Algernon: Comparing The Book And Movie

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In the movie, there are three acts that do overlap in ways in which they do not in the play. For example, in the movie, there are early cuts to Cecily at Jack's country house, but in the play, we do not meet her until Act Two. This shows that events from different acts, mostly Acts 1 and 2 are mixed together. The movie does lengthen certain scenes, probably to make the movie a bit longer than it otherwise might have been. For example, in the play, Aunt Augusta simply conducts her interrogation of Jack as a marriage prospect for Gwendolyn at Algernon's house, but in the film, it is turned into a much more formal and frightening affair, but in a comical way. Aunt Augusta asks Jack to come to her home the next day, and when he arrives, he passes

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