“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.” A quote said by Madeleine L’Engle in the best selling novel and amazing movie, “A Wrinkle In Time”.This story is about a girl named Meg Murry who goes on a journey with the help of Charles Wallace, Calvin O’keefe, and the three Mrs.W’s (Mrs.Whatsit, Mrs. Who, Mrs.Which) to find her father who disappeared. Nothing will stop Meg from getting to her father, even if it means risking her life. The storyline is absolutely great but the book would have to be more powerful than the movie because of many reasons. In the movie, they left out a lot of important scenes and characters that were important to the book and added scenes to the movie that left us even more confused that were also irrelevant. …show more content…
For example in the movie, Meg Murry, the main character had a bully named Veronica. She was never in the book and the book was fine without her which made her existence in the movie irrelevant. Also, beast was never in the movie but in the book. They even went as far as to changing the setting of scenes. When the kids met the red eyed man in the book on page 127, they met in the Central Intelligence Building but in the movie they met the red eyed man in a crowded beach. This proves the story is better because the movie mixed up and switched a lot of the events that left us thinking how irrelevant these events and characters are. The movie would be fine without the extra characters they added and how they changed the settings because the book was fine without it as
In conclusion, details involving the characters and symbolic meanings to objects are the factors that make the novel better than the movie. Leaving out aspects of the novel limits the viewer’s appreciation for the story. One may favor the film over the novel or vice versa, but that person will not overlook the intense work that went into the making of both. The film and novel have their similarities and differences, but both effectively communicate their meaning to the public.
As you can all see the movie for once is actually better than the book in showing the
The movie easily cut out very important parts of the story. The beginning of the book is so important because you really get the feel for the weird mother-daughter relationship between Astrid and her Mother. In the movie you only get to see a small portion of how Astrid’s Mother treats her. Also, in the movie they do not tell the whole story about Astrid’s Mother and the man that she murdered. I could go on and on listing the many things that we left out that are so important to the story.
Of the many changes made between the book and the movie, most were made to keep the audience interested in the story. Most people who watch TV don’t have a long attention span. Executives at NBC didn’t want to spend millions to produce a movie and then have nobody watch it. The screenwriters had to throw in some clever plot twists to keep people interested. Another reason the movie was different from the book was the material in the book was a little too racy for network TV. Take the ending, for example, nobody wants to see a grown man hang himself. This was a reason the producers had to change some material in the movie.
A Wrinkle In Time is an example of great American literature. It is a plot-based novel with something always happening while an obstacle is standing in the way. Most of the conflict occurring in this book is person versus self and person versus supernatural. A certain aspect that is very prevalent in this book is love. This love takes the characters on the trip of a lifetime, for the sole purpose of finding her father. This love in the background is not known by the reader until the last few pages, and ends up encompassing and explaining the whole novel.
A Wrinkle in Time is the story of Meg Murry, a high-school-aged girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces that hold him prisoner on another planet. At the beginning of the book, Meg is a homely, awkward, but loving girl, troubled by personal insecurities and her concern for her father, who has been missing for over a year. The plot begins with the arrival of Mrs. Whatsit at the Murry house on a dark and stormy evening. Although she looks like an eccentric tramp, she is actually a celestial creature with the ability to read Meg's thoughts. She startles Meg's mother by reassuring her of the existence of a tesseract--a sort of "wrinkle" in space and time. It is through this wrinkle that Meg and her companions will travel through the fifth dimension in search of Mr. Murry.
And then there were none the book and the movie were alright and the movie version of a wrinkle in time were ok but they did have differences. I mainly found small differences in A wrinkle in time and with that being said most of my differences are going to be small. And then there were none had some bigger differences. One of them really just said hey the movie ends this way and that is that. Then it skips over some stuff in a wrinkle in time.
In the movie productions of And Then There Were None and A Wrinkle in Time, the directors did not follow the original storyline. The changes made in the films caused a great impact on the story. In both films, the introduction and finale were different compared to the book. The two movies also strayed away from sequence and details. All of which made the directors of the films depart from the original plot.
Isn’t it odd how Movies and books tend to differ from each other? Honestly, whether it be a scene added into the movie or another one completely left out (maybe due to time or the people who made the movie seeing the particular scene as not quite relevant to the plot.) Either way, i’ll be seeing to a particular book and the movie that came out because of it.
“Growing a Lady”, a look into the development of the female main characters in A Wrinkle in Time and The Secret Garden
Many stories and novels are created into films, but it is not easy. Stories often rely heavily on the narrator, but films don’t typically have one. While film gives you direct visuals, books give you the opportunity to make up your own; a film takes away your own visual interpretation. Also, film has certain limits, such as time, interaction with the imagination, and the need to collaborate with certain people. It is common for a book to film adaptation to have the downside of not having all of the details from the story, but it isn't the filmmaker's job to adapt the story word for word, they use their own vision. Sometimes, it is necessary for some things to be changed, maybe to “highlight new themes, emphasize
Have your ever wondered how similar a book and a movie are? The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, -written by L. Frank Baum and the movie The Wizard of Oz, directed by Victor Fleming, is a great example. There are a lot of major differences in the movie and the film. In the book, the Land of Oz is real, Dorothy actually goes to the Land of Oz unlike the movie, where it is all a dream. One of the most interesting change in the movie is the color of the shoes. In the book the shoes are silver while in the movie, they are red. Another difference is the introduction of the characters. The differences are extremely important, because they make the story more interesting and unique.
For example the bulb in the Aunty Em’s Emporium. In the book it says demigods are not allowed to have phones because monsters can track them, but the movie ignored that and changes it so Percy sees Medusa’s reflection through a phone case. In the book Sally gets left behind and then Hades returns her to her home, but in the movie Grover is left behind, which is inaccurate because he is supposed to be Percy’s protector. Also, Grover doesn’t get a searchers licence in the movie which is one of the reasons he goes on the quest in the first place. Another storyline change is that in the movie the pearls are not from the neriad instead the whole mission is about getting pearls from different places. In the movie it says based of the book “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” by Rick Riordan As you can see, the book is better because the whole storyline is present which makes it more
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle is a well known classic. It is a science fiction, fantasy novel that had its own adventure to tell by the most unexpected characters. I enjoyed this book full of adventure and mystery. It's inspiring and gives Meg a different outlook on life and those who can relate to Meg.
Recently there has been an increase in movie adaptations of popular books. Novels from new teen fiction to classics are finding their way on screen. When the public hears their favorite book is being brought to life by Hollywood, excitement swells inside them. When the movie is revealed however the fans are let down because the story line has been altered in some way. Sometimes the sequence of events is out of order, an awesome scene is eliminated , or the cast just does not live up the characters in the original. The audience is constantly disappointed. They can't understand why Hollywood would mess up a story that is literally written for them. While many people believe that directors and screenwriters are unjustified in altering the movie, they actually have many reasons for making changes in the adaptation.