I was a young adult in the mid 1990’s when Clueless was released. Like most boys, I clearly remember seeing it for the first time because I had a huge crush on actress Alicia Silverstone who plays Cher in the film (O’Keefe, 1). At that time the film was contemporary, and it had a lot of success especially with teens. After viewing it over twenty-five years later, the 90’s seems like a different World that I can no longer relate to, but I have fond childhood memories of. I was completely unaware that the film Clueless was an adaptation to the Jane Austin novel Emma. As we had discussed in class the film Clueless basically takes its plot/ storyline, over the top, in your face characters and comedy directly from the novel Emma, how cool is that! …show more content…
As we progressed farther into the film the similarities and adaptations became more apparent until they were obvious. Clueless is the perfect contemporary example of a Jane Austin novel. The setting for Austin’s novels is the early 1800’s on the country side. In Emma Austin uses romance as her backdrop as she imaginatively tells the story of her larger than life characters. A major adaptation to the novel is the location and setting of the film, which is Beverly Hills in the 1990’s. This is a significant change from the rural countryside that we visualized when reading Emma and other Jane Austin novels. Although the adaptation is quite a jump from Austin’s novel, it remains true to the original idea of the novel, while updating it for modern viewing. In fact, the setting of Beverly Hills actually adds to the viewers opinion of the protagonist Cher by visually showing them how privileged she is and the advantages she has in life. The first few scenes of the film help to solidify this idea that Cher is not only privileged and atop her social hierarchy but also completely unaware of reality much like Emma. Writer and director of the film, Amy Heckerling, as well as actress Alicia Silverstone did a great job of exaggerating these qualities slightly past that of Emma’s in the Austin novel to match the setting of the film (O’Keefe,
Nothing is more American than the crossover appeal of products in the mass media; this appeal is what propelled the idea for the 1985 release of the film Clue, based on the Parker Brothers board game. Furthermore, in keeping with the game's theme, the film appeared in theaters across the country with different endings. With an ensemble cast of talented but little known actors—Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Lesley Ann Warren, Martin Mull, Madeline Kahn, Eileen Brennan and Michael McKean—Clue seemed like a film destined to slip into obscurity. After all, it was a comedy, clever but crass. A deeper analysis of the film provides some insight into a running commentary that presents not just a murder mystery involving several comedic characters, but rather a complex allegorical situation that presents characters as archetypal figures for repressed forces in the dominant American ideology. In reality, Clue is a film about the crisis of the upper class white male in American culture.
The book Hoot and the movie Hoot are very alike and very different. Some people like them both but some people only like one, or neither.
Have you ever read a book and then watched the movie and saw many differences? Well you can also find lots of similarities. In the book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the movie “Tom and Huck” there are many similarities and differences having to do with the characters personalities, the setting, the characters relationships with one another and the events that take place.
There are usually differences in two different versions of something. This can often be seen when a book is made into a movie. There are many similarities and differences in the book and movie versions of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Emma Woodhouse of the Jane Austen novel Emma, is part of the rich, upscale society of a well off village in nineteenth century England, while Cher Horowitz the main character of the movie version Clueless, lives in the upscale Beverly Hills of California. The Woodhouse family is very highly looked upon in Highbury, and Cher and her father are also viewed as the cultural elite. The abuse of power and wealth, arrogance, and a lack of acceptance all prove that the class status of these families plays a significant role in the shaping of both the novel and the video.
As most everyone knows, there are differences between a book and it’s movie adaptation. This is applicable to the book and it’s movie counterpart To Kill a Mockingbird, as well. But aside from the differences, there are also similarities between these two.
Amy Heckerling’s movie Clueless focuses on an upper middle class 16-year-old girl, Cher, who lives in a nice neighborhood with her father and stepbrother, Josh. Cher and her friend, Dionne, take in a new girl, Tai, to help her fit into their high school. All of the major characters in the movie are in adolescence, which ranges from 10-19 years of age. In adolescence, teenagers undergo cognitive and emotional development. According to Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory, adolescents are in formal operational period from 11-20 years of age. During this period, adolescents develop abstract thinking and rational decision making. They experience two aspects of adolescent egocentrism, imaginary audience
Fahrenheit 451 is one of Ray Bradbury’s most famous work that not only showed what he believes will happen in the future but it shows symbolism throughout the book. The movie and the book had both negative and positive comments. Overall, both the book and the movie had the same storyline. To start off there are not only differences in the events but there are many differences in the characters. First, in the movie: When Montag was reading the poem to Mildred and her friends he did not yet meet Faber, however in the book he meet Faber long before, as a matter of fact Faber was never brought up in the movie. Not only is Faber missing so is the Mechanical Hound, it never shows up which end. Making the movie have missing scenes such as when Montag
The novel “The Sign of the Four”, written by Arthur Conan Doyle is about Sherlock Holmes and his partner, Watson. The book follows them throughout their adventures, however, only the beginning will be discussed. What could possibly have sparked much interest in Doyle’s works that film adaptations from 1954-2010 by various movie directors? Was it the resolute mindset of Sherlock Holmes? Was it his uncanny detective work? His professional use of drugs? Or perhaps was it his ideology? Such beginnings are what writers like K.M. Weiland excels in; to craft an irresistible lure for their audience of fish. Doyle’s book introduces us to a multitude of questions and concerns, which according to Tim O’Brien is meant to “not explain or to resolve, but
In this scene, a Mad Rabid dog, named Tim Johnson, comes through the streets of a the town of Maycomb.
...rs, which have been hidden behind formalities throughout the entire novel. It is interesting that at Box Hill, the group does not socialize as a unit, rather they break off into little groups. This shows that much of their friendship has been circumstantial; they all banded together when they were in their residence area, yet once they had ventured to an outside location, these formal ties no longer held them together. The emotions of each individual and the group dynamics became clearer once they were taken out of their regular routine. The novel is about the education of Emma Woodhouse, and Box Hill represents the climax of her education, where she learns about her own passions, and discovers her own faults and misconceptions. The day at Box Hill is the point at which all that Jane Austen has been climbing toward throughout the novel, reaches it's climax.
it shows us his feet only, this shows he would be good at dancing and
Into the Wild, a novel written by Jon Krakauer, as well as a film directed by Sean Penn, talks about Chris McCandless, a young individual who set out on a journey throughout the Western United States, isolating himself from society, and more importantly, his family. During his travels, he meets a lot of different people, that in a way, change his ways about how he sees the world. There are many characteristics to describe McCandless, such as “naïve”, “adventurous”, and “independent”. In the book, Krakauer described McCandless as “intelligent”, using parts in his book that show McCandless being “intelligent”. While Krakauer thinks of McCandless as being “intelligent”, Penn thinks of McCandless as a more “saintly” type of person.
The book, "Being There," is about a man named Chance, who is forced to move out of the house he lived in his whole life and his experience in the outside world. Based on the success of the book, the movie, "Being There," was made. The author of the book, Jerzy Kosinski, also wrote the screenplay for the movie. I think the major difference between the book and the movie is that in the book, we get to read what Chance is feeling and thinking, but in the movie, we only get to see his actions.
In Jane Austen’s social class and coming of age novel, Emma, the relationships between irony, insight and education are based upon the premise of the character of Emma Woodhouse herself. The persona of Emma is portrayed through her ironic and naive tone as she is perceived as a character that seems to know everything, which brings out the comedic disparities of ironies within the narrative. Emma is seen as a little fish in a larger pond, a subject of manipulating people in order to reflect her own perceptions and judgments. Her education is her moral recognition to love outside her own sheltered fancies and her understandings of her society as a whole.