Movie vs. Book Essay

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.” This is my favorite quote from the popular book written by Galye Foreman in 2009, and then later created into a movie in 2014 called if I stay. The story about Mia, the 17 year old high school student who plays the cello and is totally obsessed with classical music. After a tragic car accident, she gets the rare opportunity to reflect on her entire life. Mia begins to have an out-of-body experience where she becomes separated from

The age old question of whether the book is better than the movie. There is much more to it than that when you consider how the effect of their means of production, textual forms, technologies, affect the messages being portrayed. Marshall McLuhan famously said, “The medium is the message.” I don’t believe that the media of production is indistinguishable to the message because the content still exists as a separate entity to that of its form, however I agree to some extent with McLuhan’s proposed

Outsiders: Book Vs. Movie On April 24, 1967, a remarkable book was published by eighteen year old S. E. Hinton. After gaining its popularity in home and at schools, Francis Coppola decided to make a movie based on the book in 1983. Since then, both have become exceedingly popular selling 13 million copies of the book and grossing over 25 million dollars from the movie. However, even though the movie and the book are extremely similar, the book is far more superior when compared to the movie. Starting

Rikki-tikki-tavi is the one. The book by Rudyard Kipling and the movie Rikki-tikki-tavi are similar and different in a couple ways. The similarities and differences are in: characters, setting, and conflict. The first aspect that is similar or different is in characters. In the book is first. Rikki-tikki was found by the boy and his mother.(book) Also, Nag and his wife are the “rulers” of the garden.(book) Second is the movie. Rikki-tikki is found by the boy and his father.(movie) As well, Nag and his

The movie and the book, Unbroken, show differences from what happened in the movie and what really happened in the book. The movie shows scenes that the book doesn’t include, Jolie does this to make the movie more interesting. Zamperini never met the “Bird”, he requested to meet with him but he denied the meeting. When Zamperini was stranded on the raft in the ocean they truly ate shark and fished with the dead bird they killed. In the film, Unbroken, director Angelina Jolie added some events and

Although the movie, The Cay had a lot of action, the novel by Theodore Taylor was much more descriptive and had a lot more detail. The book is very exciting and the reader always wants to see what will happen next. The movie is not as exciting and doesn't really have a lot of detail. Also the movie does not have very good quality. I also think that the book was mostly based on Philip’s prejudice but in the movie it doesn’t really show how Philip is prejudice. In the novel there are many more characters

novel, The Hobbit, written by, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, directed by Peter Jackson, is about a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. In the story, he meets a wizard named Gandalf, who sends him on an adventure. On his adventure, he travels with dwarves, encounters goblins, trolls, a magic ring, and many other interesting things and creatures. In the Hobbit movie, Jackson makes a few non-effective changes in the movie scene when Gollum, and Bilbo first meet. These changes

Have you ever noticed how different it is to read a book then to see the movie, or the other way around? Well in The Book Thief, Drama/War, 2013, Brian Percival, the differences between the film and the novel are small, but in a setting like this where comparing and contrasting the two on a certain theme/idea, those small differences start to grow to be bigger than life. So I believe that in the film, the viewer can more clearly see the theme -”No matter how much evil there is, the good in a single

The Book Thief Movie Evaluation There are many disparities between the book and movie version of The Book Thief. Not only do the two scripts utilize the characters in different ways, but the list of characters itself is different. A noticeable difference between the book and movie is the use of Death. Death in the book gives the reader insight, expresses personal emotion, and tells jokes. Whereas Death in the movie is heard a mere two or three times simply introducing the movie setting, or commenting

The Book Thief is a historical fiction book that takes place in Molching, Germany. The book focuses on Liesel Meminger, a girl who had recently been shipped off to live with her foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubermann. While at her new home, Liesel begins to learn to read and write, which leads to her new hobby of stealing books. Liesel’s foster family hides a Jewish man in their basement, so they live in constant fear that he will be caught.The movie is attempting to show what it was like during