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

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