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    Pygmalion Play Vs Movie

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    When you watch the movie The Makeover‚ featuring famous actress Julia Stiles‚ you may notice that it resembles something that you might have read in your English 1104 class. The movie might remind you of the play‚ Pygmalion‚ written by George Bernard Shaw. It is the story of a phonetics professor who trains an ordinary flower girl to act like a sophisticated young lady. It is based off a Greek legend where a man named Pygmalion wanted to create the perfect statue. He made her so perfect that he fell

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    Comparison of the hunger games book and the movie (Highlights) The hunger games Written by Suzanne Collins Summary: In a dystopian future‚ the totalitarian nation of Panem is divided between 12 districts and the Capitol. Each year two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment‚ part brutal retribution for a past rebellion‚ the televised games is broadcast throughout Panem. The 24 participants are forced to eliminate

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    The ‘‘ Outsiders’’ is a Movie & Novel are interesting and cool. Watching both they appear to be similar. After watching the movie & reading the novel they also have distinct differences. Well the movie & novel have some similarities. They feature the same characters. Soda‚Darry‚Dally‚Johnny‚Tim Shepherd‚Ponyboy‚the Farmer‚Steve‚Two-Bit. In the movie and the novel the church burns down. The kids were in the church and the church was burning.Ponyboy & Johnny saves the kids.one of the kids

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    Novel vs. Movie The differences and the similarities between the novel "The Pelican Brief" by John Grisham and the movie "The Pelican Brief" by Alan J. Pakula film. There were maybe similarities between the novel and the movie. The story line and plot were basically the same in both the novel and the movie. Then there were also many differences when the novel was made in to a movie. As in most cases when a novel is made in to a movie there are certain things that are left out in the movie version

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    Often books become so popular that they are changed into movies. The directors often take the liberties to keep them the same. In Gary Sinise’s version of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men there are many significant changes. Although symbols are used in both versions viewers lose out on the foreshadowing of the red and the thematic aspect of solitaire. The absence of foreshadowing to the color red changes the viewers meaning behind the symbol. In the first scene of the movie a woman is running down

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    Many books have been made into movies. Although we may have enjoyed the book‚ we may not enjoy the movie. One book that was made into a movie recently and had many things different in them is Beautiful Creatures. There are three main things that are different throughout the story in the movie compared to the book. One thing that was different was the characters or cast. Then another thing that stood out the most was the friendship and chemistry between Lena and Ethan. The last thing that

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    The movie and book Of Mice and Men are rather similar‚ however there are major differences. For example‚ in the beginning of the book John Steinbeck starts by describing the scenic pond where the exposition begins‚ and the movie opens up with the scene of a girl in a red dress frantically running while Lennie and George are trying to elude men with guns. On the other hand‚ when George is describing their dream of owning their very own farm‚ the description in both the book and movie are the same

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    Christmas Carol” is a very famous story. It has had movies made for it. The movie version of this story is more appealing to me than the story versions of the movie has a better set of mood and is better worded than the book. This story has many similarities to the television form. The many similarities are mostly are based on the actions of a character and what they say to other characters. In the first chapter of the book has the similarity of how Scrooge locked himself in his bedroom with 2 locks

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    between the movie and the book. This essay‚ hopefully‚ will answer some of those questions. The author of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is Rudyard Kipling. The story starts with a flood that washed a mongoose out of his home. A family kindly takes him in‚ knowing he was cold and hungry. The mongoose helps to protect the family‚ and himself‚ from two evil snakes‚ who is trying to become Queen and King of the garden once more. There are many similarities and a few differences between the book and the movie such as

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    Beowulf Vs Movie Essay

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    My first impression about this movie Beowulf 2007 it was okay‚ the acting was good but‚ not amazing the rating of this movie was 6/10 and won 2 awards‚ and 17 nominations. For my opinion they should do live action instead of 3d animation and stay focus the setting of the story and the person who directed the movie Beowulf 2007 was Robert Zemeckis‚ he was the writer of Back to the Future part I‚II‚III and producer of The Polar Express. The beginning of the movie all based on literature version

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