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    novel into his book, The Hound of the Baskervilles. One could say he got all of the right ingredients to make an amazing recipe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did such a magnificent job with his mystery novel; it was later turned into a film. Even though the film was based off of the book; there were some key differences between the two. This will be pointing out some of the many similarities and differences from the book and the film. Specifically,

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    similarities between the book and the movie version than there are differences. They both have the same setting and all the scenes take place in the apartment of the Wingfields. All the characters also remain the same consisting of only Amanda Wingfield, her children Tom and Laura, and Jim O’Connor the gentleman caller. One difference between the book and the movie is the use of the music. The Glass Menagerie is a memory play and at the beginning of both the book and the movie, Tom states, “In memory

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    Freedom writers paper Comparing and contrasts with the movie and the book. In the book it start with a lot of violence and they start talking about the gangs. Eva start off by saying that they took away her dad for nothing and she knew that it was true that they took her dad for nothing; because she was right there sitting down playing with dolls, and she seen everything happen, and how they shoot the guy, and they blamed her dad about it they just wanted to close the case so they just blamed

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    Buchanan, a married woman and Nick’s cousin. Since the book was published in 1925, numerous filmmakers have tried their hand at bringing Fitzgerald’s novel to the screen, generally without much success in accurately portraying the essence of the book. The 1974 film however, directed by Jack Clayton and starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow and Sam Waterston,

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    More Than Just a Comic Book The Dark Knight is more than just a comic book movie. Analyzing the movie with the different schools of thought: utilitarianism, deontology, and Kantian Ethics, proves fruitful in the search for a deeper moral meaning. The movie explores the limits of the human spirit, and aims at the implications of placing a person in a no win situation. Analyzing the story from a kantian perspective allows a viewer to obtain more from the story rather than just entertainment. In The

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    William Golding's, Lord of the Flies, was first brought to the big screen in 1963 and then remade in 1990, both films had major plot moments from the book just as Golding wrote them and some were altered. The 1963 film, directed by Peter Brook, was shot in black and white, in the first week of filming the on the Island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, the Bay of Pigs Invasion began. This impacted filming because the wounded were evacuated to the U.S. naval hospital on Vieques. The 1990 version, directed

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    later on in the story, is referred to in the film with intensity, “He moved his head slightly and I caught a glimpse of his. Saw the resignation in it. It was a look I had seen before. It was the look of the lamb.” Amir’s coward reaction in the movie and book (towards the rape scene) is evident in

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    In the movie industry, it is common to change small - or large - details when adapting a literary piece into a film. Directors do this mainly to keep the audience entertained, because there are parts of books that cannot be transferred onto a screen. They also alter the original story s that the director is given an opportunity to create the film he or she wants. By changing different aspects from the book, the director is able to create a different setting, character, or mood for their film. In

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    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

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    The Giver is a movie and a book about a boy named Jonas and how he becomes the receiver and brings memories to his community. Basically, the community is a place Jonas lives in and it’s been created in the ruins. The community is idiosyncratic from all the sameness and precision of language. The community is this futuristic place that has erased love, hatred, sadness, and other emotions. The only thing community has is sameness. The chief elder has eliminated all the memories from the citizens. The

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