Essay On The Most Dangerous Game Book Vs Movie

Inside the Hunt

As the great comedian, Paul Rodriguez, once said, “Hunting is not a sport. In a sport both sides should know that they’re in the game.” Like in one of the most iconic pieces of literature and its movie adaptations, The Most Dangerous Game has a man named Sanger Rainsford who is considered to be a world-class hunter, scouts and kills animals for fun. But his view of hunting is quickly changed when he was forced onto the other side of the hunt. And now the hunter has become the hunted. The book and the movie adaptation have many similarities, but at the same time there is a countless number of differences

The book version starts with Sanger Rainsford is sailing with a group of friends on his yacht. He walks out out of his room to get a quick smoke break. Rainsford clumsily falls overboard without anyone noticing him, and later swims to an isolated island named Shipwreck Island. Covered in jungle, he believes that he has no chance of someone rescuing him. Rainsford hears the screech of what sounds like an animal in agony. So he decides to track the source of the screech.BANG, He hears a loud gunshot that quickly ends the screech, so he decides to go in that general direction. Then Rainsford encounters what seems to be the only two other people on the island, the insane Russian General Zaroff and his

behemoth of an assistant, Ivan. Sanger Rainsford was allowed to stay in General Zaroff’s house. Ivan shows Rainsford the room where he can stay at. During dinner, Zaroff tells Rainsford that he had discovered a new kind of species to hunt, humans.
General Zaroff has an interesting background.When he was a child, he shot his fathers turkey, which led him to a love of hunting.General Zaroff also had a military background, which made him go mad. So, with the mixture of hunting and killing people, that gave him a lust for human blood. Zaroff began to hunt any newcomer that has taken steps on the island, that is why there is only one other person living in the island with him. Rainsford decides that he will go to bed. When early morning came, he is awakened by a loud gunshot. Rains ford demands to leave the island immediately. Zaroff does not allow him to, and forces him to take part in his so called “game”. The game is that Zaroff will hunt Rainsford down for three straight days, and if Rainsford survives he is allowed to leave the island. Rainsford runs to the other side of the jungle and set up a trap that was meant to kill Zaroff. But sadly, it ends up only hurting Zaroff and Zaroff claims that he will kill him the next day.
Rainsford continues to run deeper and deeper into the jungle, but falls into a pit of quicksand.

One of Zaroff’s hounds is nearby and charges straight for Rainsford. He manages to escape just in time and tricks the hound to fall into the pit and die. In the distance he notices Zaroff, Ivan, and their vicious hounds. He quickly escapes from that situation, until he reaches the edge of a cliff. Instead of facing the Zaroff and his dogs, he decides to jump off the cliff into the body of water under it. Surprised by that Zaroff heads back to his house, but waiting for him is Rainford standing in his bedroom. Rainsford kills Zaroff, and sleeps in his

bed.
The movie adaptation has many differences, starting with some minor changes to just changes that massively affect the plot of the story.The movie starts out with Sanger Rainsford having a chat with his associates who are sailing with him. Then suddenly, the boat crashes and the only one to survive the crash was Sanger Rainsford. Floating unconscious, Rainsford drifts to the island named Brac Island instead of Shipwreck Island. He hears the sound of a birdlike screech (which was supposed to be a gunshot) and decides to track where the sound came from. And Rainsford later encounters the evil Count Zaroff, along with two other people. One of them was Zaroff’s giant assistant Ivan and a beautiful woman named Eve Trowbridge, who was just an added character to make the movie look more attractive to a multitude of audiences.
Count Zaroff decides to play a game with Rainsford. Count Zaroff hunts down Rainsford in just a one day span. Rainsford takes Eve with him into the jungle because they had made a connection before. When they get a big lead on Zaroff, they decide to build a trap that hopefully might kill him. It ends up barely skinning him, so he decides to go back to his house to recover from the injury.