The Birds Movie Vs Short Story

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“The vast amount of birds flocking above towns and outlying districts, causing destruction and damage to even attacking individuals.” This is a quote from the short story “The Birds,” by Daphne du Maurier. That quote is also representing the plot, which remains the same with both the story and movie, by Alfred Hitchcock. “The Birds” is presented by a short story written by author Daphne du Maurier, and a movie directed and filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. They both have the conflict of numerous birds attacking their town. Although the conflict is the same, there are several, if not more pieces that are different between the short story and the film. Minding the differences between the two, I think the short story gives off a better experience to the audience that the movie, since it is in more of an isolated setting than the movie, and has more of an apocalyptic surrounding.
As stated before, there are more differences than similarities between the short story and the film. One of the main differences …show more content…

In the movie, the setting is in Bodega Bay, San Francisco. The short story’s setting is in England. In the story, however, the bird attacks are worldwide, while the film only has one bird attack in Bodega Bay. Since the attacks in the story are worldwide, there is less hope for Nat, since there isn’t anywhere he can really hide or escape to. The movie, however, since it only has a bird attack in one town, can have the characters escape the bird-infested town and seek safety.
One last difference is that the story gives some ideas about what the birds’ reasons are for attacking. Some quotes from du Maurier's short story are “I suppose the weather brought them.” “The intense hunger may drive these birds to attack human beings.” “The Russians have poisoned the birds.” In the film, the only suggested reason was that Melanie Daniels was a witch, which was brought up by a village woman who was mad at Melanie

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