And Then There Were None Movie And Book Comparison

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In the movie productions of And Then There Were None and A Wrinkle in Time, the directors did not follow the original storyline. The changes made in the films caused a great impact on the story. In both films, the introduction and finale were different compared to the book. The two movies also strayed away from sequence and details. All of which made the directors of the films depart from the original plot.
And Then There Were None consists of a myriad amount of differences. At the beginning of the story, all of the guests are on their separate ways going to the dock where they will meet and sail towards the island. The movie version, however, does not begin the same way the book did. Unlike in the book, the guests are seen all crammed into …show more content…

Included in the book, the characters are on a train reading the letters they had received prior to the vacation. The director most likely eliminated this scene because later on in the movie the guests discuss why they were called to the island, which was included in the letters. The finale of the movie was modified as well. The denouement in the book resulted in everyone perishing. Vera was scared that Lombard was the murderer and decided to shoot him with his revolver. She later hung herself. In the movie version of the book, Vera is seen shooting Lombard, just as it was done in the book. There was a big plot twist when Wargrave came back to explain that he was the one responsible for the murders. As Wargrave tried to persuade Ms. Claythorne to kill herself, Lombard comes back and finds out the truth as well. The judge then drinks a purposely poisoned drink and dies. After this, Fred Narracott, the one who sailed the guests on the boat to the island, arrived to take everyone back to the mainland. Ms. Claythorne and Lombard happily skipped out of the house heading for the boat. This dissimilarity impacts the viewer by not going by the nursery rhyme …show more content…

Madeleine L’Engle, the author, begins the story with the main character, Meg, sitting in her room during a thunderstorm. Meg decides to leave her room and head down stairs. She finds her little brother, Charles Wallace, sitting at the kitchen table making sandwiches. In the film production of the book, this scene is not introduced until after the commencement. The directors most likely made this difference because they felt that this scene was the most important and should be saved for later. They probably viewed this scene as most important because later on the character Ms. Whatsit is introduced, who plays a major role. This impacts the story by allowing the viewers to understand the least important to the most paramount scenes. The directors of the film also failed to include the original antagonist featured in the book. The disembodied brain, also known as IT, was the character who captured Charles Wallace under his spell. In the movie, the man with the red eyes put Charles Wallace under his control. The directors probably changed this scene to reduce confusion within the audience about which character was which between the man with the red eyes and IT. This impacts the story by not allowing the spectator to see the scene where Charles Wallace, under the control of IT, angrily takes Meg, her father, and Calvin to see IT after they had disobeyed him. This scene helps viewers

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