The Most Dangerous Game Book Vs Movie Essay

The Most Dangerous Game Essay

Do you not like how hollywood changes books to fit the big screen? This essay will compare and contrast The Most Dangerous Game movie and short story. I will be comparing characterization, setting, and plot. There will be five paragraphs, with at least six - seven sentences. This essay will show all the differences that hollywood changed on the movie from the original short story. The integrity of the story is affected by the many differences and similarities in the areas of initiating events, characterization, and plot between the story and movie The Most Dangerous Game.

First is characterization, with the differences. The character from the story Whitney is no longer in the movie at all. General Zaroff is renamed Count Zaroff in the movie. In the movie at Zaroff’s mansion, there were two siblings, a man and woman, who are there that were not present in the short story. Finishing the difference is the Zaroff has more than one servant in the movie, as in the short story he had more than one. The only characters that remained detailed somewhat the same was Rainsford.

Moving to initiating event, or setting, starting with differences.

Rainsford does not have dinner once he meets Zaroff, same as the short story, as that would then initiate where Zaroff tells Rainsford what he hunts on the island. In the movie to tell what Zaroff is hunting he brings the person who he will begin hunting to his trophy room, which has skulls of the humans he killed, we see this for the first time when Zaroff brings the male that was shipwrecked with his sister to the trophy room on one night. The setting of the house is quite different as the mansion in the short story version has electricity, in the movie they carry a torch, and candles litter the castle. The original story’s island may have been different, as Zaroff tells Rainsford that there is a swamp, but with only quicksand. In the movie however there was an alligator in the swamp on the

island.
Finally will be plot, there is a lot, so I will try to summarize the most important differences and the small amount of similarities. Rainsford does not hear gunshots from Zaroff on the island, while he is on the yacht. Zaroff’s game is now limited to only one day of hunting Rainsford, while in the story Rainsford had to survive three whole days in the wilderness being hunting during the night most of the time. Zaroff’s dogs do not die from Rainsford traps, as one died from the malay mantrap and the burmese tiger pit trap. Rainsford did not dig out a pit for the burmese tiger pit trap, he used a canyon in the movie. For some similarities, Zaroff does offer Rainsford the chance to hunt humans with him on the island. Rainsford says somewhere in the movie and book that the world only consists of the hunted and hunters.
In conclusion, the movie had a lot of differences than the story version. We can tell that hollywood had changed some parts of the story entirely, for example adding the female to add a sort of damsel in distress feel to the movie. We can also see that they had some similarities between the movie and story, for example, He made all the same traps in the movie and book. The book and movie had many differences, and that proves that Hollywood changes things to fit the general audience. The movie had some stereotyping as well, with the female and such. Even though the book and movie had some differences the movie helps show a representation of what the book is on the big screen.