In the story, The Hound of the Baskervilles, the detectives were looking for the mysterious Hound that was tormenting the Baskerville family. Incorporated in the story are the characters Sherlock Holmes and his “sidekick” named Watson that will leave the reader anxious to keep reading. Throughout The Hound of the Baskervilles, a novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which had been altered to make into the movie, directed by David Attwood. They had been very different yet still had their similarities. In the novel and movie were many major and noticeable character changes, contrast in the endings, and the contrast in setting and clues used to solve the mystery. The author had made a novel and book to further the understanding on how the …show more content…
A character that was drastically changed had been Stapleton, where he had been the one that found the skulls of others intriguing (Attwood). Some of the character’s appearance had been different where the beard of Selden was no more and how Dr. Mortimer had looked a little older than described.Sometimes, characters would be added such as Mrs. Mortimer that had been included more in the movie. She had played a semi-important part in the movie rather than the novel. Her contribution was talking to the ghost of Sir Charles and then the hound banged on the window, which had thought to be a sign. Yet some of the characters had not changed that much, such as Holmes and Watson, where they remained the same. Also the movie ending had been from very different perspectives yet still portrayed the same effect. The ending of the movie had been very different where Watson had gotten shot and Holmes was about to die sinking into the mud/quicksand. Also Beryl the “sister” (actually the wife) of Stapleton had been hung since Stapleton had found out that she tried to warn Sir Henry about what he was planning to do. The whole ending had been altered, that when the hound was chasing Sir Henry, he had been bitten by the hound. There had been many clues in the movie to solve the mystery along with the changes in setting. One scene had been in Merripit House where Watson had visited Stapleton and his “sister” and saw an artifact that Stapleton had found. Later in the story when Sherlock Holmes had come he had noted that he had seen the artifact before that was found by someone else, yet he looked the same as Stapleton. Then he found out that the person he recognized had been a Barrymore. Also, when Holmes needed to find information about the man that was following Sir Henry in a taxi, Sherlock Holmes does not need to use violence against the taxi driver to tell him about the person he
With both the movie and the book there were similarities and differences involving the names of the characters. Justice Wargrave was known as Author Cannon in the movie. Also, Vera Claythorne was Ann Clyde. Another difference is Philip Lombard was Charles Morman in the movie. However, there were some similar names, Mr. Blores’ name continued to stay the same as well as Dr. Armstrong.
The characters make a big difference in the movie and the book. One thing they both have in common is that Otis Amber and Berthe Erica Crow get married. And that Edgar Jennings Plum and Angela Wexler get engaged instead of Doctor Denton Deere. Also Jake Wexler is a gambler instead of being a bookie.
There are many differences in the movie that were not in the book. In the movie there is a new character in the movie that was not in the book. This character was David Isay.
While watching the movie, I could see that the main characters in the book, both their names and traits, were the same in both the movie and book. However, aside from that there were many different as...
The movie and the story had some of the same characters but some weren't exactly the same. The movie introduced many different characters and changed some of the others. For example, the movie had the plant lady and had the mentor of Anderton as the founders of Precrime while in the book, Anderton was the only founder of Precrime. Also, Witwer wasn't blond he had black hair and Kapler wasn't named Kapler he was named Crow. In the story they had the red head Fleming who did not exist
There were a few other differences; that Victor is now Henry in the movie. Elizabeth
In the movie Holmes, in the beginning, was much more prideful and rude to Watson and people in general, but later on, Holmes was a lot nicer and somewhat humble at least compared to the book. This difference made the viewer feel less liking of the character of Holmes and it almost seemed that the director tried to save Holmes’s character by making him nicer at the ending. The difference had a big impact on the feeling of the movie because it felt that he was so stuck up he was rather unapproachable. ...
I have only included what I have to believe are largely important plot gaps and differences in the movie version in comparison to the book one, and so I apologize again if I have missed any other major ones. Forgive me, please.
At this point, the readers create their own movie in a way. They will determine important aspects of how the character speaks, looks like, and reacts. Whereas, in the movie, the reader has no choice but to follow the plot laid out in front of them. No longer can they picture the characters in their own way or come up with their different portrayals. The fate of the story, while still unpredictable, was highly influenced by the way the characters looked, spoke, and presented themselves on screen.
Another example of a change that was included in the movie is how the movie plays out. Some of the parts are switched and different things happened before that were not in the novel. One would be the characters. Justice Wargrave had his name changed to something that I don’t remember and the guy who ran over the kids is now a prince who ran over two people instead. He still died the same way though and while we are on the topic of death, let’s speak of Mr. Rogers.
Every quality classic novel is made into a cheesy rendition that everyone dismisses as horrible. But that might not always no be the truth, especially when comparing the book The Hound of the Baskervilles and the movie version of it. Both the book The Hound of the Baskervilles and the movie adaptation of it are very different yet very similar in more ways than one. They both use the same story and plot line, but they diverge and portray events in easily identifiable ways. The book was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - a brilliant author who wrote all of the other Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
He also included extra characters that would make the story more enticing and suspenseful or changed the characters’ personalities. In the 2002 BBC film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Laura Lyons, Mr. Frankland, and Cartwright were not included as characters. Instead, Attwood added Dr. Mortimer’s wife as a spirit spirit-obsessed character who tries to contact the spirit of Sir Charles Baskerville. David Attwood made this decision from the fear that the movie would extend the use of unimportant details, leaving the audience bored with the movie. However, he added Dr. Mortimer’s wife to add emphasis on the idea of the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles to keep the audience constantly intrigued.
The character Adso van Mellk is a Benedictine monk in the novel but in the movie they changed him to be a Franciscan monk. Also another character that they changed was Malachi, which in the movie was called Malachia. Another small little thing that wasn’t as big
Although the essence of the story is still encapsulated in both mediums, the notable distinctions of the characterization and setting choices seen in the movie caused the audiences to interpret the piece differently than the book-readers did. Alvarez 2 The main characters of Divergent were bound to be changed slightly to fit better into the movie’s portrayal of the story. Some of these changes, however, had effects on the story that caused a bit of stir in the audience afterwards.