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Hound Of The Baskervilles Comparison Essay

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When a movie is based off a book, there will be a significant difference. The movies are different so that the can keep the audience's attention. They will typically contain more of what audiences want to see. They are for people who already read the book. This essay is comparing The Hound of the Baskervilles book and the BBC Hound of the Baskervilles Movie, and which is suitable for a wider variety of audiences. The Hound of the Baskervilles book and movie can be watched by a diverse set of audiences. As usual, the movie and the book are very different, but follow the same plot, and end up with the same results as the book. There are scenes in the movie that are not in the book, to entertain the audience. Some scenes are overdramatized, also for the entertainment of the audience. But some of these scenes are very intense, and it may scare the younger audience, and put nasty, disturbing pictures in people’s head. It may not be for the faint-hearted. The Hound of the Baskervilles movie contained graphic scenes that the book did not. The book can contain very descriptive detail that can be disturbing, in which in a few scenes, it did. It contained some really intense action as well, putting the audience on the edge of their seats. The movie had way more action scenes than the …show more content…

The book only contains words, which lets you decide and imagine the scene. The movie showed actual people, with semi-realistic blood, and animated effects. In the movie, they included fake blood on the characters playing dead, or seriously hurt. When one of the characters gets mauled by the hound, it contains loose body parts, which was disturbing. It was also more realistic than the book. Contrarily, The backdrops and setting were more realistic. But since it was more realistic, it was also more

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