In the age of book-to-movie adaptations, the era of the Hunger Games and the Divergent trilogy, it is no longer a question of if a popular book will be adapted into a film, but rather when. However, everyone knows that the book is always better than the movie. Or is it? A book presents a unique opportunity to display emotions and events that aren’t always possible in the film. But does that always make it better? And do the differences in the film “Pride and Prejudice” enhance, or degrade the message that Jane Austen was portraying in her book? There are many similarities between the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice and the book. For one, the Bennet family, in all aspects, is just as socially uncorrectable and crazy as they are in the book. Lydia is just as much of a brat, Mary is always saying things she shouldn’t be, and Mrs. Bennet never stops talking about her daughter's getting married. They are desperately in want of propriety. However, we do see one significant difference from the film to the book in regards …show more content…
The book was written with the time period still fresh, and therefore was more historically accurate than the film. In the book, Austen’s writing, and in turn her characters, seem more restrained and proper in their emotions. They are the ones to spit angry, hurtful words in a civil manner, and then bow on their way out. It was a different time, and a way of life that some would find boring today. In the movie, everything seems to be overdramatized in that the characters are not nearly as restrained. Darcy stares unabashed at Lizzy, not even noticing anyone else in the room. Lizzy runs up the stairs after Lady Catherine’s visit, yelling for her family to, for once in their lives to just leave her alone. Every emotion in the novel seems to be taken times ten in an attempt to make the story more compelling, which, one has to admit, kind of
All in all there were many things different about the book compared to the movie.
However, there are just as many differences between the novel and the film. For example, at the end of the novel, Melinda tells Mr. Freeman about what happened to her. In the movie, she tells her mother about the incident. This affected the relationship between Melinda and her mother as portrayed in the novel. Their relationship in the novel was not very close at all. It would’ve been very shocking if at the end of the novel, Melinda told her mother about how she was raped.
Let’s start off with the facts from the beginning all the way to the end, well let’s just say that in the movie there are many differences including all the special effects, makeup, characters, sound effects, and voice acting. Nevertheless, the book would never have those things, you could think of it as you read the book for your entertainment, but it’s not as real as the movie would appear. Even though those aren’t scenes from the movie or novel, it’s still a HUGE difference, but anyways, for the difference between them
The movie had the power to paint a picture your mind. But it didn't have that information that the book had. The movie didn't have the explaining that the
In order to compare the book and the movie there has to be differences and similarities. Some differences are when Davie was walking to the house of Shaws in the movie he was robbed, although, in the book this didn’t happen this could play a huge role in
For example, the book had a scene where it made the rest of the story a flashback, but that never happened in the movie. A second reason why the book's plot is better is that the book had more detail from what happened “The muscles in my stomach knotted and jerked”-( Rawls p.g: 76). Thirdly, the book had more meaningful or informational conversations. “I feel different now, and I don't hurt anymore”(Rawls p.g:127).
While reading the book I had a quite different visual than the movie. Things I noticed different was the way I viewed the surroundings, character traits, and the way characters looked. I viewed the background as filled with trees and houses close together. In the movie the background was more spaced out and full of farmland.
For instance, the book talks about how the greasers felt and how their feelings were, then in the movie, it didnt talk about it but it showed it. The way that they showed it was not as good as it was written. When reading we don't fall in love with the characters' appearance. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their soul. In movies we focus more on appearance and what's going on in the background, which then gets people distracted from what the character is feeling and their thoughts. On the other hand, you can see the actions of the characters in the movie, which might help you process the way they act, however with the book the author can use what he thinks and try to give people a general idea of everything. For an example in the book it talks about how Randy
Jane Austen originally wrote Pride and Prejudice in 1813 as a novel of manners. Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist, encompasses Austen’s viewpoints on the world, although Austen uses Elizabeth’s transformation through the novel to demonstrate them fully. Included on pages 11 to 12 of the novel is a passage Austen utilizes to depict major themes that recur throughout the novel. She did this by using dialogue between Elizabeth and Jane, as well as Elizabeth’s thoughts. The Bennets have recently met the Bingleys at a very informal ball. During the passage, Jane and Elizabeth discuss Mr. Bingley and his sisters, as well as their opinions of them. Austen uses sentence structure, diction that creates a cynical
The difference between the developing way of books and movies is magnificently huge because the way of emotion transmitting is different; the movie is based on vision, while the book is based on words.
In the book Elizabeth, one of the Bennet sisters is a sweet, good mannered and intelligent girl with good humor. She and her sister, Jane, are very open and share every detail of their lives. In contrast to the film were Elizabeth is often rude and petulant. And where Jane and Elizabeth have a lot of secrets for each other.
After reading a great book, it’s every reader’s wish to see it on the big screen, but after seeing several book to film adaptations, many viewers are often disappointing. Either an important detail was missed by writers and producers, or the movie was not similar to the book in any way. Walking out of a theater, you’ll hear the common phrase, “`I liked the movie, but the book was better. Actually, it's more like, “That movie sucked.”
The differences between the movie and the book include time, setting, the visual aspect of the movie, differences in characters, and certain added or deleted
The way of life in this modern society has developed itself over hundreds of years. Still, however changed, the values of today's society remain from the period of Regency England. Regency England, being the super power of the world in the 18th century, imposed the morals and ethics upon the world as they did their own country, where people were expected to abide by. Jane Austen illustrates the values of this prejudiced society through Pride and Prejudice, which involved the role of women as a major, governing over their marriages for economic sustainability and their lack of authority. Austen's controversial novel was adapted into a feature film which presented the real and gritty society as how it truly was during the time of Regency
Another notable difference between the film and the novel is the