight Club‚ by Chuck Palahniuk‚ in his movie of the same name. Although tempting to compare a book and its film counterpart on even grounds‚ as a substitute of one another‚ the tools used to create each one differ greatly and thus should be evaluated on a thematic level. While the reading audience has the chance to reread‚ and absorb the themes in layers‚ the other audience is seeing
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