101 Dalmatians: Is the Movie or Book Better?

Are books or movies more popular? Most people like to read books more than watch movies. Actually, directors are inspiring and often make movies from good books, because there is already an audience and a successful plot. In creating fiction books, the writers use narrative, description, dialogue, expression of thoughts, and figurative language, but the directors use pictures, modes of shooting, colors and contrasts, setting, props, costume, make-up, actors expressions, gestures, sound and editing. For example, examine the differences between 101 Dalmatians novel and adaptions. Both animated and live-action movies are based on Dodie Smith’s novel. Despite the fact that both movies are a successful adaption, but the animated version is superior. Because, the Pongo, who provider of the narrator’s voice, plot elements and the sequencing, and the character development.

The 101 Dalmatians original children’s novel is a story of warmth, humor, imagination, and suspense. It is written by Dodie Smith, with illustrations by Michael Dooling and published by Penguin Group in 1956. Disney adapted the 18 chapter novel into an animated film, directed by Clyde Geronimi, and Hamilton Luske with the story of the movie written by Bill Peet. The animated movie was released to theatres on 25 January 1961 as One Hundred and One Dalmatians. It became the tenth highest grossing film of 1961, and one of the studio's most popular films of the decade. It was re-issued to theatres four times, in 1969, 1979, 1985, and 1991. The 1991 re-issue was the twentieth highest earning film of the year for domestic earnings, and it was also adapted into a musical. The live-action film was written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Stephen Here. The film stars...

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...ruella comes to their house first time, Roger mocking Anita with the notorious Cruella de Vil song, and he remains to do this by playing the instrumentals loudly upstairs wanting to annoy Cruella. It’s this mischievousness that makes him more amusing to watch. While puppies watching the T.V show their expression on serial and depiction is superior to live-action movie.

In the Live-action movie, the dogs are obviously well-trained and make the puppies easier to project appeal. Pongo’s introductory scene of doing the morning chores and waking his owner had the similar opposite relationship as the original and was entertaining. Still, though, they lacked character besides giving names to characteristics and physical characteristics, which only worked for one scene. The Dalmatians in the animated original is apparently superior with better representation and deliveries.