One beautiful day in the Lowlands of Scotland a boy is leaving his house because his father has died and he wants to move out. A man named Mr. Campbell helps Davie find out about the house of Shaws, a house he can move into and has inherited from his father. This is the start of the book kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson. The start of the movie Kidnapped is different in the beginning. For example, in the start of the movie Kidnapped Davie’s and his father are in his house before Davie moves out. Davie’s father is telling Davie about the Shaws. The purpose for this essay is to tell my readers about the similarities and differences between the book and the movie Kidnapped, and to inform my readers which one I preferred. Even though the …show more content…
In the novel, no one gets caught, but the movie tries to show what happens in real life by showing James of the Glens getting interviewed and arrested. None of this happens in the novel, instead in the novel James only provides them shelter and information and doesn’t get captured whatsoever. In the movie, James has a daughter who plays an important role in rescuing James from getting hung. In the book, James does not have a daughter and doesn’t need one since he doesn’t get captured, so doesn’t need rescuing. Instead, it is just Davie and Alan trying to escape. That is one of the reasons I preferred the novel. However, even though there were many differences, there were plenty of similarities as well. For example, in the novel when Alan and Davie are climbing the mountain they get captured by Clooney and his gang. They think they’re done for but then they discover it was just Clooney. In the movie this happens the same way, except, in the movie after Alan and Davie get captured they think Clooney is a kannibal. Another similarity is that Alan and Clooney play cards all night. In the novel, while Alan and Clooney are playing cards Alan uses Davie’s money and loses it all. This happens the same in the movie, except in the novel there is no description of them playing cards. In the movie you can see them playing cards. In conclusion, there were lots of differences and similarities between the film and the
Have you ever read a book and then watched the movie and saw many differences? Well you can also find lots of similarities. In the book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the movie “Tom and Huck” there are many similarities and differences having to do with the characters personalities, the setting, the characters relationships with one another and the events that take place.
So many books or pieces of literature have been made into films. At times the films can mirror exactly what the author wrote and hoped to convey, but often films can either create this sense of enhancement of the book or distort it completely due to more or less background information and a change the perspective of the main character. The book Into the Wild, written by John Krakauer was one of those movies that was recreated into film by director Sean Penn. This is a story of a young man who is unsettled with the poisoned ways of society. He goes on to destroy his previous identity and creates a new one, he abandons his home, car, life-savings, and family life to live on the road and in the wilderness of Alaska. It was mentioned he was trying to escape society as a whole and find himself and happiness. Both the book and the film follow a pretty consistent plot that correlate with each other, both making it evident that Chris was a polarizing subject. So, why does the book portray Chis McCandles as a charismatic, outgoing, well-educated nice kid, as where the movie portrays him more as foolish, immature, unprepared boy biting off more than he can chew? It all depends on your interpretation of both sources within the given information. The following comparison will address the book versus film version of Into the Wild and raise the issue of the amount of background information given in the book versus the film and the change in perspective of the main character Christoper Johnson McCandles.
Each version also has the main characters boarding up the windows. Anyone who thought the birds won’t attack are usually found dead, but in the movie they are found with their eyes pecked out. Also, both the story and the movie have REALLY bad endings! They aren’t very similar, but they both leave you hanging. When you see a movie or read a book you want to know what happens to the main characters. In these two, you didn’t get an ending. They left you hanging and for some people that ruins it all.
There are many similarities presented to the audience between the movie and the novel. One
For all the differences the film had from the novel, it was basically the same story just told in a more cheerful way and was more about the Joad family. However, the differences did not take away from the film; they might have made the film even better. No matter how different the film was from the novel, they both have succeeded in their own respective fields and remain classics to this
There are usually differences in two different versions of something. This can often be seen when a book is made into a movie. There are many similarities and differences in the book and movie versions of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
The film that was produced after the novel has a lot of differences and not as
As most everyone knows, there are differences between a book and it’s movie adaptation. This is applicable to the book and it’s movie counterpart To Kill a Mockingbird, as well. But aside from the differences, there are also similarities between these two.
Though the events and a lot of the dialogue are the same in both the book and the movie the crux of the two are completely different. The book focuses a lot more on sexual tension and sexual exploration. The...
In both the novel and movie focus on the war. The war influences the characters to enroll.Also, the main setting is at the Devon School. However, in the novel Gene visits Leper at his house but in the movie Leper lives in the woods.In the novel Gene is coming back to the Devon School 15 years later.However, in the book he is coming to Devon as a new student.Therefore, similarities and differences exist in time and setting in the novel and the movie.In the novel and the movie there are similarities and differences in events, character, and time and setting.
“My life was taken from me-by one of you !” ( Raskin, pg. 34). In the book The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin a series of roller coasters comes up in this murder mystery. This story has an up and down of emotional events. The Westing Game book and movie contains many similarities and differences that are worth exploring.
In conclusion, details involving the characters and symbolic meanings to objects are the factors that make the novel better than the movie. Leaving out aspects of the novel limits the viewer’s appreciation for the story. One may favor the film over the novel or vice versa, but that person will not overlook the intense work that went into the making of both. The film and novel have their similarities and differences, but both effectively communicate their meaning to the public.
The “Life of Pi” book to movie compare and contrast is one of many differences and similarities that all either add to the effectiveness of the movie or take away from it. Some similarities remain that keep the movie in line with the book, however, there are many differences that leave gaps in Pi’s life story. The “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel is a rather extensive book that adds many details to almost everything. The movie cuts down those details and gets to the main point of the story as not to bore the audience. Some details that get left out make the story a little bit harder to comprehend, however, other details that get eliminated add to the excitement of the movie. In any book to movie compare and contrast there will be similarities and
The book, "Being There," is about a man named Chance, who is forced to move out of the house he lived in his whole life and his experience in the outside world. Based on the success of the book, the movie, "Being There," was made. The author of the book, Jerzy Kosinski, also wrote the screenplay for the movie. I think the major difference between the book and the movie is that in the book, we get to read what Chance is feeling and thinking, but in the movie, we only get to see his actions.
“Help, Help, Murder!” screamed Davie has he rode away on the boat. He looked at his uncle paddling away with a look of terror. In that second Davie realized he had been kidnapped. Then he felt a shot of fire throughout his body and fell to the ground senseless. Davie is the protagonist in Kidnapped and he was supposed to inherit the estate. On the contrast his uncle, Ebenezer, did not want to give him the estate so he had Davie kidnapped. I am writing this essay to inform you that the movie kidnapped and the book had many differences and similarities. However, the movie was better than the book.