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Differences Between The Joy Luck Club Book And Movie

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The Joy Luck Club
Comparative study

The Joy Luck Club (1989), introduced the cultural values of China and America which was highly successful. It remained nine months on the Times Bestseller and was re-created into a movie which released in 1993 with the same name. Although there are not much influential differences, the visual/audio effects in movies, structures and languages, including the tones and pronunciations made some changes on the individual’s preference.

Unlike the book, the movie The Joy Luck Club added audio and visual effects to make the plot more emotional and empathic. In this case, the audio, including the background music fully demonstrated the cultural aspects of Chinese-American culture. For instance, the director solely used Chinese traditional …show more content…

In the book, each chapter tells four stories of each character by the subtitles. This was successful for the readers to understand the specific backgrounds of each story because a single section only explained one character’s story. Meaning that the book is more detailed to the movie. In the movie, the scar of Anmei was created by a simple argument from her uncle and aunt. And the scene was simple and quick which the director did not put a focal point on it. But in the book, there is a subtitle called ‘AN-MEI HSU: Scar’ and the book described a lot more details about the beginning and end of the argument. Comparatively, the movie did not portray the stories in order. The flow of the stories was more fluent because it was about mentioning a story from other character’s stories. Such as when the daughters narrated the story, the stories of their mothers were mentioned and that naturally led to their mother’s stories. This allowed the audiences to be more concentrated to every story, because the flow of the plot was natural and that helped the audiences to generally accept lots of stories at the same

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