Rad Bradbury's The Pedestrian

Bolinger (the creator of the film) did a decent job of transitioning the short story to a film, but their was a lot of changes that made the movie a tad bit different than the regular short story. Many times when a creator of a movie tries to recreate a short story into a film, they put it into what they see when they vision the short story and stuff they wanted to add into the film. Which is usually different than what the normal reader visions when he thinks about The Pedestrian. “The major difference between books and film is that visual images stimulate our perceptions directly” (PBS). So knowing this it's obvious that Bolinger had a different point of view of The Pedestrian then Rad Bradbury (the writer of the short story The Pedestrian)

The film and the movie had the same plot and such but their was enough differences to confuse people. In the book instead of it being illegal, it was more of an usual thing to be walking outside. “What are you doing out? … Walking, just walking, walking?” (Bradbury 50). In the movie Leonard Mead and his friend get scared about getting caught by the helicopter and Leonard held himself responsible so his friend Bob Stockwell would not get in trouble which brings up a new piece of evidence. In the book Leonard is by himself, however in the film he is walking with a friend named Bob Stockwell. “He would stand upon the corner of and intersection and peer down long moonlit avenues of sidewalk in four directions, deciding which way to go, but it really made no difference; he was alone in the world of A.D. 2053” (Bradbury 47). According to the book Leonard is all alone, on the other hand it shows in the film that he has a friend he adventures with. He goes to his house and convinces Bob to come with him. The differences of the book and the film may confuse people, but they were done to improve the book and

Making a film out of literature does not make sense because every single person has a different perspective about books when you read them because you picture it differently in your head. Bolinger made his film with his perspective changing everyone else's point of view on the short story making it a little difficult for people to view the film with a different perspective. Sometimes filmmakers usually add changes from the short story into the movie to make the film easier to make, but it is confusing to other people, i feel like filmmakers shouldn't just put in some random changes in a movie based of a short story that already has everything in it. The Pedestrian was a good short story but I feel like the film based on it wasn’t as good as a job, I believe the team that worked on the film left out the feeling of loneliness by adding Bob into the mix and changed to many things to where it still worked but was not as enjoyable as reading the short story, I’m not just saying this about only The Pedestrian but all other movies that are based on books besides Harry Potter and other great